Matt Rhule to stay at Nebraska

Hilltop said:
The timeouts at the time felt weird but if you listened to the post game they made more sense. He had an 18 year old under center in a huge game who was confused. As we saw, every drive mattered in that game.
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And it mattered that he made the worst of the three possible decisions while wasting a needed timeout after he had already wasted a different timeout that quarter
 
RedDenver said:
I actually think Rhule does fine with game management and it's the fans that need help understanding that area.
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Not wasting timeouts is a part of game management. He did terrible with that. Using them far too often on defense early in half’s. Plus last nights debacle. I think knowledgeable fans understand this.
 
Archy1221 said:
Not wasting timeouts is a part of game management. He did terrible with that. Using them far too often on defense early in half’s. Plus last nights debacle. I think knowledgeable fans understand this.
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His timeouts were fine. The goal is not preserve as many timeouts for the end of the game as possible, which seems to be what fans think. It's far more useful to call a timeout when your team is confused about a call or look like they are about to give up a big play due to alignment than the hope that the timeout could potentially help preserve clock at the end.

Regardless, it didn't matter in this game because we had the ball with enough time to score at the end and a timeout still remaining.
 
Crusader Husker said:
The people who get frustrated with MR, must have already forgotten what the Scott Frost era was like.
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It's not that for me. I remember Bo being fired. Then Riley was going to fix...Then Frost....Now Rhule.. I can't look past Rhule because of the past 8 years that we have wandered in the desert prior to his arrival. To see some, not all, of the same issues. And it's frustrating. Cig adds fuel to the fire. BUT he was a proven winner every stop. Just he is now winning at Indiana. That's the part that's hard to get past. And it's in the B1G. Team that whooped is last year and we have them next year. And some folks were like, but just wait until next year. And here we are year 2 and way laying teams again. With another portal QB. Yes Rhule deserves time, but we are on year 11 while he is in year 3....
 
Both of these posts tell the story. MR # 1 was average at best. Mike Riley was a known .500 coached when he came here.
MR# 2 has had no success against top programs. Matt Rhule's record speaks for itself. Now one could say that he lost many of those games during the year 1 & 2 rebuilds, however, the trend continues into year 3 and he doesn't stay long enough at one place to prove that he can eventually win consistently vs top 25 teams. Past Performs Predicts Future Performance - unless there is a new element inserted into the formula - new element could be new OC, new OL, more NIL to build up both lines, etc.
lo country said:
It's not that for me. I remember Bo being fired. Then Riley was going to fix...Then Frost....Now Rhule.. I can't look past Rhule because of the past 8 years that we have wandered in the desert prior to his arrival. To see some, not all, of the same issues. And it's frustrating. Cig adds fuel to the fire. BUT he was a proven winner every stop. Just he is now winning at Indiana. That's the part that's hard to get past. And it's in the B1G. Team that whooped is last year and we have them next year. And some folks were like, but just wait until next year. And here we are year 2 and way laying teams again. With another portal QB. Yes Rhule deserves time, but we are on year 11 while he is in year 3....
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HuskerNation1 said:
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lo country said:
It's not that for me. I remember Bo being fired. Then Riley was going to fix...Then Frost....Now Rhule.. I can't look past Rhule because of the past 8 years that we have wandered in the desert prior to his arrival. To see some, not all, of the same issues. And it's frustrating. Cig adds fuel to the fire. BUT he was a proven winner every stop. Just he is now winning at Indiana. That's the part that's hard to get past. And it's in the B1G. Team that whooped is last year and we have them next year. And some folks were like, but just wait until next year. And here we are year 2 and way laying teams again. With another portal QB. Yes Rhule deserves time, but we are on year 11 while he is in year 3....
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The problem for Rhule and all P5 coaches is that Cignetti has now set a new standard of expectations. With NIL and the Portal, the runway for a new coach to make significant changes has gotten much shorter. With all the resources that Rhule has had at his disposal, I honestly think anything under 9 wins in his first season is a disappointment, especially when you factor in we have the easiest conference schedule since joining the BIG and avoid Oregon, OSU and Indiana. I will let the rest of the season play out, but if we end up 7-5 or worse, it will have been a huge disappointment in Year 3 of Rhule.
 
The one ounce of grace I will give Rhule is that he tried to "do it right," by the kids and the state and the culture. He tried to double down and keep the Frost kids in the program and pour into development as much as possible. He tried to honor the "word" the program gave those kids and not leave them out hanging in the wind. I respect that, and, at the time, I think for a guy who is a huge "development," guy, that was the way to go. Let us not forget the Deion route that we all were blasting when so many of the previous recruits were sent packing and the entire world was raising eyebrows at that method. Complete opposite of the way Rhule handled it. As much as I would prefer the wins that may have come from that type of plan, I would rather us be able to hold our heads up proud that we didn't do a bunch of kids dirty. You add to that the MASSIVE cluster that NIL has been even over the past 18 months. Nebraska, in a true Nebraska way, tried to play a smart, conservative, "middle ground," game in that arena. Honestly, that is who we are as a program and state, so, I won't even fault them too much for that.

I will not Monday morning quarterback the way he has directed this program thus far and I will not expect him to be perfect in all decisions all the time. This was an albatross of a turn around needed and thousands of decisions needed made, so I'll allow some grace for a few misses here and there. That said, we are seemingly at another crossroads with him. I think we have some glaring coaching holes and we need dudes and we need to get the dudes into the program straight away. The early returns on NIL go big or go home are showing it for exactly what it is, and we need to go big if we want to be big. It is not the time in the evolution of college football that any boxes get left unchecked. Conservative won't make anybody happy, leave every card you have on the table and pray it's enough to allow you to be one of the schools that gets over this hump. Honestly, we are in a lot better position than a lot of huge programs as we sit right now, gotta seize it. Rhule has shown he is willing to course correct, we are a couple of course corrects and dollar bills away now.
 
I have seen a lot of people complaining about the time out usage. I will absolutely agree that MR does not have good in-game management and decision making is questionable (but tell me a coach that isn't questioned)..... but his usage of time outs DID NOT COST US THE GAME Saturday. I got so tired of call in show hosts and callers who kept harping on this. We got the ball back with plenty of time. In fact, after we failed on 4th down, I believe that there was approximately 1:47 or so left, with a time out. IF we pick up the first down, we have 1:40, plus a time out to go down the field. That is an eternity in football. The lack of time outs was no a factor. Could it have been , yes, but the way it played out it wasn't.
 
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