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I for one am shocked by this news.
Running List of Coaches Leaving NU 2024 Edition
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Running List of Coaches Leaving NU 2024 Edition
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Dana cleans house.
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We could hire back any number of former alcoholic Nebraska WR coaches.
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Uncle Gorilla Wideouts come on down.
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Donnie too?
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GUARANTEED
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Tim reads the fucking future. He knows the date each and every one of us will die.
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Anyone have an OWH sub? Curious who is confirmed as staying.
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Guessing Donny. Only one he praised. I don’t think you guys understand how huge his hire is.
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On departure-filled day, Nebraska football signs Dana Holgorsen as offensive coordinator
Sam McKewon breaks down Tony White leaving Nebraska for another defensive coordinator job at Florida State.LINCOLN — On a day when its defensive coordinator and multiple Blackshirts left the program, Nebraska football held on to Holgo.
NU announced a two-year deal with Dana Holgorsen, the former West Virginia and Houston head coach hired in November to coordinate NU’s offense and call plays. The new deal makes permanent what been an interim role for a coach whose successful three-game stint that helped Nebraska football clinch its first bowl berth since 2016.
“We are excited that Dana Holgorsen has agreed to be our offensive coordinator moving forward,” Rhule said Monday night in a statement. “Dana is one of the elite offensive minds in football, and the progress we made in our final three games provides a glimpse of the potential of our offense under his direction. We look forward to Dana leading our offense into the bowl game and building for the 2025 season.”
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The deal will pay Holgorsen $1.2 million per year. Laid out over monthly payments, it’s more than the $66,667 he got paid to run NU’s offense in November, but less than the $1.4 million made by Marcus Satterfield, demoted to tight ends coach when Holgorsen arrived Nebraska could land Holgorsen at a lower-than-market rate because Houston, which fired Holgorsen in December 2023, is still paying his buyout.
Rhule hired Holgorsen for a consultant job in early November that quickly morphed, during a bye week, into Holgorsen calling plays for the team.
“I tried to fix it, I hadn’t been able to fix it, so I called someone I knew who could fix it,” Rhule said in early November. “And I think Dana will fix it.”
Over three games, he simplified the scheme, reopened competition at several positions and helped quarterback Dylan Raiola completed 71.3% of his passes.
“We kind of go from one-dimensional to, we can do whatever,” Raiola said of NU’s reimagined offense, which scored 44 points against Wisconsin to help clinch the bowl berth and break a 10-game losing streak.
Running back Emmett Johnson was arguably the biggest beneficiary of Holgorsen’s arrival, averaging 128 all-purpose yards over the final three games.
“He keeps the game simple and allows me to do me,” Johnson said.
While not a slam dunk, Holgorsen’s retention seemed likely when Holgorsen said he expected to coordinate NU’s offense during a bowl game and had more “fun” calling the Wisconsin game than he had “in a long time.”
As Nebraska kept its OC, it lost defensive coordinator Tony White to Florida State, where he’ll reportedly get a three-year deal to help resurrect a Seminole defense that ranked as the ACC’s worst against the run. FSU coach Mike Norvell, in the throes of a 2-10 season, fired his offensive and defensive coordinator in mid-November, launching his search then.
Replacement options include Husker defensive backs coach John Butler, who arrived last summer after a six-year stint as the Buffalo Bills defensive backs coach. Butler previously coordinated Penn State’s defense in 2013.
Whoever Rhule hires will face a defense depleted of its starters, be it players who exhausted their eligibility, like Ty Robinson, John Bullock and Isaac Gifford or Blackshirts who intend to transfer.
Defensive lineman Jimari Butler and linebacker Mikai Gbayor both entered the portal Monday after logging 22 and 49 tackles, respectively, in 2024. It’s possible both could follow White to FSU.
They’re joined by linebacker Stefon Thompson, who had 27 tackles in 2024, reserve defensive lineman Vincent Jackson and running back Gabe Ervin, who slid down the depth chart after multiple season-ending injuries.
Overseeing a roster north of 140 players in 2024, Rhule anticipated mass transfers in December as the NCAA mandates teams limit their roster size to 105 in 2025.
“You’re going to have some really good kids that aren’t going to have a place and it’s going to be really, really hard,” Rhule said Nov. 18.
But Nebraska locked up the playcaller Rhule deemed crucial enough to NU’s future that he reshuffled his staff midseason. Holgorsen said he wasn’t ready to join Nebraska’s staff last winter — his firing from Houston was too fresh — but he quickly got “bored” and antsy working as a weekday consultant for TCU. Rhule called, Holgorsen arrived, and now he’ll oversee the Husker offense.
“The culture that Coach Rhule has here and the players, I call it the ‘give a crap’ level,” Holgorsen said Nov. 26. “How much they care and how much they want to play, enjoy playing, enjoy practicing, enjoy the process, allows me to coach the way I want to coach.”
Another NU assistant, receivers coach Garret McGuire, is expected to remain at NU in an adjusted role, according to a program source.
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No just read. It’s McGuire in an updated role
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Obviously you don't even believe what you're saying if you don't Capitalize every sentence. #SandyVagina or Illiterate
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Recruiting staff which is fine. He’s relatable to those kids
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One would think so, right? He's going to have a whole new coordinator and a/c staff on both sides of the ball starting next year. One would expect a new special teams coach as well.
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I’m guessing just a show of solidarity.
