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Bussin with the Boys - Matt Rhule
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I jotted down some quotes/cliffs for anybody who doesn't have a chance to check out the entire thing because it was truly an incredible interview. This is obviously a little bit paraphrased and edited for clarity but I tried my best to get most of the good stuff:
“When I walk across campus at Nebraska and feel that wind whipping through… I wanna play home games in December and January when the Playoff expands and has on-campus games. Let’s play football in that.”
“I’m so much better for having gone through the experience in Carolina. Having the chance to coach in the NFL was cool and all, but to get fired to get made fun of and become a meme and all that stuff, that either breaks you or turns you into something supernatural. Not saying I’m supernatural, but it’s been really good for me to go through that and I’m working harder than ever because of it.”
Talking about how getting fired affected his family:
“Sometimes as parents the mistake we make is trying to protect your kids TOO much, but we can’t protect them from everything because it’s coming no matter what. If you protect them from everything then adversity comes in their life and they don’t know how to react. I’ve been coach of the year, and I’ve been fired, and it’s up to me to be the same guy when I come home after the games.
I love football, it’s my passion, but my purpose in life is to be a great man, a great husband, a great father. And I have to live up to that in the hardest moments. So when I got fired, I had to decide if I wanted to take my kids to school or sit at home and feel sorry for myself. And I wanted to let them see what it truly means to be a good man, and to be who you say you are. I try to lean into it and have the hard conversations with them.”
College vs. NFL and coach/player relationships being important
“I have good memories from the Panthers, I loved watching those guys play the rest of the season, they had some of the best players and coaches I’ve ever been around. When I got fired, some Panthers players and a lot of my former college players reached out to me, some guys even showed up to my house to check in on me and my family, and I was like ‘ya know what, I crave that, I wanna get back to that.’
So, I’m gonna push them, I wanna work them hard, I’m old school, but that doesn’t ever mean I have to demean anybody. I don’t ever wanna throw anybody under the bus, or ever say ‘well we don’t have this or that, or it’s this group’s fault,’ I always feel like that’s my job. You wanna lead, get out in front man, take the bullets for your guys. I think if you do that, you have a chance to affect some of those guys’ lives.”
“The coaches I look up to the most, Andy Reid, Bill Belichick, guys like that – by the way those are the first guys who reach out to guys like me when we get fired, they’re classy as can be – they went somewhere as head coaches, then went through what I went through, and their best days were ahead of them. So when I came to Nebraska I was like ‘can we do it here?’ and I walked around and saw everything and I said ‘I’m gonna come here and make sure my best days are ahead of me.’”
“If you see a team who lost their coach who are still battling, and they’re sticking together even when they’re out of bowl contention, that’s half of the battle right there. If you go into Cockeye, and Cockeye needs to win to go to the Big 10 championship, and you beat them… there’s something in that locker room.”
“I wanna run the ball, and I wanna play defense, and some fanbases don’t really like that! Some fanbases, if you’re not going no-huddle spread they don’t wanna come to the game. Nebraska fans want us to run the ball and play defense! They want us to dominate the line of scrimmage and play physical, and that’s who I’ve always been, so those things all came together.
And the other thing was, can we recruit here? And I looked around at Michigan and Ohio State and Penn State and I believe we can recruit the way they do, and if we get good players here we’ll coach them hard and I think we’ll find a way to win. I want to go out there and make it a battle of physical wills, and I think that will resonate with the people in Nebraska. And finally, I’ve been married 24 years, my wife knows me better than I know myself, she knows how I like my football, and I’ve learned to listen to her, she said ‘this is the place for you.’”
NIL/Transfer portal
“I believe in the transfer portal, I believe guys should have a chance to go where they want to go, I believe in NIL and that guys should be able to make some money off of their name. I just think sometimes adults will take advantage of a rule meant to help a young person and it gets turned into something it doesn’t have to be. Let’s not abuse it, we’re supposed to be the adults and setting a good example.
