*** Matt Rhule Hired as New Husker Head Coach ***

Huskerfollower4life said:
What did he say or it doesn't matter he is too far gone himself?
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct brought Shanle on to explain why he isn't in favor of Rhule.  Shanle spent 10 minutes rambling on a few things

  • Heard it was Rhule a couple weeks ago from a friend in the NFL who didn't have much good to say about Rhule (so a 2nd hand negative experience)
  • Rhule's experience is as a slow, re-builder, and he wanted someone who could come in right away and win - Urban Meyer, or try to hire Lincoln Riley last year (both unrealistic IMO)
  • Rhule's salary is too high for someone with a .500 record in college and a failure in the NFL (could be a fair comment, but that's the market rate)
  • NU should have tried to hire Fickell for $6M (fair point, but no one know if Fickell was interested in the NU rebuild)
  • Finally, he said, if we are going to give 2-3 years to Rhule to turn things around, we should have just given the job to Mickey, because he's a former Husker player and would have been a lot cheaper (the show hosts finally got him to admit that he was mad that Mickey wasn't getting the full-time job, and going to have a bad taste about anyone else)

I don't think there is anything wrong with a dissenting opinion, but I think his complaints were more emotional than rational thought.

Here is a link to the show replays.  https://1620thezone.com/unsportsmanlike-conduct-radio-replay/  It was segment 6 on Nov. 29th.

 
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deedsker said:
Honestly, haven’t paid attention to Cincy since week 1. I thought Fickell was doing just fine at Cincy and only now did some digging. I am not saying he isn’t a good coach, but looking at this year more closely , it does make me more skeptical of him. 
 

The lasting memories I have of him is his trip to Lincoln where after Braxton got hurt, he didn’t have any answer to the question, how do I preserve this win with superior talent outside of QB. That and Joe Bausermann’s passing chart. That pic still gets used to this season.
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My boss is a Cincy alum, still follows the team very closely. I was taunting him about Fickell coming to NU, and then we both shared equal disappointment about him going to Wiscy. We were discussing this year, and he was saying that they lost 26 contributors from last year's team. Every team has turnover obviously, but this seemed pretty significant, and might explain their "down" year.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
Unsportsmanlike Conduct brought Shanle on to explain why he isn't in favor of Rhule.  Shanle spent 10 minutes rambling on a few things

  • Heard it was Rhule a couple weeks ago from a friend in the NFL who didn't have much good to say about Rhule (so a 2nd hand negative experience)
  • Rhule's experience is as a slow, re-builder, and he wanted someone who could come in right away and win - Urban Meyer, or try to hire Lincoln Riley last year (both unrealistic IMO)
  • Rhule's salary is too high for someone with a .500 record in college and a failure in the NFL (could be a fair comment, but that's the market rate)
  • NU should have tried to hire Fickell for $6M (fair point, but no one know if Fickell was interested in the NU rebuild)
  • Finally, he said, if we are going to give 2-3 years to Rhule to turn things around, we should have just given the job to Mickey, because he's a former Husker player and would have been a lot cheaper (the show hosts finally got him to admit that he was mad that Mickey wasn't getting the full-time job, and going to have a bad taste about anyone else)

I don't think there is anything wrong with a dissenting opinion, but I think his complaints were more emotional than rational thought.

Here is a link to the show replays.  https://1620thezone.com/unsportsmanlike-conduct-radio-replay/  It was segment 6 on Nov. 29th.
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So a really long winded way to say he is butt hurt. Got it.

 
Expected the news to leak today. Not sure if this is the "official" leak, but it's unequivocal.



 
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knapplc said:
Expected the news to leak today. Not sure if this is the "official" leak, but it's unequivocal.
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I would argue it "leaked" yesterday, but as I said above I think the official NU announcement will come soon, right before he joins Gameday.

 
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SouthLincoln Husker said:
Scott is just a Cry baby! :D
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What I didn't like was that his initial negativity was based on 2nd-hand information, while a number of former Huskers (Ameer, Mike Rucker, others) have come out with first-hand knowledge of playing for/working with Rhule and had positive experiences.  Like you said, it's Shanle being a cry-baby because the coach isn't a former Husker.

 
For those complaining about the timing of the announcement, I think Trev has handled it about as well as he could:

  • Didn't allow a lot of names to be leaked during the season, which allowed the players to focus the best they could on the games.
  • Yes, I know Rhule's name came out yesterday before the game, but that allowed the players and Mickey to have one final game together as team and head coach
  • NU announces it officially this morning, and makes arrangements for Rhule to appear on ESPN Gameday
  • Official press conference will be Sunday or Monday, Rhule can start bringing in a staff and do their best to retain the current commits and add to this year's recruiting class, along with thinking about filling holes in the transfer portal
 
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