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Stop and think about the coaching staff's Nebraska has had from 2013 through 2022...

Pelini's last few years. A toxic ahole coach who literally blamed the fans and media for how terrible the team played. A coach who openly spoke about how much he hated us fans. What a p.o.s..

Mike Riley. If Pelini's last 2-3 years was the start of the decline, then this Oregon State loser caused the program to fall off of a cliff. Lifting and strength and conditioning became optional and we all saw Nebraska really start to get pushed around, especially at the LOS. The ultimate insult was watching a Northern Illinois team come into our house and just flat out-effort Nebraska enroute to a win. This embarrassment of a head coach literally put Nebraska into the abyss of college football.

Scott Frost. Prodigal son who returned home where anything positive he did was then negated by something stupid he did. And we cannot forget that he was drunk most of the time. Oh and when he blew off the recruiting meeting with Dylan Raiola and his family. Emphasis on strength and conditioning returned, but Nebraska was so far behind the metaphorical 8 ball it took Frost's entire 4 years just for us to begin catching up. But in the end, the drinking, lack of focus, mind-numbingly stupid play calling, and generally speaking very average recruiting classes doomed Frost and the program.

Now we have Matt Rhule. Nebraska is currently not a great team, but they're solidly trending in that direction. This year Nebraska is exponentially better on Special Teams than we've ever been since the days of Tom Osborne. Michigan State, Maryland, and Northwestern were games that, the way the played out, in Nebraska's past they would have lost. This team still has big issues at OT and stopping the run, but is head and shoulders better than we've been since 2012 at least.

I am happy Coach Rhule's contract was extended, now let's see the kinda of play against USC and moving forward where we don't look back at the extension he just signed today and think, "What the hell were we thinking?"

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Husker99 said:
Stop and think about the coaching staff's Nebraska has had from 2013 through 2022...

Pelini's last few years. A toxic ahole coach who literally blamed the fans and media for how terrible the team played. A coach who openly spoke about how much he hated us fans. What a p.o.s..

Mike Riley. If Pelini's last 2-3 years was the start of the decline, then this Oregon State loser caused the program to fall off of a cliff. Lifting and strength and conditioning became optional and we all saw Nebraska really start to get pushed around, especially at the LOS. The ultimate insult was watching a Northern Illinois team come into our house and just flat out-effort Nebraska enroute to a win. This embarrassment of a head coach literally put Nebraska into the abyss of college football.

Scott Frost. Prodigal son who returned home where anything positive he did was then negated by something stupid he did. And we cannot forget that he was drunk most of the time. Oh and when he blew off the recruiting meeting with Dylan Raiola and his family. Emphasis on strength and conditioning returned, but Nebraska was so far behind the metaphorical 8 ball it took Frost's entire 4 years just for us to begin catching up. But in the end, the drinking, lack of focus, mind-numbingly stupid play calling, and generally speaking very average recruiting classes doomed Frost and the program.

Now we have Matt Rhule. Nebraska is currently not a great team, but they're solidly trending in that direction. This year Nebraska is exponentially better on Special Teams than we've ever been since the days of Tom Osborne. Michigan State, Maryland, and Northwestern were games that, the way the played out, in Nebraska's past they would have lost. This team still has big issues at OT and stopping the run, but is head and shoulders better than we've been since 2012 at least.

I am happy Coach Rhule's contract was extended, now let's see the kinda of play against USC and moving forward where we don't look back at the extension he just signed today and think, "What the hell were we thinking?"

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You got to be kidding about special teams. Solich and Pelini both had good or great special teams. Did you forget about Alex Henery kicking field goals? Demornay Pierson El returning kicks. Or Nate Swift or Niles Paul among many others. We only worried about special teams under Callahan, Riley and Frost. And look what happened, we lost a lot of games.
 
Good for us, the U and Matt Rhule that he got a contract extension. But it doesnt really mean anything. He already had a contract. If PSU really wants Rhule they will get a booster to pay the 15 mil and have him. Same with Cigniti at Indiana. Extensions are nice and make everyone feel all warm and gooey inside, but in the end it doesn't stop a guy from leaving if he really wants to.
 
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Uenth said:
Does anyone else find it hilarious that a thread started Nov. 14, 2022 is still active, and with 80 pages no less.
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ATX_Husker said:
Thankful this one is finally picking up traction again!
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And one of the plot lines from the early posts was that Rhule would bail as soon as his alma mater, Penn State, came calling had been gone full circle and has been put to bed.