I shouldn’t be calling a guy on your roster saying ‘hey come play for me!’ If a guy’s unhappy and wants to go into the portal that’s fine, if he’s happy where he’s at, let him be happy there. Sometimes if we do this stuff, tamper with a kid on another team, sometimes we mess their lives up and take them out of a good situation, and we’re responsible for that as the adults... Football has opened a lot of doors for me, I want my guys to have doors open to them as well.”
How to sell recruits on Lincoln in the modern era
“I don’t try to convince anybody anymore. I just try to tell people what plans we have for them, and what we have at Nebraska. When I talk to recruits I’m like ‘if you wanna be a lawyer, do you go to medical school? No. If you wanna be a doctor do you go to law school? No. So if you wanna play in the NFL why wouldn’t you go somewhere that’s gonna prepare you for the NFL? If you wanna be an NFL d-lineman, come play for Pot Roast Terrance Knighton who played for 8 years and coached in the NFL. Come play for us! Our strength coach came from the NFL, I have NFL experience, go somewhere that has a plan for you academically and socially and can get you ready for the NFL. Everyone can talk slick, here’s our actual plan for you in our program.
And one thing that never changes in recruiting is that when the current players can tell the recruits that we mean what we say, that’s when we’re gonna start to win. And as for Lincoln, we’ve got guys on visits this weekend, it’s 15 degrees out, I’m not gonna lie to them, this is what it is man! Can you do it or not? If you can’t handle this you’re probably not right for us”
“I’m a big believer in ping pong! You have to put your phone down when you play, you can’t have your earphones in when you play it, I’ve seen it transform locker rooms. So I put ping pong tables everywhere, in the lounge, everywhere. I’ve seen it go from like ‘nah I don’t really talk to him…’ to ‘Oh you’re good and you’re good? Let’s play each other!’ I just love the game.
(Compton asks him about other teams losing and getting ping pong tables or other stuff taken away after losses)
“C’mon, what are we talkin about here? You lose a game because you jump offsides or a coach tries to get clever with a bunch of new plays, I mean… don’t we want guys to be around each other? That’s hard now in the era of phones sometimes, you have everyone looking at their phones all day. So anything I can do whether it’s food, golf, you know how much fun that is to just get to know guys as people?
I wanna spend time with the guys, I don’t wanna sit in my office all day lookin at a computer, I wanna hang out with the fellas! I’m always gonna be the coach, I’m 47, almost 48, so I’m not gonna try to relate on things I can’t relate on, but let’s go. I’ll fight you to the death on the ping pong table! You wanna play racquetball, let’s compete! That builds relationships… I can’t play pool though, I dunno, I can’t make it go where I want it to go...”
“Sometimes in recruiting we coaches will just say to each other: ‘oh he's one of us...’ I don’t care about how you do your hair, I don’t care what type of music you listen to, how you dress, I care about how you do your football and how you treat people. I’ve made enough mistakes in the past trying to chase people and getting seduced by talent. There’s a lot of people only wanting to know what’s in it for them, so it’s on me as a coach to say ‘this is how we do it here.’”
“I cannot wait for our first home game. I walk by that field when I get in to work in the mornings and it’s like… I’m gonna coach here. It’s kinda like, humbling! Like hey, you better get your ass to work and make sure we’re ready to go! Because I want all these people to see a team that they really like.”
“The kids in these next recruiting classes have a chance to have a legacy. You get to Nebraska, you walk by all the All Americans, the Heisman trophies, it can feel like you’ll never be the first person to do anything because it’s all been done here. But when a program like this hits some adversity, the people who show up now, they’re gonna be remembered for a long, long time.”
“When I walk across campus at Nebraska and feel that wind whipping through… I wanna play home games in December and January when the Playoff expands and has on-campus games. Let’s play football in that.”
“I’m so much better for having gone through the experience in Carolina. Having the chance to coach in the NFL was cool and all, but to get fired to get made fun of and become a meme and all that stuff, that either breaks you or turns you into something supernatural. Not saying I’m supernatural, but it’s been really good for me to go through that and I’m working harder than ever because of it.”
