New ST Coach Mike Ekeler

[lo country]

if ek wants to leave what should rhule do to keep him here? he has been offered top$ to stay. should matt tie him up and keep him in the basement at memorial?

Let him help coach LB’s?

 

[Decked]

Ekeler is the best assistant coach on this staff. You give him whatever he wants. Unfortunately, he may just want to win at a higher level.

 

[default_28]

Ekeler is the best assistant coach on this staff. You give him whatever he wants. Unfortunately, he may just want to win at a higher level.

I’m not really trying to argue, but while agree that he is the best assistant on the staff as a special teams coordinator, we don’t know that that is true about him coaching special teams and linebackers. If what he wants is to coach linebackers, do you pull the trigger and fire Dvoracek and possible Simpson to keep him happy?

 

[LumberJackSker]

I'm not exactly Rhule's biggest fan but what else can you do but offer him the best contract in the country and hope he stays? If he leaves that sucks but there are other coaches out there that are good, they don't have to be from nebraska.

 

[Huskerfollower4life]

I'm not exactly Rhule's biggest fan but what else can you do but offer him the best contract in the country and hope he stays? If he leaves that sucks but there are other coaches out there that are good, they don't have to be from nebraska.

Very true but is Matt Rhule capable of finding a great special teams coach that has Ekeler's pedigree and results this late in the game I doubt it. Matt Rhule struggled to find a d-tackle coach this year.

 

[The Dude]

Very true but is Matt Rhule capable of finding a great special teams coach that has Ekeler's pedigree and results this late in the game I doubt it. Matt Rhule struggled to find a d-tackle coach this year.

He already said he'd promote from within and continue running the system Ekeler taught them.

 

[Husker_Power]

He already said he'd promote from within and continue running the system Ekeler taught them.

Josh Martin would be promoted.

 

[swmohusker]

We need will Compton to find us another special teams coach. Or maybe he could just do it.

 

[Decked]

I’m not really trying to argue, but while agree that he is the best assistant on the staff as a special teams coordinator, we don’t know that that is true about him coaching special teams and linebackers. If what he wants is to coach linebackers, do you pull the trigger and fire Dvoracek and possible Simpson to keep him happy?

I don't see why he couldn't help out or do more there. I would absolutely move one of them for Ekeler.

 

[Husker_In_WI]

Ekeler is the best assistant coach on this staff. You give him whatever he wants. Unfortunately, he may just want to win at a higher level.

Then why did he leave a Tennessee team coming off of a playoff appearance to come here? I'm sure he has his priorities and reasons and none of them are my business, but his coaching career as a whole is just a series of head scratching moves mixed with some obvious ones.

 

[ZRod]

Let him help coach LB’s?

This is the way.

 

[Decked]

Then why did he leave a Tennessee team coming off of a playoff appearance to come here? I'm sure he has his priorities and reasons and none of them are my business, but his coaching career as a whole is just a series of head scratching moves mixed with some obvious ones.

Thought he had come here originally to be closer to family. Maybe those circumstances have changed?

 

[Hilltop]

Very true but is Matt Rhule capable of finding a great special teams coach...

He is the one who brought him here last year, right? That would seem to prove his capability to me.

 

[Decked]

He is the one who brought him here last year, right? That would seem to prove his capability to me.

Will Compton was the one who basically brought him here. Matt hasn't exactly made the best hires. I think this is a valid assessment.

 

[Crusader Husker]

There must be something he wants? I am not saying it's hookers and blow. I mean, this isn't the 80's. But....