Marcus Satterfield - Who is he?

[...TrueColors...]

Good morning gents -

Diving right in here, there are always a lot of factors that go into judging people’s job performances at this level. From talent and resources to injuries there is a ton to consider.

But this is a bottom line business, and the bottom line is that our offense hasn’t been good enough.

But why? What is the why behind that? Is it players? Coaches? We’ll get to what I believe the answer to be.

When this staff first got hired I was extremely excited when I heard Rhule’s pool for assistants was in the top 3 in the conference. Rhule excited me, but people I speak with off the board probably got annoyed with how much I asked “Who else?” meaning who is he bringing with him. The only metric that we’ve found to be predictive of a coaches success is who he brings with him and what their track record is.

So when we get to Marcus Satterfield it’s not good. Below are his 5 full seasons as an offensive coordinator in terms of total offense and where he’s at for year 6:

2013 Temple - 88
2014 Temple - 100
2021 South Carolina - 106
2022 South Carolina - 72
2023 Nebraska - 123
2024 Nebraska - 96

If you average all 6 years together you’re at an average finish of 97.5. Crazy enough that means this year is his baseline for how good his offenses are.

If you remove the outliners (72 and 123) crazy enough you’re at 97 and some change.

So the offense we are seeing from this Husker team is exactly what we should expect from Marcus Satterfield.

Can we make the case we don’t have enough talent? I’m not sure you can adequately build that case given that no matter where Satterfield has been his offenses typically rank 97th.

Injuries? Which ones? We’ve actually been fairly healthy this year.

So we could get into a number of other things with these numbers. But it comes down to this offense is operating at the exact level we can expect from Marcus Satterfield and we aren’t judging who he is on a small sample size.

One has to ask what Rhule thought he saw in Satterfield? This is a bottom line business and the bottom line is really bad due in large part to a decision that was made to bring on a guy who’s offenses are 97th best in the nation.

 

[Poor_and_Stupid]

*The only thing that could have been going through Rhule’s mind when he hired Shitterfield.

 

[...TrueColors...]

*The only thing that could have been going through Rhule’s mind when he hired Shitterfield.

To be completely honest I’ve got no idea why Satterfield is here and why we spent top 10 money on him. He’s at worst as bad as Brian Ferentz. At best, he’s one step slightly above.

 

[Poor_and_Stupid]

To be completely honest I’ve got no idea why Satterfield is here and why we spent top 10 money on him. He’s at worst as bad as Brian Ferentz. At best, he’s one step slightly above.

It’s the Nebraska brain rot. It doesn’t allow coaches here to make coherent decisions. If Rhule had gone anywhere else he probably would have put together a rockstar staff. This is our perpetual reality. Misery until the sweet release of death.

 

[Tsakoi]

Can we even call it an offense?

Immediately after the ball is snapped it stops looking like college football and resembles something that I could only imagine would be 11 people who had never played football before being shown a YouTube video of football and then told to go out and imitate it.

Another added benefit is that while we look like a squad of baby giraffes stumbling through their first steps we made 2-5 UCLA look like a playoff contender.

Bonus point:They would have shut us out had they not been so excited to celebrate the fact that they had their foot buried in our ass. The only mistakes they made all night were to get penalized for being excited at how badly they were stomping us.

 

[Herbie]

Satt is ass.
But I also doubt Rhule moves on from him.
Rhule will have 6 years left on an 8 year 74 million dollar contract.

There is absolutely no pressure on him to make changes. He’s not fighting for an extension, his life, money etc. he can’t start the next season and don’t all over again with no threat to be fired. And if he is for some reason he gets 5 more years of pay guaranteed at an insanely high rate

 

[...TrueColors...]

Satt is ass.
But I also doubt Rhule moves on from him.
Rhule will have 6 years left on an 8 year 74 million dollar contract.

There is absolutely no pressure on him to make changes. He’s not fighting for an extension, his life, money etc. he can’t start the next season and don’t all over again with no threat to be fired. And if he is for some reason he gets 5 more years of pay guaranteed at an insanely high rate

I think you’ve lost your god damned mind.

 

[Herbie]

I think you’ve lost your god damned mind.

Nah. Fat contracts never seem to work for coaches at new schools.

 

[...TrueColors...]

Nah. Fat contracts never seem to work for coaches at new schools.

“Matt Rhule is on a fat contract so he doesn’t care how good or bad his football team is.”

That’s your argument. The evidence to support this doesn’t exist.

You’ve lost your mind.

 

[Dear_Leader]

So the offense we are seeing from this Husker team is exactly what we should expect from Marcus Satterfield.

All this just points back at Rhule. Makes so little sense his staffing decisions.

 

[...TrueColors...]

All this just points back at Rhule. Makes so little sense his staffing decisions.

Yes it does. The good news is that he’s gotten a lot right in his time here. Finding a new OC fixes this issue. We’ll see if he’s willing to do it. If he isn’t I’m afraid his time here won’t be long.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

Lets just hire Brennan Marion at OC and wreck shit on the B1G

 

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Lets just hire Brennan Marion at OC and wreck shit on the B1G

I’m all for it.

There are hundreds of good schemes we could run. We chose to employ none of them and run what you see now.

 

[Herbie]

“Matt Rhule is on a fat contract so he doesn’t care how good or bad his football team is.”

That’s your argument. The evidence to support this doesn’t exist.

You’ve lost your mind.

Nah. Im arguing complacency is very real.

 

[Juro]

So serious question. Let's assume Don Raiola isn't going to get fired because of his connections. Can a new OC design an offense that tailors better run blocking thus, better runs?

 

[Dell Husker]

We have not had an offensive identity for years. We continue to throw out the most random offensives each drive. We go from pocket passing to I formation to spread the field in screens and then we think we will trick the defense by bringing in Haarberg by running a play where he’s not involved.

 

[Herbie]

So serious question. Let's assume Don Raiola isn't going to get fired because of his connections. Can a new OC design an offense that tailors better run blocking thus, better runs?

We just need a new OC, a couple transfer WRs with 1st round grades, a top 25 CFB rb, and a few nfl quality OL. Only then will Dylan have the tools to succeed

 

[wildcat_husker]

Rhule can’t fire Satt. Coaches have to hire other coaches they have connections to and trust.

That’s why one of the greatest coaches ever — Saban — only hired guys he previously knew and worked with…….

 

[iruletheskool]

If the coaches he hired with a basically unlimited budget are the problem, they aren't the problem.

 

[kenyanfeline]

Satt draws up some neat things from time to time but how he manages the game and how he sequences plays is some of the worst I’ve ever seen.

Good offensive coordinators are thinking ahead. Down and distance. Get this many yards with this play and then this many yards with that play, bait the defense into thinking X and then do Y, etc. Satt on the other hand seems to have a list of plays numbered 1-100 and uses a random number generator to select the plays.