"Nebraska is Dead" Video

[haydensly]

He can be fake news (he is) and bolded can be true at the same time.

We can have our cake and eat it too with nebraska football.



Also, he hasn't proven he can build a P4 program. He had a single good season at Baylor where he never beat a good team. Go look at the records of the teams he beat. There's two winning conference records in there I believe. Baylor's SOS in 2019 was dead last in the B12 and that's even with them playing two top 10 teams. That isn't a build or a rebuild.

Temple doesn't translate into major college football.

Rhule is doing what Riley and Frost did towards the end of their respective tenures. Throwing shit at the wall, babbling in front of reporters, and firing assistants hoping something will stick.

Riley's 1st (only) 3 years conference records:

3-5 Beat Minnesota, MSU, Rutgers
6-3 Beat NW, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Minnesota, Maryland
3-6 Beat Rutgers, Illinois, Purdue

Frost's first 3 years conference record:

3-6 Beat Minnesota, Illinois, MSU
3-6 Beat Illinois, NW, Maryland
3-5 Beat PSU, Purdue, Rutgers

Rhule's first 3 years conference record:

3-6 Beat Illinois, NW, Purdue
3-6 Beat Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin
4-5 Beat MSU, Maryland, NW, UCLA

There's a little bit of a pattern there...

Rhule has ZERO even remotely marquee wins in 3 years, conference or otherwise. Rhule has never in 3 years beaten a single team with a winning conference record and only ONE team with an overall winning record (8-5 NW in 2023). If you look at schedules and wins of Riley and Frost's first 3 years, they actually had much more competitive seasons than Rhule has ever had in the same time period. If you're using making a bowl game as criteria I don't know what to tell you. Non-con wins over terrible teams are the reason for that.

All this reinforces what I've been saying about Rhule. He's a great used car salesman. He says all the right things at all the right times but it's a bunch of fluff. He's all talk and no results. Just like how Frost came in as Johnny Hometown...saying he was restoring the glory and gave all the lifted Ram-driving, backward hat-wearing, 45 year old husker fans with skull decals in their back windows HUGE natty boners, but didn't do shit as far as results. Well it's the same thing with Rhule. He had all these cool shiny ideas of how he was gonna bring back the glory, just in a new way because husker fans knew Riley and Frost's ideas weren't it. What he's done is nothing but embarrass himself with the nice "blackout" game meltdown at home against USC on national TV, let Minnesota rush their field after getting blown out, and then bring all his best recruits down on the fied to watch Iowa stomp a mudhole in his team at home. A game he said was the most important one of the season.

All talk, no results.

Fake News.

That is pretty damning even if you left out the non-conference records. And you didn't even bring up his stellar NFL head coaching gig, however brief (and disastrous) it was.

My feeling is that they probably should keep him even if he isn't going to bring them back to the promised land. Because they won't be able to get anyone better.

 

[Fryowa]

That is pretty damning even if you left out the non-conference records. And you didn't even bring up his stellar NFL head coaching gig, however brief (and disastrous) it was.

My feeling is that they probably should keep him even if he isn't going to bring them back to the promised land. Because they won't be able to get anyone better.

They definitely have to keep him. But...there's still a part of me who thinks their donors and AD have a mindset of if he's not winning 9 games they're not out anything by firing him because good coaches will want to try it there. That's where they're wrong. I think if he has a 5-7 season next year (very possible with their crazy brutal schedule), it might happen.

 

[dagdaj]

If Nebby fired Rhule what high profile HC would apply there given their track record? You have a fan base that still has way too high expectations and you are in a state where your best recruiting base is Omaha. The kids you are recruiting now were not alive the last time Nebby finished the season ranked. With ISU emerging as a decent team they don't own the western side of Iowa anymore.

The day they move on from Rhule they will be stuck looking at FCS or D2 coaching candidates. Perhaps a coordinator desperate for his own HC gig. Nebraska is a hot mess and it's either Rhule or bust at this point.

I 100% believe Iowa could attract a higher profile coach than Nebraska. Not that they should. Or would.
But I can totally believe that what fan detractors (including some Hawk fans) say about Iowa celebrating mediocrity, comes across totally different to a coach.

A head coach sees a program with the ability to attract VERY highly talented and coachable in-state athletes who can (and often have to make up the foundation of any team), particularly on the line and large elements of the defense. They see what some call mediocrity is actually often be in the mix or even out for something pretty special. And is rarely a season or two away from being relevant if things go sideways. As I've said before, under the current playoff rules, Ferentz would have taken them there 20% of the time. Someone with real belief in themselves as a coach looks at a storied Big 10 program that, in some respects, just needs a few things to come together to level up. Things a prospective head coach may feel they can bring together. It's not like anyone would put Ferentz up there as one of the 'genius' coaches of all time. Very good (VERY VERY good, if you consider ALL things), but not 'elite'. If you view yourself as the next "Saban" (which I assume they all do), Iowa is not at all a bad choice if OSU/Alabama/etc. aren't coming knocking. Not as good as Penn St. Or Michigan. And there's likely serious competition for those gigs. And they come with massive expectations of rather immediate success.

If you think you're a Cignetti type...Iowa is a way easier path than Nebraska.
Hell, I'd think Indiana was a way easier path than Nebraska. Not because they had more to work with. They just weren't Nebraska. An angry, high blood pressured, and not really seeing things through a contemporary lens.

You wonder how some of the teams of yore....like the Ivies in the later 1800s who dominated (because there wasn't as much else) or the Pitts, Armys, and the like in the earlier 1900s.....the entirety of the world changed. And so did their fortunes in football. I think the same has happened for Nebraska. The money and resources it takes now to attract and field a team, while they have access to a relatively good amount, just isn't in the same as it is for so many others. And they think that through shear will and their past history they can compete. And that keeps them from doing what Iowa or Indiana does. Or even Minnesota, for that matter. They don't think they have to do things different and haven't slowly adapted in ways like Iowa and every other school in a smaller state. They don't feel like they have to.