Holgorsen N
- Thread starter Hunchback Johnny
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What makes a great leader is his willingness to learn from his mistakes and keep moving forward. I'm old enough to remember all the times that Tom Osborne was blasted by the fans over the years for a variety of reasons. It was particularly brutal after we lost to Georgia Tech in the early 90s. But TO used that difficult time to reassess his program and the end result was three Natties in four years.
Did you EVER see that kind of self-reflection from Bo?
Be honest, if Rhule had stood pat, you'd be bitching that he was stubbornly sticking with his buddy hire no matter how crappy things had gotten.
THIS!!!
Few thoughts. I thought Rhule should relieve Satterfield of play calling before the USC game. Didn't call for him to be fired - and I figured Rhule could decide how best to call plays himself or with the existing offensive coaches. Rhule did what I thought he should do - but he added the extra step of bringing in a very experienced offensive coach to run the offense. While it isn't what I expected I don't see how you can be too critical of it.
Of course if it blows up in our face the next 3 games.....well that's on Rhule.
Pretty clear the plan is to have DH be the OC next season. Bringing him now has the benefit of injecting him into the recruiting process ahead of impending dates in December for early signing and the portal opening.
This move is actually timed well - assuming the execution is good. Offensive needs to show a pulse in the next 3 games and we need to have a good recruiting cycle especially for the offense. If DH is gonzo after the season along with MS and we are scrambling to find an OC.....and recruiting suffers.....well Rhule probably took a big gamble that is going to cost him his job.
Of course if it blows up in our face the next 3 games.....well that's on Rhule.
Pretty clear the plan is to have DH be the OC next season. Bringing him now has the benefit of injecting him into the recruiting process ahead of impending dates in December for early signing and the portal opening.
This move is actually timed well - assuming the execution is good. Offensive needs to show a pulse in the next 3 games and we need to have a good recruiting cycle especially for the offense. If DH is gonzo after the season along with MS and we are scrambling to find an OC.....and recruiting suffers.....well Rhule probably took a big gamble that is going to cost him his job.
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You are 100% correct. But, and this is a big but, it should never have come to this in the first place. Satterfield is not a good offensive coach. He's been completely unable to put together a whole game of offense for the Huskers, and this year the team is regressing. Badly on offense.
As a fanbase, we deserve better than this.
Ohio - I agree we deserve better. But since Pelini was let go for being a giant tool - regardless of who we have hired the results have been pretty ugly. You can argue the flaws of each HC hired since then and their staffs.....but it comes down to a lack of wins whatever the cause (buddy hires, drinking habits, bad recruiting decisions, crappy in game decision making, etc.). The one thing Rhule has going for him is he'll be given more time. If we miss a bowl game this season and next - he's gone. Any trend showing improvement by the end of 2025 likely gets him a 4th year.
I think the W-L record at the end of 2026 will determine the fate of his tenure. But he could very well flame out and be fired at the end of 2025. (I predict he lasts until end of 2026 and is let go) Why wait if that is the case? Well.....you need to be able to show cause not so much to fire Rhule but to make the case you are going to give the next guy a reasonable amount of time to right the ship. In the era of NIL and the portal......maybe 4 years IS too long. But there is also the possibility I am proven flat wrong and we improve significantly. I don't see HOW with the product to date....but that's probably my scarlet colored glasses.
I think the W-L record at the end of 2026 will determine the fate of his tenure. But he could very well flame out and be fired at the end of 2025. (I predict he lasts until end of 2026 and is let go) Why wait if that is the case? Well.....you need to be able to show cause not so much to fire Rhule but to make the case you are going to give the next guy a reasonable amount of time to right the ship. In the era of NIL and the portal......maybe 4 years IS too long. But there is also the possibility I am proven flat wrong and we improve significantly. I don't see HOW with the product to date....but that's probably my scarlet colored glasses.
All 3 teams we face are flawed - but can we exploit those flaws? TBD.
Iowa's loss to UCLA was similar to our game - except they forced turnovers to keep it closer. Iowa blew out Wisky.....USC's record shows they are a middle of the road team in the B1G. Maybe enough to win comfortably over Nebraska. Maybe not.
Iowa's loss to UCLA was similar to our game - except they forced turnovers to keep it closer. Iowa blew out Wisky.....USC's record shows they are a middle of the road team in the B1G. Maybe enough to win comfortably over Nebraska. Maybe not.
I know he's not going anywhere, I'm just terribly frustrated with Rhule's assistant coaching choices. He's got to pick better, manage better and respond to failure faster.
The thing that sucks is that it's been about 5 coaches in a row that we could say that about.
Anyone who has ever took over a sports team or came in to manage any kind of organization charged with turning a losing program into a winner knows that the ride to the summit isn't always a smooth ride. Especially early, it's bound to be a bumpy ride.
Matt Rhule is the right guy. Give him time. I've seen more real progress from Rhule in a season and a half than I saw from Scott Frost during his entire tenure.
This is at least as important as scratching out one more win this season to qualify for a bowl. External and internal recruiting and the portal window opening up makes it imperative that some hope for the future is injected into the Nebraska offense.
When I think of 5 years of Mario Verduzco, this is a lightning-fast reaction from Rhule.
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I kinda think this would happen regardless of our record, and maybe especially if DR was having a great yr, b/c Satt was calling a decent plan.
That's the D-1 FB world now.
I kinda think this would happen regardless of our record, and maybe especially if DR was having a great yr, b/c Satt was calling a decent plan.
That's the D-1 FB world now.
In this day and age of no limits on how many coaches you can have you dont have to fire anyone. Just demote them and cut their pay. Then they can decide if they want to stay.
Yeah OL can't crack block below the waist, they can't cut defenders at the knees anymore, they can't have one OL go high while another goes low, all that is true.
But it is still perfectly legal to fire off the ball. To hit a defender. An OL can also grab a hold of a DL jersey and hold on as long as their hands stay inside.
Bottom line, I do not buy the notion that we can't run the ball because the rules have changed. We can run the ball, we just have a string of coaches who choose not to.
If we had a coach who was committed to the run, we were running for 300+ yards a game and we were still 5-4 or worse record wise, I'd concede the point. But we all know if Nebraska were pounding the rock for 300 yards a game, we'd be undefeated and ranked #1 in the country.
Not saying a good ground game is impossible. Just saying the type we had in the “glory days “ just isn’t possible. The rules have changed to make ncaa more like the nfl lite
