If The Only Things You Knew About the Illinois Game .....

What can you tell from the threads?

  • Huskers won big

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Huskers barely won

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Huskers lost in overtime

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • Huskers lost by one score (in regulation)

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • Huskers lost by two scores

    Votes: 2 8.7%

  • Huskers got blown out

    Votes: 19 82.6%
  • Total voters
    23
The Dude said:
Then who is the right guy?  It's insane that we can't appreciate any win we can get after the last coaching staff.
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How were the wins not appreciated? Why should we be celebrating 3 wins over trash programs when we haven't made a bowl in how ever many years. I think Rhule is the right guy, I just don't think he gives a hoot about the things you think he gives a hoot about. If you think he doesn't feel appreciation from the fans I may have ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. These notions are ridiculous. Go look at any interview from him on YouTube and tell me he isn't appreciated. What more appreciation does he want for winning 3 games we should have won in the fashion we should have won them in before we even play a conference game? I mean seriously, what are you expecting? 

 
Fans sell out every game, stay to the end of every game, we love rhule comments everywhere, everyone on here high on Rhule and the Cornhuskers, everyone excited about the season after the first three games, getting national press and buzz, ranked after 3 games, people talking about playoffs THIS SEASON. Man, no one appreciated those wins at all. I just don't understand what appreciation is I guess.

I'm sorry we haven't built Rhule a statue yet. We should get right on that.

 
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Nebfanatic said:
How were the wins not appreciated? Why should we be celebrating 3 wins over trash programs when we haven't made a bowl in how ever many years. I think Rhule is the right guy, I just don't think he gives a hoot about the things you think he gives a hoot about. If you think he doesn't feel appreciation from the fans I may have ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. These notions are ridiculous. Go look at any interview from him on YouTube and tell me he isn't appreciated. What more appreciation does he want for winning 3 games we should have won in the fashion we should have won them in before we even play a conference game? I mean seriously, what are you expecting? 
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Blowout victories over those sorts of teams were far from a given before he arrived, and now you're acting like they don't count for anything.   Thanks for the case in point.

 
The Dude said:
Blowout victories over those sorts of teams were far from a given before he arrived, and now you're acting like they don't count for anything.   Thanks for the case in point.
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I'm not acting like they don't count for anything, I'm just not sure what you are expecting as far as appreciation. Plenty of comments about how wins like that haven't been the norm as of late and it's nice to win that way. Not sure where you were. Still not sure what else you expected as far as appreciation at this point in the season.

 
@The Dude 

Nebfanatic said:
Fans sell out every game, stay to the end of every game, we love rhule comments everywhere, everyone on here high on Rhule and the Cornhuskers, everyone excited about the season after the first three games, getting national press and buzz, ranked after 3 games, people talking about playoffs THIS SEASON. Man, no one appreciated those wins at all. I just don't understand what appreciation is I guess.

I'm sorry we haven't built Rhule a statue yet. We should get right on that.
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I also have to ask, what difference those 3 blowout wins make if we don't make a bowl game again? I'm glad you aren't coach Rhule because I imagine he is way less focused on instant gratification than you are. We are lucky to have him as our coach

 
Nebfanatic said:
@The Dude 

I also have to ask, what difference those 3 blowout wins make if we don't make a bowl game again? I'm glad you aren't coach Rhule because I imagine he is way less focused on instant gratification than you are. We are lucky to have him as our coach
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I don't think he's hyper focused on it (nor am I), he just seemed a bit annoyed in press conferences that he had to explain himself so much after blowing teams out.  And it wasn't super surprising to me Vegas suddenly had him as a favorite for the Flordia State job.  But to be fair, maybe I'm making connections I shouldn't be.  Maybe he has his agent putting out feelers for any number of reasons.  Or maybe the Vegas guys are just throwing s#!t on the wall.

I'm glad I'm not Nebraska's coach, too.  

 
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The Dude said:
  But to be fair, maybe I'm making connections I shouldn't be. 
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That part. Rhule isn't the guy to take his ball and go home because people aren't talking about him the way he wants. If Rhule walks the walk at all he doesn't care what anyone thinks or says to or about him because it's about him and his goals, not everybody else and what they have to say. 

I think this mentality is what will make Rhule the best coach we've had since TO. He gets it from a mental perspective.

 
Nebfanatic said:
That part. Rhule isn't the guy to take his ball and go home because people aren't talking about him the way he wants. If Rhule walks the walk at all he doesn't care what anyone thinks or says to or about him because it's about him and his goals, not everybody else and what they have to say. 

I think this mentality is what will make Rhule the best coach we've had since TO. He gets it from a mental perspective.
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I agree he's a not a take the ball and go home guy, he's a take the next better paycheck that comes along guy.  I think we'll pay him what's required for him to stay (within reason), but it certainly wouldn't hurt to make it a place coaches want to coach for reasons other than the money.

I know it's controversial, but maybe Husker Nation should cool it a bit.  If the Frost era didn't humble us, what on earth could?  There's no longer any such thing as "oh, those wins should have happened like that anyway".

 
Thing is, which power programs that have legit hopes of competing for a national championship isn't a pressure cooker? FSU's coach just went undefeated last year with an ACC championship and Vegas is already taking bets on its next coach? That ain't pressure?

 
Nebfanatic said:
If Rhule is expecting appreciation after 3 wins then he isn't the guy for the job. Lucky for us, I highly doubt he gives a crap about our appreciation for the 3 wins. 3 wins means nothing to Matt Rhule who understands all that matters is the next week until we get to the end of the season. Frankly if we lost 9 games straight after 3 blowout wins, who cares that we had them? I think Rhule cares about having a successful season more than getting appreciation for winning 3 winnable games. 

Also I'm sure he feels the appreciation when the fans sell out and stay to the end for every single game as he has talked about many times before.
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Exactly.  Plus he gets over $8 million of appreciation every year! 
 

I tend to believe Rhule is just fine with the fan base at this point. 

 
The Dude said:
I agree he's a not a take the ball and go home guy, he's a take the next better paycheck that comes along guy.  I think we'll pay him what's required for him to stay (within reason), but it certainly wouldn't hurt to make it a place coaches want to coach for reasons other than the money.

I know it's controversial, but maybe Husker Nation should cool it a bit.  If the Frost era didn't humble us, what on earth could?  There's no longer any such thing as "oh, those wins should have happened like that anyway".
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Cool what though? We are all appreciative of Rhule. Do you really think Florida State fans would be better? Or any big program in the nation for that matter? We are the most patient fan base I can think of. Rhule is no exception. 

Fans were excited to be winning by multiple scores. It doesn't mean questions can't be asked and frankly given the result they should have been asked.

If you are a D1 coach at a major program you should expect that. I promise Kirby Smart has to answer questions about mistakes in blowout wins too. It's the nature of the beast. I really don't understand your issue with the fanbase like at all.

 
Nebfanatic said:
What program that has had remotely similar success to us is more patient? I'll wait. 
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No program, because we're the only one who hasn't made a bowl game in 7 years.

Not sure what success your talking about.  Tom Osborne's success from the late 1900s?  Not relevant in 2024.  A lot of up and coming coaches have no recollection of that.

Patience isn't what gets 9-win coaches fired.

 
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