And FWIW, this is NOT intended as a dig on Huskergod84 who made that prediction -- Truthfully, I had a sick feeling in my gut that he was going to be proven right.
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Good for us, the U and Matt Rhule that he got a contract extension. But it doesnt really mean anything. He already had a contract. If PSU really wants Rhule they will get a booster to pay the 15 mil and have him.
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Okie Dokie. :)
 
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Huskergod84 said:
You got to be kidding about special teams. Solich and Pelini both had good or great special teams. Did you forget about Alex Henery kicking field goals? Demornay Pierson El returning kicks. Or Nate Swift or Niles Paul among many others. We only worried about special teams under Callahan, Riley and Frost. And look what happened, we lost a lot of games.
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You're arguing imaginary things. I never said anything about Special Teams under Pelini. I said he was an ahole who hated us fans and often blamed us or the media for when the team lost.
 
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DrFumble said:
And one of the plot lines from the early posts was that Rhule would bail as soon as his alma mater, Penn State, came calling had been gone full circle and has been put to bed.

And FWIW, this is NOT intended as a dig on Huskergod84 who made that prediction -- Truthfully, I had a sick feeling in my gut that he was going to be proven right.
Okie Dokie. :)
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Of course it was possible, but it was never serious. Yes Rhule and Kraft are best friends but again, Rhule left Temple while Kraft was there. If working for best friends is so great then why did Rhule leave Temple? Yes he wanted to be in a power conference but the more important reason is working for a good or best friend can be extremely difficult on your personal friendship if that Best friend has to make a business decision that could and most likely would negatively effect that friendship for a long time. Had Kraft not been the current AD at PSU, then I and many others with connections would've been extremely worried and a greater chance Rhule would've left. Rhule staying at NU was never in doubt just would've liked him to squash the rumors out of the gate cause I do think it affected them greatly against Minnesota.
 
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Rhule staying at NU was never in doubt just would've liked him to squash the rumors out of the gate ...
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I was confident in Rhule's post-Franklin firing comments---until I watched Pat Kraft's presser following the firing. Kraft was passionate about hiring a great coach who would be a great fit. It struck me halfway through presser that -- Omigod, he's talking about Matt Rhule!!!!
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...cause I do think it affected them greatly against Minnesota.
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Rhule wasn't wishy-washy in his private comments to his players and our recruits. But CFB is full of head coaches who said one thing and then did another. It had to have been super-disconcerting to go to practice each day and read that your HC was the odds-on-favorite to be the next Penn State coach. There is no question it had a big impact on the team's psyche going into Minnesota.
 
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DrFumble said:
There is no question it had a big impact on the team's psyche going into Minnesota.
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I absolutely agree that it affected the team. I understand they are young (under 22) and that would suck to have your coach the focus of that much media attention and speculation and there would have to be nigglings of doubt over whether or not he had been straight with you but the hard a@@ in me says that they are adults and should be able to deal with life's pressures. Having said that, I'm a hard a@@ and I've never been in their shoes so it's not fair to make that judgment.

I'm just glad this is over (is he or isn't he headlines).

GO BIG RED!!!
 
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DrFumble said:
I've got a sneaking suspicion, Ms. "They are adults" Harda$$, that if we were to travel back in time when YOU were 21, we would find that you weren't always super-mature in dealing with "life's pressures" either. :p
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Actually I was. But, and it's a big but, I had a lot of experiences, starting about age 14, that probably enabled me to deal with things better. Also, as was discussed, either earlier in this thread, or another thread, being in the military gives you a whole different mindset. It's one of those you have to go through basic training, etc, to understand. It's just how it is.:p
 
DrFumble said:
Okie Dokie, Uenth.

For all these years, I thought I was the only one.
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LOL Fumble. We could sit down some day with a cup of coffee and I could give you the cliff notes version and then you might understand. But probably the biggest difference maker was being in the military. It teaches you to focus on the big picture because, in war or conflict situations, it is literally the difference between life and death. Once that has been drilled into you, I don't think you ever lose it.
 
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Of course it was possible, but it was never serious. Yes Rhule and Kraft are best friends but again, Rhule left Temple while Kraft was there. If working for best friends is so great then why did Rhule leave Temple? Yes he wanted to be in a power conference but the more important reason is working for a good or best friend can be extremely difficult on your personal friendship if that Best friend has to make a business decision that could and most likely would negatively effect that friendship for a long time. Had Kraft not been the current AD at PSU, then I and many others with connections would've been extremely worried and a greater chance Rhule would've left. Rhule staying at NU was never in doubt just would've liked him to squash the rumors out of the gate cause I do think it affected them greatly against Minnesota.
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If it was never in doubt why did we need to give him an extension?
 
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