Cignetti/Whittingham vs. Rhule
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You know, "getting on board" would be a hell of a lot easier if Nebraska was mirroring Indiana's success.
Any attempt to put this on fans is complete BS. If the administration, boosters, coaches and staff are aligned - AND they have the right players - there will be success. Regardless of fan support.
We have been the most loyal fanbase in college sports forever, despite more than two decades of complete futility. Attempting to blame the fans because Rhule can't seem to find his a$$ as a coach with two hands and a flashlight is completely ridiculous.
Rhule has gotten a lot of fan vitriol this season. Most of it has been justified but he's gotten more grief from fans (at least here) than he probably deserves because of this year's unique Double-Wammy:
Wammy #1: Our downright embarrassing end-of-season. Wammy #2: Indiana's rise from the pits to make a run for the national championship while LOOKING like the team we all envisioned the Huskers to be by Rhule Year 3.
Wammy #1: Our downright embarrassing end-of-season. Wammy #2: Indiana's rise from the pits to make a run for the national championship while LOOKING like the team we all envisioned the Huskers to be by Rhule Year 3.
If we had lost the last three games by a combined 12 points or so, a little vitriol would still be there, but in far less quantities. Getting demolished, where the team just isn't physically capable of equaling our opponents? That's what, I think, so many Husker fans are so spitting nails mad at--myself included.
Cignetti has put together, in two seasons, the most dominant performance in the history of (short-lived) NCAA playoffs. Arguably the most dominant in the history of college D1 ball... if they demolish Miami and are this good again next year, it will cement it. We can all be envious... but his outsized aberration of a performance should not beg us to frame our coach, or any other, as "terrible, worthless, incompetent" or any other pejoratives that have been flung of late. There can only be one winner every year.
That there are fans, and funders, calling for Oregon's coach to be fired. for example, shows the sickness that pervades college football at a level at least as bad as the whole NIL mess.
That there are fans, and funders, calling for Oregon's coach to be fired. for example, shows the sickness that pervades college football at a level at least as bad as the whole NIL mess.
Talent is great, but I’d rather have all those 3 stars buying in completely to your program and working their asses off each play. Works for Cignetti.
Is the new trend to let other schools grow players and then another jumps in and benefits for a year or two? Let's see if the trend continues. Specifically the QB spot is where this happens the most.
Great behind the scenes video, I would encourage you to watch it all but I cued it up at the 6:28 mark to hear what Dennis LeBlanc says about Rhule.