Talking about how getting fired affected his family:
“Sometimes as parents the mistake we make is trying to protect your kids TOO much, but we can’t protect them from everything because it’s coming no matter what. If you protect them from everything then adversity comes in their life and they don’t know how to react. I’ve been coach of the year, and I’ve been fired, and it’s up to me to be the same guy when I come home after the games.
I love football, it’s my passion, but my purpose in life is to be a great man, a great husband, a great father. And I have to live up to that in the hardest moments. So when I got fired, I had to decide if I wanted to take my kids to school or sit at home and feel sorry for myself. And I wanted to let them see what it truly means to be a good man, and to be who you say you are. I try to lean into it and have the hard conversations with them.”
College vs. NFL and coach/player relationships being important
“I have good memories from the Panthers, I loved watching those guys play the rest of the season, they had some of the best players and coaches I’ve ever been around. When I got fired, some Panthers players and a lot of my former college players reached out to me, some guys even showed up to my house to check in on me and my family, and I was like ‘ya know what, I crave that, I wanna get back to that.’
So, I’m gonna push them, I wanna work them hard, I’m old school, but that doesn’t ever mean I have to demean anybody. I don’t ever wanna throw anybody under the bus, or ever say ‘well we don’t have this or that, or it’s this group’s fault,’ I always feel like that’s my job. You wanna lead, get out in front man, take the bullets for your guys. I think if you do that, you have a chance to affect some of those guys’ lives.”
“The coaches I look up to the most, Andy Reid, Bill Belichick, guys like that – by the way those are the first guys who reach out to guys like me when we get fired, they’re classy as can be – they went somewhere as head coaches, then went through what I went through, and their best days were ahead of them. So when I came to Nebraska I was like ‘can we do it here?’ and I walked around and saw everything and I said ‘I’m gonna come here and make sure my best days are ahead of me.’”
“If you see a team who lost their coach who are still battling, and they’re sticking together even when they’re out of bowl contention, that’s half of the battle right there. If you go into Cockeye, and Cockeye needs to win to go to the Big 10 championship, and you beat them… there’s something in that locker room.”
“I wanna run the ball, and I wanna play defense, and some fanbases don’t really like that! Some fanbases, if you’re not going no-huddle spread they don’t wanna come to the game. Nebraska fans want us to run the ball and play defense! They want us to dominate the line of scrimmage and play physical, and that’s who I’ve always been, so those things all came together.
And the other thing was, can we recruit here? And I looked around at Michigan and Ohio State and Penn State and I believe we can recruit the way they do, and if we get good players here we’ll coach them hard and I think we’ll find a way to win. I want to go out there and make it a battle of physical wills, and I think that will resonate with the people in Nebraska. And finally, I’ve been married 24 years, my wife knows me better than I know myself, she knows how I like my football, and I’ve learned to listen to her, she said ‘this is the place for you.’”
NIL/Transfer portal
“I believe in the transfer portal, I believe guys should have a chance to go where they want to go, I believe in NIL and that guys should be able to make some money off of their name. I just think sometimes adults will take advantage of a rule meant to help a young person and it gets turned into something it doesn’t have to be. Let’s not abuse it, we’re supposed to be the adults and setting a good example.
I shouldn’t be calling a guy on your roster saying ‘hey come play for me!’ If a guy’s unhappy and wants to go into the portal that’s fine, if he’s happy where he’s at, let him be happy there. Sometimes if we do this stuff, tamper with a kid on another team, sometimes we mess their lives up and take them out of a good situation, and we’re responsible for that as the adults... Football has opened a lot of doors for me, I want my guys to have doors open to them as well.”
How to sell recruits on Lincoln in the modern era
“I don’t try to convince anybody anymore. I just try to tell people what plans we have for them, and what we have at Nebraska. When I talk to recruits I’m like ‘if you wanna be a lawyer, do you go to medical school? No. If you wanna be a doctor do you go to law school? No. So if you wanna play in the NFL why wouldn’t you go somewhere that’s gonna prepare you for the NFL? If you wanna be an NFL d-lineman, come play for Pot Roast Terrance Knighton who played for 8 years and coached in the NFL. Come play for us! Our strength coach came from the NFL, I have NFL experience, go somewhere that has a plan for you academically and socially and can get you ready for the NFL. Everyone can talk slick, here’s our actual plan for you in our program.
