This is exactly why I think recruiting classes are a bunch of BS. If you don’t have the right coaches that can develop the players and devise game plans that take advantage of their talent, recruiting classes are useless. This year has exposed Rhule for the fraud he is. However, next year, will be better since we have a better recruiting class. Let us keep thinking that and drinking the nice refreshing koolaid.Very good chance 5W-7L, again. Eight consecutive years NO bowl. Loaded with 4-Stars and one 5-Star yet losing records
Losing games that we were close to winning sucks. I get it but fans weren't promised anything. Expectations were created by talking media heads and the fan base has hung on every word. Rhule went 6-6 in year 2 at Tulane. He went 7-6 at Baylor in Year 2. In year 3 his results went way up at both stops. Similar results are still possible here. If we don't beat Wisconsin or Iowa, I could see the heat turned up a bit but he will still be given year 3 for sure.
I don't like the direction anything is going, but he did win more hear in year 1 than those other schools. So if you simply take the year 2 win total, and total number of wins over the first two years we are close to those other schools. More even in total wins already. The trend at Temple and Baylor was upward however, and it appears stagnant to regressing here at Nebraska which is the issue.
I get your point but I think it is worth mentioning strength of schedule as well. 2 of our losses are to teams currently a lock in the playoff and one of our wins was against another team that has a decent shot of making the playoff.
I get where one might think this, but in reality we are the exact opposite of that. The fans have been supporting this school and this team FAR more than they deserve over the last decade. We have the longest bowl drought in the country, by double any other Power 4 school. We continue to see the same thing over and over and over, yet we still show up. We deserve something better than this and are not impatient after this long. No other team gets this much support with this level of losing anywhere else in the world. There should be psych studies done on us at this point. :lol:
In that respect, I agree. Regarding Matt and out current situation, I disagree. We were all excited for him to come here and duplicate his previous results. We should wait and see if he can do it.
We have no choice but to give him years more, and I want it to work like everyone else. I don't think most are giving up, and I don't think it is unreasonable to want to see progress and a bowl this year. The last month has been rough and the opposite of progress. I am happy to be patient if I see signs that this is moving the right direction. Right now, I don't and that is discouraging.