Matt Rhule to stay at Nebraska

Matter of opinion.

Temple was on their 3rd conference in 3 years and Matt being their 3rd coach in the same time frame. They have played football since 1894 and Matt delivered their best 2 year stretch in history in years 3 and 4. Those 2 years were, and still are, the only 10 win seasons the teams has had in 131 years of playing football.

Baylor has been playing football since 1899 and in year 3 Matt delivered their 5th 10+ win season going 11-3. The success Baylor had in 2014 and 2015 under Art Briles was completely ruined by the scandal with most players leaving and Jim Grobe's 1 year stint did nothing to fix the program. Context matters.

You can choose the ignore the facts but it doesn't change that he was one of, if not the best coaches at each of those schools. I think it is worth having some patience here to see if he can do similar.
You are still ignoring that someone else laid a winning foundation in the years leading up to Rhule, both schools had winning records. You can talk about context, well actually look at the 3 year recent history before Rhule. That means way more than the 100 years before that. There is lots of turnover every coaching change, scandal or not. All I am saying is Matt is not some master program builder like the narrative suggests He is a very solid coach who does great at stabilizing programs in flux. He is probably the best we can hope to have at this point, no arguments there. He also has a history of not being able to win games above what is expected, being 2-23 in ranked games and 0-18 since going 2-5 in them at Temple. Yes he might have been one of the best coaches record wise at those schools, but the comment I responded to was that they were the most TERRIBLE schools in history, going 1-11 every year before he showed up. That is simply not true and I provided you the data showing that. For 100 years? Ok, fair, you can have that W but recent history means much more than a century.
 
With the current job openings Nebraska has no choice but to do this if for anything stability purposes. Nebraska isn't a destination job right now whether any of us want to admit that or not. We can't compete with PSU, LSU, Florida, etc job openings right now.
The governor of Louisiana says hold my beer. I’d say any coaching job looks better than LSU right now.
 


Would have been better if he did this


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You are still ignoring that someone else laid a winning foundation in the years leading up to Rhule, both schools had winning records. You can talk about context, well actually look at the 3 year recent history before Rhule. That means way more than the 100 years before that. There is lots of turnover every coaching change, scandal or not. All I am saying is Matt is not some master program builder like the narrative suggests He is a very solid coach who does great at stabilizing programs in flux. He is probably the best we can hope to have at this point, no arguments there. He also has a history of not being able to win games above what is expected, being 2-23 in ranked games and 0-18 since going 2-5 in them at Temple. Yes he might have been one of the best coaches record wise at those schools, but the comment I responded to was that they were the most TERRIBLE schools in history, going 1-11 every year before he showed up. That is simply not true and I provided you the data showing that. For 100 years? Ok, fair, you can have that W but recent history means much more than a century.
There was no winning foundation. You can be unhappy with the guy while still recognizing what he has done and why he was hired.

October 2016, the scandal at Baylor is fully reported.... football programs falls apart at exactly the same time. Do you remember how bad that was... sanctions, all recruits bailing, players leaving. It doesn't get much worse.
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Not sure what you are talking about regarding Temple. They were 4-7 the year before Matt took over. It was an ugly season where they lost 4 of their last 5. On top of taking over a bad football team, Rhule had to help navigate the change in conference to the AAC.

The two rebuilds are impressive on all accounts.
 
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