Special Teams Coach Hot Board

[jaihawk]

If Rhule is making $7M a year to be a CEO type head coach, hard to have much sympathy if he can't deal with it

Like honestly he could be Mark Mangino. requiring NU staff to wipe his ass with shower towels, if he puts out a top 25 special teams unit he's coming back

That's short sighted. I think many people that have been in management have had situations where you had someone that was a high performer but a serious pain in the ass and at some point in time, you had to decide if the juice was worth the squeeze. I've seen plenty of good sales people let go for that very reason.

 

[jaihawk]

You’re telling me you don’t bear hug your boss during working hours?

How about that guy in the Allstate commercial who decides to bark at his boss?

 

[iruletheskool]

The really fucked up part is that I read USC still has their ST guy and they don't even have a DC yet. I would think the new guy would want to pick his staff. Makes no sense right now.

Come back, sign your extension, get your big raise and see what next year brings.

Are they looking at Ek for DC?

 

[Mavsker]

That's short sighted. I think many people that have been in management have had situations where you had someone that was a high performer but a serious pain in the ass and at some point in time, you had to decide if the juice was worth the squeeze. I've seen plenty of good sales people let go for that very reason.

Perhaps.....but we don't know if he's a serious pain in the ass. We do know he's a very good ST coach. Pretty likely we get worse on ST next year if Ek moves on and we can't afford to.

I'd think one of the benefits of having a CEO type head coach would be the ability to manage his other coaches. Instead we're seemingly letting him walk and getting this autistic response that we don't need him and we're gonna be even better on ST next year.

 

[SOHusker11]

Are they looking at Ek for DC?

I can't imagine any way they would. He hasn't been mentioned anywhere. Their fans would riot.

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

Anyone every consider that despite Eckler being good at Special Teams, he might be a giant pain in the ass to have on staff and that's why he moves around so often?

This. I love eck, but how much he moves around it’s clearly a partially
Him thing

 

[Flabio]

If Rhule is making $7M a year to be a CEO type head coach, hard to have much sympathy if he can't deal with it

Like honestly he could be Mark Mangino wiping his ass with shower towels, if he puts out a top 25 special teams unit he's coming back

$8.5mm last season, 2027 $11mm. He’s top 15 for HC salary.

 

[vailhusker]

$8.5mm last season, 2027 $11mm. He’s top 15 for HC salary.

I should have been a cfb coach. Get paid millions to coach and if you're shit they pay you millions to go away. Win-Win situation.

 

[NVHusker27]

Are they looking at Ek for DC?

Absolutely not. Lincoln Riley is on the hot seat at USC. If he hired a defensive coordinator who hasn't held the role since 2016 at North Texas he could gone by next year

 

[Flabio]

I should have been a cfb coach. Get paid millions to coach and if you're shit they pay you millions to go away. Win-Win situation.

They need a way lower base and then all incentives. It is beyond out of control.

 

[PonyBoy]

To be fair there are no direct flights to LAX from Omaha or Lincoln

American has non-stop OMA-LAX.

Alaskan had it too at one point, not sure if they still do.

 

[Kinish]

this guy is drunk

 

[Flabio]

Wtf is he talking about at 0:51 to 1:05? There is a lot of attention on the program which makes the job unusually hard?

 

[Lionsfan93]

Anyone every consider that despite Eckler being good at Special Teams, he might be a giant pain in the ass to have on staff and that's why he moves around so often?

This is what I have been starting to think for a little while now too. We all have worked with "that guy."

Didn't things sour between him and Bo too before he left the first time?

 

[HuskerHusaria]

Heard he and Matt didn't jive and that you could see it during games. Sounds like MR is an absolute jackass

 

[BusterScruggs]

Still trying to digest this one. Did special teams not help us win games we shouldn’t have this season?

 

[macmoolah]

Still trying to digest this one. Did special teams not help us win games we shouldn’t have this season?

Special Teams absolutely helped us win, and arguably won us two more games.

I have no inside info, but this quote reads like Matt didn't like the attention Ekeler got.

 

[Snockered69]

Still trying to digest this one. Did special teams not help us win games we shouldn’t have this season?

Preacher bois ego is going full TV preacher boi. We have our very own Joel Olsteen and he’ll make out robbing us of our cash.

Funny how he just cant shut his mouth on certain issues isnt it?

We ought to create a “Matt Rhule” username and put a sandy vagina tag on it. Seems like he has the common ozempic side effect of sandy scratchy dry vagina.

 

[COYS]

Holy shit, Rhule turned out to be an insecure, bitch. Guy can’t handle his special teams coach becoming hugely popular with the fans and team, so makes up some fake bullshit about “glory of the special teams.” The team loved Ek in his short time here.

Becoming a pattern with Rhule blowing up relationships with coaches who become popular with fanbase or get too much credit/love from media. He did the same shit with Tony White.

 

[Carm]

Special Teams absolutely helped us win, and arguably won us two more games.

I have no inside info, but this quote reads like Matt didn't like the attention Ekeler got.

It reads to me more like he is accusing Ek of trying to get the attention instead of having the focus be on the entire team