And one thing that never changes in recruiting is that when the current players can tell the recruits that we mean what we say, that’s when we’re gonna start to win. And as for Lincoln, we’ve got guys on visits this weekend, it’s 15 degrees out, I’m not gonna lie to them, this is what it is man! Can you do it or not? If you can’t handle this you’re probably not right for us”
“I’m a big believer in ping pong! You have to put your phone down when you play, you can’t have your earphones in when you play it, I’ve seen it transform locker rooms. So I put ping pong tables everywhere, in the lounge, everywhere. I’ve seen it go from like ‘nah I don’t really talk to him…’ to ‘Oh you’re good and you’re good? Let’s play each other!’ I just love the game.
(Compton asks him about other teams losing and getting ping pong tables or other stuff taken away after losses)
“C’mon, what are we talkin about here? You lose a game because you jump offsides or a coach tries to get clever with a bunch of new plays, I mean… don’t we want guys to be around each other? That’s hard now in the era of phones sometimes, you have everyone looking at their phones all day. So anything I can do whether it’s food, golf, you know how much fun that is to just get to know guys as people?
I wanna spend time with the guys, I don’t wanna sit in my office all day lookin at a computer, I wanna hang out with the fellas! I’m always gonna be the coach, I’m 47, almost 48, so I’m not gonna try to relate on things I can’t relate on, but let’s go. I’ll fight you to the death on the ping pong table! You wanna play racquetball, let’s compete! That builds relationships… I can’t play pool though, I dunno, I can’t make it go where I want it to go...”
“Sometimes in recruiting we coaches will just say to each other: ‘oh he's one of us...’ I don’t care about how you do your hair, I don’t care what type of music you listen to, how you dress, I care about how you do your football and how you treat people. I’ve made enough mistakes in the past trying to chase people and getting seduced by talent. There’s a lot of people only wanting to know what’s in it for them, so it’s on me as a coach to say ‘this is how we do it here.’”
“I cannot wait for our first home game. I walk by that field when I get in to work in the mornings and it’s like… I’m gonna coach here. It’s kinda like, humbling! Like hey, you better get your ass to work and make sure we’re ready to go! Because I want all these people to see a team that they really like.”
“The kids in these next recruiting classes have a chance to have a legacy. You get to Nebraska, you walk by all the All Americans, the Heisman trophies, it can feel like you’ll never be the first person to do anything because it’s all been done here. But when a program like this hits some adversity, the people who show up now, they’re gonna be remembered for a long, long time.”
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If they think this is an obvious shot at Deion then maybe it should be Deion taking a look at himself. If those comments pertain to you then perhaps you have a problem.
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It's like his intro and signing day pressers when everything he said was interpreted as some veiled shot at Coach Scrote
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He seems like a man who really knows himself & has a process that he will follow with success or failure. It’s more grounded than we have had in quite some time. The main ingredient is that Nebraska now has the patience to follow him & let him build
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💯 more impressed by Rhule every time he gets behind a mic. His talk on working through getting fired+adversity is the exact sort of thing you want in a leader at any level, any org.
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I LOL’d at that.
They were talking about DR without mentioning DR. The Boys kept dropping stronger and stronger hints and Rhule tried to stay more neutral, but still made a great pitch for any hypothetical croots they were talking about.
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At the 2:07:55 mark (of the full audio podcast, not sure if the video is different) when they are singing the Bussin Bowl contract, does Rhule let the f-bomb slip, saying “This if fucking history, brother”?
It sounded like him, but it could have been Will.
It sounded like him, but it could have been Will.
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If you watch on YouTube I think it's Taylor.
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It is... He and Will love to drop f bombs... Crazy that Rhule could be talking with them for that long and not let something slip. I'd have a hard time not dropping one or two.
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