More Nebbie Dysfunction



Agree, but I have to agree with that decision as their defense was a mess and they are just not tough on the interior. More heads will fall. But, to your point, yes ya can't have any consistency doing the revolving door for coaches.
 


The thing that makes it even more complicated now a days when you get rid of a coordinator is how many guys are going to jump ship? Do they lose as recruits not know what system they are going to play in? The trickle down affects could be brutal on this rather than just let guys develop, learn the system, and build some depth. Don't feel sorry for them
 


I am just struggling to see what Rhule is selling to recruits and the Bugeater fans. Lost their best QB recruit. May lose their starting QB. Fired DC. Can't beat anyone that is any good. Unless their RB is moronic, he needs to jump to the NFL now. There have been a number of defections in the portal his first two years. I suspect we will see that again. Returning talent is suspect. Schedule is BRUTAL next year. Iowa just took a shit on the 50 yard line of Memorial Stadium and Rhule watched them do it. But hey, we have a bunch of trophies from last century!!!
 


NorthKCHawk said:
I am just struggling to see what Rhule is selling to recruits and the Bugeater fans. Lost their best QB recruit. May lose their starting QB. Fired DC. Can't beat anyone that is any good. Unless their RB is moronic, he needs to jump to the NFL now. There have been a number of defections in the portal his first two years. I suspect we will see that again. Returning talent is suspect. Schedule is BRUTAL next year. Iowa just took a shit on the 50 yard line of Memorial Stadium and Rhule watched them do it. But hey, we have a bunch of trophies from last century!!!
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You could see it on Rhule's face afterwards in the presser that this one was BAD for business. He even mentioned it himself that they had most all of their uncommited recruits in town and down on the field for this game. There's no way to recover from that IMO, especially with the laughing stock and meltdowns going on on social media right now. Hyping up your recruits and bringing them into your house to watch is a great move if you win, but if you get curb stomped by your rival and all your fans disappear in the 3rd quarter you can't talk your way out of it. How many times have there been more Iowa than nebraska fans left in that stadium? You could hear the cheers and LGH chants plain as day on TV. They've gotten beat bad at home before, but their fans usually at least stick around to the end. Hearing the boos, seeing fans head for the door, seeing Matt Rhule melt down on the sideline...baaaaaaaaaaad look and I don't think they can fix all that damage.

That post game presser was a little different. Rhule had that blank stare of someone who just got slapped in the face for the first time ever. Frost had it at one point...Riley had it....
 


NorthKCHawk said:
I am just struggling to see what Rhule is selling to recruits and the Bugeater fans. Lost their best QB recruit. May lose their starting QB. Fired DC. Can't beat anyone that is any good. Unless their RB is moronic, he needs to jump to the NFL now. There have been a number of defections in the portal his first two years. I suspect we will see that again. Returning talent is suspect. Schedule is BRUTAL next year. Iowa just took a shit on the 50 yard line of Memorial Stadium and Rhule watched them do it. But hey, we have a bunch of trophies from last century!!!
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What Ferentz needs to say on the recruiting trail to recruits is "I have more wins in Memorial Stadium than the last 4 coaches". Sign here.
 


Fryowa said:
You could see it on Rhule's face afterwards in the presser that this one was BAD for business. He even mentioned it himself that they had most all of their uncommited recruits in town and down on the field for this game. There's no way to recover from that IMO, especially with the laughing stock and meltdowns going on on social media right now. Hyping up your recruits and bringing them into your house to watch is a great move if you win, but if you get curb stomped by your rival and all your fans disappear in the 3rd quarter you can't talk your way out of it. How many times have there been more Iowa than nebraska fans left in that stadium? You could hear the cheers and LGH chants plain as day on TV. They've gotten beat bad at home before, but their fans usually at least stick around to the end. Hearing the boos, seeing fans head for the door, seeing Matt Rhule melt down on the sideline...baaaaaaaaaaad look and I don't think they can fix all that damage.

