The Dude

How on earth is it Purdue's ball???? The call on the field makes no sense at all.

There's no question the offense is bad. But you should have realized how bad it was a month and a half ago instead of just coming to the realization now. How is this still surprising people? Look, I'm a fan of Casey, but even if he tried everything to keep Casey, Casey would still be the injury case he's always been and we'd very likely still be rolling with Haarberg.

4-1 since moving on from Sims. People still arguing for him to play either have suspicious motives or didn't watch the first 2 games at all.

The output from, say, offensive line and receiver positions have been about what you should expect if you hire position coaches who haven't demonstrated they know how to do the job. I get that Rhule has done this at other places, to varying degrees of success, but he has the resourses to hire the best position coaches money can buy now, so there's really no good excuse. Of course people are going to be more skeptical of the more questionable hires. It's kind of on those coaches to prove the skeptics wrong. So far I don't really see that happening. Might as well shut down the message board if laypeople can't have opinions.

He isn't exactly proving them wrong.

It's good people are now getting mad about ugly wins against bad teams, instead of getting mad about close losses to bad teams. Trending the right way. We'll be mad about 10 wins again in no time.

Wild people can get themselves worked up about the offense every week. We know going in to every game the offense is going to be lame. It's an easy prediction to make. And it's like maybe 2% Satterfield's fault. You'd suck too with this roster and questionable assistant coach hires/retention. Rhule did him no favors by making several headscratching decisions.

Grant's fumble issues arose this season, though. Seems like he's been coached in the wrong direction.

Haarberg faked me the hell out on that zone read. And Illinois.

Need a 8 minute drive and points in the 3rd.

Maybe don't hire a 6-year-old to coach your wide receivers.

And, Casey Thompson has explicitly stated he never wanted to leave Nebraska. I'm not accusing Rhule of deliberately sabotaging the season to make future seasons looked better by comparison. It's not like that's been his gimmick his entire career or anything like that.

The problem with boasting about "top 25 recruiting rankings" all the time is they mostly consist of 3-star players who aren't very good. Recruiting (still) needs a gigantic boost, and I (still) feel anyone who disagrees isn't watching the on-field product at all.

Cocaine addiction in most cases. The way he talks during the little in-game interviews is highly suspect as well. He basically transforms into Jack Black's character in Tropic Thunder during football games.

That obscene thing Rhule does with his tongue should be a fireable offense.

Rhule needs to be investigated. I dunno. Find a reason. Plant some evidence. This ain't it.

Great. Glad to gave your approval.

Which means it's not legit.

I expected our defense to be legit.

Why is Michigan's smashmouth offense so effective in an era where it couldn't possibly work because the linebackers are too fast or whatever excuse?

I am glad that Rhule is essentially modeling his offense off of what Michigan does. I just wish he had a track record of being good at it or having a buddy who is good at it.

Sure it does. It seemed bad at the time, but we now know it wasn't nearly as bad as it seemed. Would Frost have been fired if he had Callahan's track record? Not a chance. Because that kind of outcome is far more palatable now.

It's all relative.

A top 5 recruiting class is unthinkable at this point. I thought my grandpa was crazy when he said he thought Callahan deserved more time after he was fired. But for a guy who lived through the 40s and 50s version of the Cornhuskers it makes perfect sense.