Nebraska Coach Search - 2025 version

TGHusker

TGHusker

Heisman Trophy Winner
This post is kind of a preemptive strike against being shocked 😲🤯if he leaves:

OK, might as well start this - so much buzz about Rhule going to PSU. Hopefully this will die with PSU hiring someone else.
But as someone said in another post, He did not say he wasn't interested in the PSU job or that he was going to stay at Nebraska after
this season. He just talked about building this program and he loved Lincoln. Let the speculation fly.

Hopefully his lack of clarity is to force enough nervousness in the minds of boosters whereby they pony up more money for NIL. In today's world, it takes lot of money to get the 'joes' to win a NC.





I would hate to see him leave and take a lot of the talent with him and stop the momentum that is being built. This team needs long term stability.

But I must ask: if he left, who do you think would be a good fit to build on the foundation he has built thus far?
 
Eric Morris - North Texas
Alex Golesh - South Florida
Scott Satterford - Cincinnati

Figure out how to keep Eckler. I love Dana, but he ain’t staying.

Build the NIL war chest.
 
gobiggergoredder said:
I just don’t think he has it in him anymore.
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Possibly. But that doesn't seem like it's really the case much. Not sure who else has had success as a HC, got dropped to a coordinator then didn't want to go back to being the top guy again.

Also, the easiest transition back would be where you've already been around the program for a year-and-a-half.
 
Mavric said:
Possibly. But that doesn't seem like it's really the case much. Not sure who else has had success as a HC, got dropped to a coordinator then didn't want to go back to being the top guy again.

Also, the easiest transition back would be where you've already been around the program for a year-and-a-half.
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I’m not opposed to it. I bet he could assemble a solid staff. I’m certain he knows what it would take.

He’d just have to decide if he has it.
 
Red Five said:
Since we are dealing in 100% hypotheticals

Zac Taylor
Kalen DeBoer
Lane Kiffin
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Zac Taylor would be really intriguing. But ... another star Nebraska QB comes back to coach - sounds like we've done that dance before. However, I think Zac would be a much better coach plus he could bring NFL caliber coaches with him. Not sure how many NFL coaches would be interested in today's college football world where it is kind of like the wild west with the portal.

I really liked Zac - perhaps the best all-around QB since Eric Crouch. Not a great runner like Taylor Martenez but a very good floor general. If Zac had better people around him (SUH's defense for example a couple of years later), he may have ended up as all time top 5-7 QB at Nebraska. Very smart QB.
 
I think it's dumb to have this conversation right now but you guys do you.

If he were to leave, it wouldn't be until after the season and we have a lot of good to discuss between now and after the next 7+ games.

I'm annoyed that this will overshadow the conversations at several schools the rest of the year but, at least our guy is good enough to be in the conversation I guess.
 
As this writer notes, to keep Rhule, NU may need to spend more on NIL and do the stadium renovation.

www.si.com

Matt Rhule's Most Interesting Comment Monday Wasn't About Penn State

LINCOLN—Matt Rhule expressing his love for Penn State and the Nittany Lions AD, before diving into how much he also loves Nebraska and living in Lincoln, is car
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Rhule dove into the investment at Nebraska.

"The thing I've always said, we have to be unabashed. You can't always worry about the optics of everything. It's a really hard time in higher education; there's cuts. There's all these different things," Rhule said.

"But athletics here are a separate entity. We're not taking money from the university."

This appears to be contradictory to what Nebraska athletics director Troy Dannen said in August, when giving an update on the renovation of Memorial Stadium.

"We’re not going to take anything to the board for their approval, and I don’t know when we will," Dannen said. "The time is not now. In the midst of what I would almost level some degree of crisis on campus. Now is not the time to debut a big capital project."

Nebraska had begun plans and revealed renderings of a proposed stadium renovation under then-AD Trev Alberts. When that plan was first unveiled in 2023, the estimated cost was $450 million.

It would appear Rhule wants that plan to move forward. He would also like more investment into the roster.
"In a world of $30 and $40 million rosters, which isn't going away, I'd like us to do the same thing," Rhule said. "There's sort of like a, 'Hey, that's not really the Nebraska way.' I'd like it to be. I'd like to invest. I'd like to be at the front of everything

"We have a history here at being at the forefront in investing. I just don't want to stop that. I want to be the absolute best at it. I think we can be a perennial, one of the best teams in the country."
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Red Five said:
Since we are dealing in 100% hypotheticals

Zac Taylor
Kalen DeBoer
Lane Kiffin
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There’s one name and one name only I want. Rhule is going back home, it’s time for us to bring someone back home too.

And that someone is Lane. He’s matured into the man we need. Someone with flair, charisma and a dash of offensive genius.

Zac Taylor doesn’t have college coaching experience, don’t want him. Kalen isn’t leaving bama this early. Lane is realistic for the right price and someone who can run with what Rhule has built. Realistically speaking, lane might be one of the few hires that would keep us in the good graces of the raiola mafia which is huge because that seems to be all that matters around these parts these days
 
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