Your Support for Rhule - Poll

[TGHusker]

The question asked if we finish this year at 5-7 or 6-6.... 

read it again - it say this year and next. 

 

[Hilltop]

Step in the right direction for sure, it’s just sad this is how far we’ve cratered. Too early to be calling rhules security into question but 6-6 would be a first class ticket for satt, McGuire and foley to kick rocks 

If I am MR, I'm not basing Satts future, or any of the others, on win/loss record.  They are either doing their job or not and who knows how much of their jobs he is controlling?  From the outside looking in, I saw enough last year to make me want Satt gone.  ST is still undecided for me because who knows how much time that guy is even getting with players at this point.  My guess is not much because they are trying to fix so many other things and his pk was injured which dramatically impacts perception of your job in that position.  Ultimately he is responsible but if they improve as the season goes on, I would be fine with him staying, same as the kid coaching receivers.  

 

[Hilltop]

read it again - it say this year and next. 

That is why there are ...  You are missing my point.  There is a big difference in 5-7 and 6-6 and what years they happen in.  Maybe not to you but the majority of our fan base just wants us in a bowl game.  Baby steps are ok right now to the casual fan.  

 

[Hagg]

So we're half way through the season with a HC in his second year and sitting on one game away from going to a bowl for the first time since 2016 and we've got our coaches list out for firings.

Maybe we should have a list out of starting players who should be sidelined/bench warmers instead.

Except for Special Teams "coach" Foley, of course (what's he doing?). 

 

[TGHusker]

That is why there are ...  You are missing my point.  There is a big difference in 5-7 and 6-6 and what years they happen in.  Maybe not to you but the majority of our fan base just wants us in a bowl game.  Baby steps are ok right now to the casual fan.  

I can understand - just get us to a bowl game mentality.  Yes, that would be a very nice accomplishment after 8 years of no go.  However, 6-6 means a 2nd year crash just like year one.  We had to win just 1 out of our last 4 games last year and we couldn't pull it off.  If we end up 6-6 - we get the bowl but how much development??  6-6 means we went 1-5 during the last half of the season.  

If we do it again in 2025 - great disappointment.   6-6 after 3 years isn't going to cut it with all that has been invested.   BUTTTT - we got an 7 or 8 year contract with Rhule. Just too darn expensive to buyout.  That is why I hate these kinds of contracts  -  all upside for the coach win or lose. 

Maybe we should have a list out of starting players who should be sidelined/bench warmers instead.

You can start that thread

 

[lo country]

Same. There isn’t a single supporting argument to be made to justify him staying. He’s a kid in his mid 20s and this his first big time job. We should be using the money we have, which is a lot, to hire a guy with 20-25 years of coaching experience. It’s borderline laughable some of the passes fans give some of these coach selections. You can’t both expect to be relevant nationally and be ok with a coaching staff with minimal experience at this level. We learned that lesson with frosty and we’re repeating the same s#!t again

So much this.  We are mother friggin Nebraska.  A blue blood, 5 time NC team. not some training ground for your friends kid.  Who was brought here from you with the Panthers who sucked completely (Panthers fan and Tepper is the issue), but what did he do there.  You get the highest rated blue chip player NU has had (and possibly ever have) at QB.  What does a QB do?  Spins the ball to WR's....You go out and get 2 big dudes form the portal who are coached by a kid...A kid Rhule.  Damn man, come on.  They don't block, don't take the top off the D and appear to be fading into the wood work.  Is this how they played previously or the wonder kid so far over his head that he can't teach them or they won't listen. The most important piece of this "pro style" O is the QB and you've saddled him with a below average OC and Doogie Howser coaching his receivers.  Maybe let Ron Brown start coaching them.  At least they'll be physical in blocking and at the point of attack.  What was his favorite comment "We don't run out of bounds at Nebraska" (unless a 2 minute drill)...That's the identity we need.  

 

[gossamorharpy]

So much this.  We are mother friggin Nebraska.  A blue blood, 5 time NC team. not some training ground for your friends kid.  Who was brought here from you with the Panthers who sucked completely (Panthers fan and Tepper is the issue), but what did he do there.  You get the highest rated blue chip player NU has had (and possibly ever have) at QB.  What does a QB do?  Spins the ball to WR's....You go out and get 2 big dudes form the portal who are coached by a kid...A kid Rhule.  Damn man, come on.  They don't block, don't take the top off the D and appear to be fading into the wood work.  Is this how they played previously or the wonder kid so far over his head that he can't teach them or they won't listen. The most important piece of this "pro style" O is the QB and you've saddled him with a below average OC and Doogie Howser coaching his receivers.  Maybe let Ron Brown start coaching them.  At least they'll be physical in blocking and at the point of attack.  What was his favorite comment "We don't run out of bounds at Nebraska" (unless a 2 minute drill)...That's the identity we need.  

