Iowa - What Did We Learn

lo country said:
What kills me is Rhule knew in 2023 at the earliest or 2024 at the latest that Ty and Nash were gone. So you start finding guys to replace them ASAP. Develop, get them in the weight room, used to the playbook, calls etc....It's like they left last year and he was shocked....

Another thing with PSU and Urban Meyer, Kraft did not continue interviewing as he had not coached in the era of NIL/Transfer Portal and Kraft felt that was a hard thing to overcome or learn on the fly. Maybe Rhule and Co are learning on the fly. Who on the staff coached in this era?
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This is a good point but also you can go to 4 man fronts if the 3 man isn’t working. They could have switched up their base defense to what they did better. They didn’t have to run the same thing every week knowing the strengths of the teams they were playing.
 
FrankWheeler said:
This is a good point but also you can go to 4 man fronts if the 3 man isn’t working. They could have switched up their base defense to what they did better. They didn’t have to run the same thing every week knowing the strengths of the teams they were playing.
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I'll try to find it, but allegedly Rhule is a big 3-3-5 fan. Ran the 3-3-5 with Phil Snow at Baylor. Brought it with him to NU. Hint-The Big 12 and B1G are noting alike....Butler is a 4-3 guy. (did run some 3-4)...So Rhule a) made the easy hire by promoting him instead of looking around and b)Butler running a scheme not his. This is much like the rumor (unsure if true) of Dana running Satts play book....

I fear we are stuck with this crap show.
 
Common theme here is were running schemes we do not have the talent to run. We are trying to run a form of a passing attack, without pass blocking line. We are running a defense scheme we don't have the linebackers to support. Good coaching staffs adapt their style to talent on the roster.
 
Nebhawk said:
Common theme here is were running schemes we do not have the talent to run. We are trying to run a form of a passing attack, without pass blocking line. We are running a defense scheme we don't have the linebackers to support. Good coaching staffs adapt their style to talent on the roster.
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I mean, EJ did run all over them today, so...
 
Go get an up and coming coach. Someone with some energy and relevance to todays football player. Find a winner at a lesser school, who has won everywhere they have coached. This is who Cignetti is and will be. He has won everywhere. Quit hiring has been, irrelevant, past there prime coaches. Get rid of Dana, who really has never had tremendous long lasting success anywhere. Get rid of your D coord. Find up and coming coaches with fire and passion to learn and succeed on a daily basis. We keep hiring guys who think that their way, is the only way.
 
SuperBigFan69 said:
I mean, EJ did run all over them today, so...
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Missed my point and I worded wrong. We have a good rushing team, but seem to want to pass more than run when we need too. We have good run blocking, but chose to pass more. EJ is tremendous, and if I were him, would not play in a bowl game, but get ready for draft. We just can not pass protect or our WR can't get separation. One of those two.
 
lo country said:
What kills me is Rhule knew in 2023 at the earliest or 2024 at the latest that Ty and Nash were gone. So you start finding guys to replace them ASAP. Develop, get them in the weight room, used to the playbook, calls etc....It's like they left last year and he was shocked....

Another thing with PSU and Urban Meyer, Kraft did not continue interviewing as he had not coached in the era of NIL/Transfer Portal and Kraft felt that was a hard thing to overcome or learn on the fly. Maybe Rhule and Co are learning on the fly. Who on the staff coached in this era?
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Rhule fancies himself a CEU- so it’s not like he’s actually knows anything about the roster- unless the name is Raiola.

He should be fired for thinking he could come into lincoln, during a rebuild, and kick his feet up and talk. And then talk more
 
Nebraska as a whole, administration, coaches and players did not handle the Penn St rumor mill very well. First off, Rhule never did come out and put any of this to rest. The university just handed out more money without really checking on ROI. The players looked like this completely deflated them Minnesota game week and game. That for me was our worst loss. Getting beat by Penn St and Iowa were not pleasant, but they had the better teams on the talent side. This season turned after that spell, and honestly with Dylan's injury and the Penn St rumorville, no one gave any real assurance of the future.
 
Opinions vary on recruiting, but I feel you have to invest a certain percentage of your roster to HS players and developing them, even if you risk them moving on. Next you have to identify portal players who can make impacts from the start. A good percentage of the portal players don't have enough talent or they would be staying at places like Alabama and Georgia and playing. Might they be an upgrade over what we have, maybe, but more than likely they just are not big time players. I don't think we develop our rosters very well and thus we have no depth. Watching Georgia, and an offensive lineman came out, and a RS freshmen came in a they did not miss a beat. Development.
 
If we truly have all this money and booster backing, why don't we offer Urban Meyer all the money we have for a 3-5 year contract and get this thing turned around? Once it gains some steam, many will come here to coach. Simple is it not?
 
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