Forgive me for not having a great deal of confidence in dragging a 69 year old coach out of retirement to help with 18-21 year olds amidst the free agency portal era in a win-now or else year with a new DC who has 1 year experience back in 2013.

Time will tell. Rhule seems to hinder himself through some sort of confirmation bias. If he ends up making changes only to bring in assistants that other top programs would never hire (based upon their ties to Nebraska, ties to him, etc.), then we should already know how it will end up.

D- The absolute smallest baby step forward. The only silver lining is that Rhule is forced to face the failure that is his creation: OC sucked, STC sucked, position coaches that sucked, talent evaluation that sucked, and game management issues that sucked. Sneak a 8 win season into 2024 and...

OL keeps DR clean, NU D limits run enough… NU-44 UI-25

Rhule has positives, recruiting being one of them. He thought he could get it done at NU (largely) with his guys. He didn’t. Conclusively. Rhule could be a successful executive HC in my opinion but that entirely depends on his offseason moves to improve his coaching staff. He already...

Ron Brown needs to get the boot as much as Foley.

If you can’t win 6+ games at NU in any given year (based upon the resources available - especially now in the portal/NIL era), then there should be no allowance for any coaching staff. True last year, especially true this year. Rhule’s failures and strengths/weaknesses are now obvious. He...

6 wins in year-2. If that was simply a product of poor personnel (& not poor coaching), then I would consider it a step forward. But that’s isn’t accurate for NU. Year-2 is definitely a combination of poor coaching and poor personnel. For that reason, given the level of investment and...

In September, on the onset of conference play, Rhule stated that the conference games was the where the real season starts. “We’ll find out where we are at.”, he said. Well, NU is 2-4 in that timespan. In the wins, an average 21 points scored. In each game, the consistent theme was subpar...

DR is the only shred of hope that the NU program & fanbase can collectively hold onto. If that is lost, then NU is truly dead and Rhule will be faced with even more open seats and distrust next year.

I view OL as a principle weakness of this year’s team. How can you not given our inability to control the LOS against any level of talent that NU has faced this year? What premier level talent does NU have? Who has Donnie recruited to address that talent deficiency? What does the OL look...

In Rhule’s own strategic mission (NU as an NFL style program, right or wrong), what does the HC and GM do when they have the #1 draft pick, elite QB to build around…they provide that guy the best OC available to match his game & style. Satt isn’t that guy. Not for DR, not for anyone at this...

At this stage in Rhule’s tenure, I would be satisfied if the team looked ugly in winning the games it should win while losing one it shouldn’t (Illinois) & winning one it shouldn’t (USC?). If NU gets drilled two weeks in a row and then follows that up with wins again UCLA & USC, then all is not...

I don’t believe that these random examples are quite apples to apples to NU’s situation. In each example, the losing team was coming off of a high degree of season long success. Outside of the first half of the Colorado game, NU has struggled and stalled every week. There are significant...

No defense of this as an OC. What an utter failure of a gameplan (& an O identity).