 

[Hagg]

You can start that thread

But eye don't no how to start pole threds and stuff.  I bearly no how too post and kwote stuff. 

 

[Wistrom Disciple]

So we're half way through the season with a HC in his second year and sitting on one game away from going to a bowl for the first time since 2016 and we've got our coaches list out for firings.

Your point here is spot on IMO.  Could certain coaches improve? Absolutely. Is there any guarantee that a replacement would be better? Nope. The best we can do is trust that Rhule can identify areas for improvement whether that is the coaching staff, players, schemes, etc. and make the necessary changes when appropriate.

Polls on who to hire & fire at this stage seems questionable and reminds me of fickle SEC fanbases like Auburn or Florida. 

 

[BigRedBuster]

Maybe we should have a list out of starting players who should be sidelined/bench warmers instead.

I have always been a fan that tried to not criticize individual players too much because these guys are just out of HS and willing to play for Nebraska. NIL and the portal is starting to change my attitude towards that. 

 

[Mierin]

Foley has to go regardless of the final record.

 

[lo country]

I need to come clean and confess what the problem is at NU.  I was concerned about it prior to the hire and in multiple pressers it has confirmed the issue.  It's Rhule wearing those dumb a$$ short sleeve hoodies.  I hoped he would not bring them here, but they have become a staple.  Ban the Sloodies......(Short sleeve hoodies).

 

[Huskerfollower4life]

So we're half way through the season with a HC in his second year and sitting on one game away from going to a bowl for the first time since 2016 and we've got our coaches list out for firings.

Maybe we should have a list out of starting players who should be sidelined/bench warmers instead.

Except for Special Teams "coach" Foley, of course (what's he doing?). 

What gives you any hope or wishful thinking that Nebraska can or will get to a bowl with how they have played?  The offense sucks, the defense is ok, and the special teams sucks.  So your basing your decision that since we are 5-2 that is all that matters?  I beg to differ bc it's also how you get there.  Nebraska head coaches have made a ton of horrible decisions to set the team back and the program back.  Matt Rhule brought his friends along and look how things are playing out.  So did SF and MR and they got canned.  We have all the resources and great facilities but when you think about it Nebraska has turned into worse than Kansas in football and that speaks volumes.  Matt Rhule is a proven head coach with limited success and his staff here is either unqualified or learn on the job which is horrible.  Also if we didn't have Dylan Raiola at all, our record would have more losses than wins.

 

[Hagg]

What gives you any hope or wishful thinking that Nebraska can or will get to a bowl with how they have played?  The offense sucks, the defense is ok, and the special teams sucks.  So your basing your decision that since we are 5-2 that is all that matters?  I beg to differ bc it's also how you get there.  Nebraska head coaches have made a ton of horrible decisions to set the team back and the program back.  Matt Rhule brought his friends along and look how things are playing out.  So did SF and MR and they got canned.  We have all the resources and great facilities but when you think about it Nebraska has turned into worse than Kansas in football and that speaks volumes.  Matt Rhule is a proven head coach with limited success and his staff here is either unqualified or learn on the job which is horrible.  Also if we didn't have Dylan Raiola at all, our record would have more losses than wins.

I realize our wins this season so far have been against less than great teams.  But having watched all of those games I still feel that we were playing at a higher level in all of them, in varying degrees of course, especially our D. 

That level of play can win us Iowa, UCLA, and Wisconsin. 

 

[Hagg]

I have always been a fan that tried to not criticize individual players too much because these guys are just out of HS and willing to play for Nebraska. NIL and the portal is starting to change my attitude towards that. 

I understand that and feel the same.  But as observational input, gum flappin' on this board here, I still feel that it's okay to suggest that some, MANY, of our players need to think back to the games wherein they played a lot better than they did against the Hosers.  They know that better than we do, and so do the coaches.   It's okay to say it and even to suggest some of them may need to be benched.