People always gripe on football-specific fansites, but I don't think the Husker gen pop turned on Scott Frost, Bo Pelini, or Bill Callahan as quickly or as angrily as they have on Matt Rhule in Game 7 of Season Three, which is roughly the place where they gave up on Mike Riley. A lot of the criticism is informed football analytics.
If Rhule lost his Penn State courtship and Nebraskans faith in the same game, that's one epic meltdown. He has every opportunity to win us back and at this point two more wins and no embarrassing losses might be enough to earn him another trip to the portal with a commitment to down linemen and a hot seat for the staff. A week ago I'd have said it's unthinkable Rhule's seat would be this hot this season. And we might never have an easier Big10 schedule.
Husker fans have been slammed for having too high expectations, but what's the option? Some yearn for Bo Pelini's 9 win consistency, but every one of those seven seasons ended with Nebraska barely ranked or unranked, irrelevant to college football and trending downward, and if you weren't around for that trust me -- no one was willing to accept that as the new status quo.
We may never have the 40 year run we once had -- maybe no one will -- but every now and then we should get to be Indiana or Vanderbilt or Arizona State or SMU or Missouri or Iowa State or even frikkin Minnesota.