Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
We will always have those two 7-6 seasons to remember him by.
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Husker_In_WI
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I do think the start of a new bowl streak is something worth remembering. But not exactly the heights either side envisioned when he committed here.
Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
Just want to confirm this observation is both sad and sarcastic.
admo
Heisman Trophy Winner
Need 2 quality guards to replace Rocco & Lutovsky.
A RT would also help a lot.
Need 2 big & experienced DT
Need some bigger stronger Big Ten LBs.
Need a 230 lb RB that can move a pile on short yardage & goal line.
Put all the money on big tough experienced guys and watch what happens.
A RT would also help a lot.
Need 2 big & experienced DT
Need some bigger stronger Big Ten LBs.
Need a 230 lb RB that can move a pile on short yardage & goal line.
Put all the money on big tough experienced guys and watch what happens.
Dr. Strangelove
All-Conference
I don't disagree with this, but we all have to acknowledge:
The Matt Rhule experiment is a disaster. The "program builder" and "player developer" has a roster full of bad underclassmen who apparently are nowhere close to filling the many, many gaps on the roster.
Instead, we're going into Rhule year 4 and they have to buy a new QB, a entire RB room, a completely new LOS, and possibly a LB corps just to hopefully make a bowl game in 2026.
Extending Matt Rhule and announcing it before the schedule got hard was weak. It signaled they had no confidence in the team over the last 4 games of the season (for good reason). But it begs the question, if they had no confidencein the team, why extend him at all?
BigRedBuster
International Man of Mystery
Replace Matt Rhule with Fred Hoiberg in this post three years ago. Now, Fred is looking like a great coach with a program that is a major talk nationally for good reasons. He’s in his seventh year.
What happened over that time? Fred was able and willing to keep working, adjusting, making changes. The last 2.5 years we have started to see the fruits of sticking with him.
Everyone wants a coach to come in and win instantly. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes, that can take longer. The important things:
1) Is the coach willing to make changes?
2) Are good players wanting to play for him?
3) Does he keep improving his staff?
4) Does he represent the program well?
5) Do better coaches still want to come work for him?
To me, Rhule checks all of those. Yes, there were assistants that didn’t work out. Sucks, but oh well. But, he’s willing to make the changes and keep trying.
I’m a firm believer that to often, head coaches are fired way to soon and not given the opportunity to keep building and programs are stuck with huge pay outs and not better results because they are stuck in a never ending circle. (Look at Nebraska football the last 15 years). If used to be the norm that you saw coaches stay at programs for a long time and work through adversity. I think this is where Nebraska needs to be right now.
I don’t have a problem with the extension and how it was written.
The problem is/was that the skill sets you placed between quotation marks is a quickly diminishing value. While a coach needs to establish a vision for the program and some development should occur, on the field its increasingly more about scheme and talent acquisition. I'm not saying Rhule can't succeed, but the game has quickly changed from his pre-Carolina days. Since he's self-admittedly not an Xs and Os guy (and it shows), he really needs to hit big on selecting the right coaching and player talent.
Most competent thing I have read on this board in a while.