That post game presser was a little different. Rhule had that blank stare of someone who just got slapped in the face for the first time ever. Frost had it at one point...Riley had it....
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He honestly just looks lost on the sidelines and now as you state it's looking like that at pressers to.
He's apparently a coach who is only going to go as far as the coaches/coordinators he has hired. If he hits the lottery and gets good coaches than he looks good. If not you see what you get. He rides the shirt tails of the coordinators/coaches he has under him. Nebby seems to have no culture or identity and that is on the head coach.
 


The thing with this is, what are they going to try next? They've had:

An NFL head coach that took his team to the Super Bowl
An NFL head coach that was also a head coach at a P4 school for 14 years
A coach that went undefeated at his previous school that came back home and had all the support and resources to win
An NFL heach coach who also took 1 college team that had 2 wins one year to 10 wins 2 and 3 years later and another that won 1 game to 11 wins and the Sugar Bowl 2 years later

What is next? They've tried everything. Fire this one and start over again?

I honestly thought if anyone could do it, a guy like Rhule could do it. He's done it before. Seems to be level headed. Not gimmicky. I really didn't like it when he was hired. You could see the realization on his face Friday that he is in it deep and there may be no way out. He also realized that, while he resurrected 2 programs that seemed dead, some programs are too dead for even him to resurrect.

The common denominator in all of this? A very toxic and dead program.
 


It is amazing how thin the line is between success and failure. If Rhule doesn't shit the bed against Minnesota or Iowa, the fans would be crowing about progress with an 8-4 season. While things do not look as rosy as the Sand People want, there is still no question they are better than under Frost. Rhule runs a clean program, he is going to a bowl for a second year in a row, (Um, I was trying to come up with a list but that is all I got). The program is no longer a laughing stock now. Nebbie is now just sort of Maryland or Rutgers or Purdue.
 


The line between winning and losing in the 18 team Big Ten is so very thin. Let's look at Iowa this year:

1. They had 5 blowout wins. No doubters. That's 5 W and 0 L
2. But then they had SEVEN games decided in the 4th quarter:
RUTGERS: down 4 with 5 minutes left, rallied to win.
PENN ST: down 11 in second half and down 5 late in the 4th quarter, rallied to win.
MICH ST: down 10 in the 4th quarter, rallied to win.
INDIANA, OREGON, IOWA STATE AND USC: Enough said.

Iowa could have been 7-0 in the games above. They could also have finished 0-7.

The difference between 5-7 and 12-0 was razor thin for this Iowa team this year.
 


99topdawg said:
The thing with this is, what are they going to try next? They've had:

An NFL head coach that took his team to the Super Bowl
An NFL head coach that was also a head coach at a P4 school for 14 years
A coach that went undefeated at his previous school that came back home and had all the support and resources to win
An NFL heach coach who also took 1 college team that had 2 wins one year to 10 wins 2 and 3 years later and another that won 1 game to 11 wins and the Sugar Bowl 2 years later

What is next? They've tried everything. Fire this one and start over again?

I honestly thought if anyone could do it, a guy like Rhule could do it. He's done it before. Seems to be level headed. Not gimmicky. I really didn't like it when he was hired. You could see the realization on his face Friday that he is in it deep and there may be no way out. He also realized that, while he resurrected 2 programs that seemed dead, some programs are too dead for even him to resurrect.

The common denominator in all of this? A very toxic and dead program.
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I too was a little concerned when Ruhle was hired. I thought he would be the one to lead them to at least the top half of the B1G consistently and maybe higher in some years. While they have earned some respect, the lack of success in November (2-10 under Ruhle) is really a buzz kill for their fans. Not that I mind.

Their biggest flaws are on the lines, both offense and defense. They lost two D-Linemen from last year that were pretty good and I wondered how they would replace them. They didn't. Their O-Line seemed decent but without Emmitt Johnson what would they have looked like? Probably not all that good. KF has always built his teams from the inside out. Ruhle could learn a lesson from him on that.
 




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