He handled this just fine. Advocating for his players.
Rhule is smart enough to know that he can bitch about those two calls because they were unequivocally incorrect and game-deciding calls.
So in his mind, what the hell is the B1G gonna do? “Fine” him and bring more attention to their shitty officiating?
Hell, if I’m Rhule, I’d double down and bring up a guy getting tackled when the ball was in the air and also letting 10 seconds run off the clock when we are trying to get in field goal range with 11 seconds left.
All calls egregiously wrong. All calls potentially game deciding. Sitting back and telling his players “oh sorry guys sometimes you get unlucky” is a great way to send the message that you are weak and don’t have their back.
And as far as the “Michigan scouted us” goes, he’s presented in the context that Ryan Walters backed his guys up for it so if Rhules guys wanna know if he has their back, he’s gonna let them know he has their back.
Nothing wrong here. Just calling out some terrible mistakes by an incompetent organization.