Fire Matt, Fire Dana, get rid of Colandrea, 5-7, no bowl
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Eck and Aurich were on the same coaching staff in South Dakota. Bring Eck in and keep Aurich. May have to do a deep cleaning on Aurich to get the stench of Coach Matt off of him though.
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the deep cleaning... you just made me visualize Aurich getting power washed. "quit moving dammit, this is for your own good. we have to get that Rhule off you"
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There has got to be something else at play here. Something otherworldly is going on. The ways this team finds to implode is inexplicable.
I have a theory. It's the Bo Pelini Curse. Bo spent time at LSU. I think he became acquainted with Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen. Legend has it she lived in a swamp in a hollow log with a one-eyed snake and a three-legged dog. Mark paid her a visit after being dismissed by the University of Nebraska and asked for a favor. She acquiesced and the rest is history. This program needs to invite Mark and his brother Carl back to Memorial Stadium and honor them for the string of 9-win seasons accomplished under their leadership.
There is no other way to explain the unexplainable. There are lottery winners out there thinking "No, no way that just happened again. What are the odds? That is just crazy!"
I have a theory. It's the Bo Pelini Curse. Bo spent time at LSU. I think he became acquainted with Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen. Legend has it she lived in a swamp in a hollow log with a one-eyed snake and a three-legged dog. Mark paid her a visit after being dismissed by the University of Nebraska and asked for a favor. She acquiesced and the rest is history. This program needs to invite Mark and his brother Carl back to Memorial Stadium and honor them for the string of 9-win seasons accomplished under their leadership.
There is no other way to explain the unexplainable. There are lottery winners out there thinking "No, no way that just happened again. What are the odds? That is just crazy!"
Having processed last night for a few hours - I'll say this. Under Rhule - we've had good defenses 3 of the 4 years - largely because we had a really good "up and comer" DC. How Butler was brought in as the DC in waiting and Snow disrupted things....Rhule was overthinking the D.
Special teams - outside of last season with Eckler - have been bad. You would think Rhule would learn - oh a good special team coordinator matters. No - he hires 2 inexperienced analysts to run special teams that aren't even considered coaches on the staff (go look - their salaries are not part of the coaching staff roster). I suspected this would go poorly - and while it hasn't been a disaster - special teams are a liability this season as they were in years 1 and 2.
And finally....offense. It's been bad all 4 seasons. EJ made it look decent last season but really we've been a bad offensive team since Day 1 under Rhule and I think that is the core problem he has been unable to fix. Dana was a good short term solution when brought in but he's shown no ability to coach and call winning offensive football.
Rhule can do whatever he wants - I do think his game management is part of the issue as well - but this problem will take care of itself. If this continues (losing tougher games) he won't be here after next season. So do whatever you want Matt - but I'd say the body of work so far is saying you won't last past Year 5 regardless of the cost - the negativity will be too overwhelming to ignore. Heck - it might already be there.
Special teams - outside of last season with Eckler - have been bad. You would think Rhule would learn - oh a good special team coordinator matters. No - he hires 2 inexperienced analysts to run special teams that aren't even considered coaches on the staff (go look - their salaries are not part of the coaching staff roster). I suspected this would go poorly - and while it hasn't been a disaster - special teams are a liability this season as they were in years 1 and 2.
And finally....offense. It's been bad all 4 seasons. EJ made it look decent last season but really we've been a bad offensive team since Day 1 under Rhule and I think that is the core problem he has been unable to fix. Dana was a good short term solution when brought in but he's shown no ability to coach and call winning offensive football.
Rhule can do whatever he wants - I do think his game management is part of the issue as well - but this problem will take care of itself. If this continues (losing tougher games) he won't be here after next season. So do whatever you want Matt - but I'd say the body of work so far is saying you won't last past Year 5 regardless of the cost - the negativity will be too overwhelming to ignore. Heck - it might already be there.
Daikiel Shorts is our WR coach. His connection to DH goes back before Nebraska. Last night, as AC repeatedly scrambled, extending plays from 2.5 seconds to 5 seconds or more, our receivers couldn't help him out. Our WR blocking has gone down and someone applied Astralube to their gloves. I thought Nyziah Hunter was a very good blocker last year and a dependable and occassionally great option. He hasn't improved and the people in front of him don't appear to be as good as he was last year.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
I hate to see people throwing things on the field like that. Win or lose, I'd like to believe we're better than that.
I agree. It's just so sCUm like and I want our fans to be better than sCUm.
Unfortunately the objects being thrown onto the field was from the student section.
Not surprising to me that it would be from the student section. These days, seems like those attitudes are prevalent, no matter where you are from. Parents, I think, adopt the attitude of kids will be kids and hope they get it out of their system, grow up, whatever. My parents, regardless of my age, were always willing to let me know when I was out of line and I was NEVER to old for corporal punishment.
Off topic but it still amuses me. I had turned 21 a few months before and had ETS'd from the Army. My ex, Jethro Bodine and I had moved to GI after we both got our discharges. I had the day off and was running my mother around town so she could pay utilities, buy groceries and what not. Traffic was miserable and we were on a deadline as I needed to pick up Jethro Bodine when he got off work. I was cursing several blue streaks for sure. I parked in front of Mom's house and before she got out of the car, she grabbed both of my hands and very earnestly told me that my language was atrocious and she "wanted to be proud of me in all aspects" and I forget what all else. Last remark she made, though, was that I was talking like a drunken sailor. Now I was 21 and had just gotten out of the Army so I was all full of myself and was pretty much a smart @ss 21 year old. I smiled sweetly at her as I replied, "Mom, I have partied with sober sailors and I have partied with drunken sailors and, trust me, there is no difference in their vocabulary at all." Well that didn't sit right with her and before I could react, her right hand connected very forcefully with my right face cheek and she very politely reminded me that she was still my mother and I would NEVER be too old for her to discipline me. Hardest thing I did was keep myself from laughing as that would have earned me another slap on the face. LOL! Did not make me clean up my mouth in the least.
Back on topic. I hope that the throwing crap on the field was a one and done for our students. Not a good look at all.
I heard Gary Sharp mention this on a post-game show. I looked it up and it was exactly as he said. Justin Evans was asked about the mentality of the team after blowing 3 straight 4th quarter leads and he said they are a family and they have to keep their head coach up.
What the actual EFF? The players are responsible for keeping Coach Matt's spirits up after this disaster? This team gets ZERO leadership from the head coach. Coach Matt, the 50-year-old coach is down in the dumps, and he needs his players to lift his spirits? Another example of just what a clusterF this program is right now.
What the actual EFF? The players are responsible for keeping Coach Matt's spirits up after this disaster? This team gets ZERO leadership from the head coach. Coach Matt, the 50-year-old coach is down in the dumps, and he needs his players to lift his spirits? Another example of just what a clusterF this program is right now.
I know I'm repeating myself here- I trust this guy's opinion.
I believe it is the curse of Bo. Lets think back to when we came from behind to beat OSU and the fans had booed the team at half time and a bunch had left. Remember the taping of Bos tirade after that game. During it he said "lets see how good they are after I'm gone" because I think he was already catching some heat and was expecting to get fired. Of course it didn't happen then but eventually did. And what has happened to Nebraska football since then? We haven't been very good. Maybe someone needs to contact Bo and VERY VERY kindly ask him to come back to the stadium and lift the curse. Maybe we name the goal post after him or we get a cat to roam the sidelines during games and we name the cat Bo. I dont know but we are cursed. Maybe its just the curse of firing two 9 win coaches.
