Rhule's coaching staff

I really hope he doesn't try to build his team every year through the portal and a bunch of one and dones. To me that is just a culture killer. Go identify talent that fits your philosophy and schemes regardless of star rankings, get them in the weight room and make them bigger, tougher, stronger and faster and develop them. If you've got some immediate holes due to recruiting misses or attrition, then plug in a transfer, but please don't build your team that way.

So are you saying the Huskers should not have taken Tre Palmer or Samori Toure?
 
I really hope he doesn't try to build his team every year through the portal and a bunch of one and dones. To me that is just a culture killer. Go identify talent that fits your philosophy and schemes regardless of star rankings, get them in the weight room and make them bigger, tougher, stronger and faster and develop them. If you've got some immediate holes due to recruiting misses or attrition, then plug in a transfer, but please don't build your team that way.
I understand your feelings about the transfer portal but I look at Rhule's use of it a little differently.

One of the best attributes of our new HC is that he has a very detailed, analytical approach to identifying prospects. Now to be fair, it's been about recruiting out of high school, not out of the portal. This offseason will be HCMR's first trip down that alley.

But if he applies the same techniques he's used in the past on identifying the right transfer portal pick-ups, that could be a great way for him to get his Husker program off to a much faster start than he did at Temple or Baylor.
 
I understand your feelings about the transfer portal but I look at Rhule's use of it a little differently.

One of the best attributes of our new HC is that he has a very detailed, analytical approach to identifying prospects. Now to be fair, it's been about recruiting out of high school, not out of the portal. This offseason will be HCMR's first trip down that alley.

But if he applies the same techniques he's used in the past on identifying the right transfer portal pick-ups, that could be a great way for him to get his Husker program off to a much faster start than he did at Temple or Baylor.
It will be a learning process - but he'll have some assistants and staff that have been in the middle of the Transfer Portal process already.
More importantly - Nebraska's NIL pool is elite - we are going to pull some players on their NIL deal.......something I am sure Trev sold HARD to Rhule in getting him to accept the offer to be HC.
 
Also sounds like HCMRh is lining up Jake Peetz as an offensive coach (he was LSU's OC in 2021 - currently a Rams assistant coach)

Looks like fooling around time is pretty much over - when it comes to assistant coaches. Rhule is bringing out the big guns.

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Well I'm impressed with Matt Rhule already but how he handles Coach Joseph is going to say a lot about the man.