If you think Steve Adazzio was going to keep Temple afloat good luck. Look at what he has done since he left and the recruiting class he brought in while at temple ... Rhule brought in a top recruiting class and put Temple on the map by beating PSU and taking ND to the limit. Baylor was a smoking mess with their scandal and many thinking they might get severe sanctions. No one wanted that job and everything that came with it. We will just disagree, I think Rhule will do quite well at Nebraska after a few years recruiting and getting his players, he is a solid coach who will rebuild Nebraska.
Word is Rhule to Nebraska *edited with some contract info*
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Yeah but did Callahan have CFB experience before Nebby? .
All of this traces back to them firing a 9-3 Frank Solich.
He coached two full seasons.
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8 freaking year deal…..
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Nebraska hires Rhule as coach with 8-year deal
Matt Rhule has been named Nebraska's new football coach, signing an eight-year contract with the school. Rhule replaces Scott Frost.
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8 freaking year deal…..
Nebraska hires Rhule as coach with 8-year deal
Matt Rhule has been named Nebraska's new football coach, signing an eight-year contract with the school. Rhule replaces Scott Frost.
Does he still collect Carolina money? Or is they gone once he signs somewhere else?
Doesn’t look to be details out yet. AP said Nebraska will release details on monday
I think it depends on what Nebby gives him. Carolina is on the hook for so much regardless.
The point is that Rhule didn't turn around bottom feeders. They were both teams that had recently had success. Al golden had already done the heavy lifting for him at temple. And Franklin turning around vandy was more impressive than anything Rhule has done.
Why aren't they hiring the guy that beat the Iowa Inbreds yesterday???
He may do quite well there … he may not. The salient point from my illustration is that he’s been part of 3 organizations that had recent stretches of success, followed by a very brief hiccup. In the 2 cases of college teams, Rhule took over, bottomed them out and then quickly rebounded them to about where they were before the hiccup, or maybe a bit better. In his pro stint he could never right the ship and it continued to sink.
Nebraska’s been pretty bad for a number of years, and even before that they were a perpetual 9-4 type team in their good years. So this seems like a much bigger challenge for him, and there’s no real personal history to indicate he’s a slam dunk to even get them back to that 9-4 team Nebraska used to be. But maybe he meets the challenge. Dunno.
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Gotta wonder what's gonna happen when they top out at 9-3 again.
And Baylor in the middle of the scandal? Piece of cake recruiting and keeping kids from jumping to other teams while death penalty was being floated around? Point is that was more impressive than franklin turning vandy
Good point about Rhule ... First year was not immediate turnaround was second and third years teams made the jump
But there was no death penalty. Not even a scholarship reduction. The psu sanctions were way worse. Again, Franklin's job at psu is more impressive than rhule at baylor.
Baylor had a Heisman winner prior to Rhule.
Vandy can spell Heisman and they have a kid who can recite every winner, but nobody on the field who can compete for it.
Going there he had no idea if that was going to happen. Franklin never finished above 4th place in the eastern division and took over from Johnson who went 1-7 and Franklin went 2-6 ... Never finishing above 4th place in their own division for me is not turning a program around. We just have different parameters for what we call turning a program around. No biggie all good.
You forgot the part where Franklin won 9 games at vandy for two straight seasons in the best league in cfb. That is after having only one winning season since 1982. On what planet is that not turning a team around?
Doesn't matter what Rhule thought he was getting into. He faced basically zero sanctions.
Your parameters sound like moving the goal posts until something is a failure. If you can't label Franklin's 3 years at Vandy as 1) a turnaround 2) a success, it's just looking for a reason to be negative. Nobody said they had a winning record in conference play nor anything else. He got a program that traditionally played the worst football bowl eligible.
No worries though. Keep pounding Rhule.
I definitely don't support that point.
Franklin took an SEC program that had 1 winning season and bowl appearance since 1982, and took them to 3 bowls in 3 seasons, including two 9 win seasons.
Baylor was a top 15 program for multiple years (including numerous top 5 appearance in polls during the season), playing in top bowls, and had a scandal that ended up turning into much of nothing, in terms of punishment from the NCAA, and Rhule just brought them back to that level after cratering them.
Franklin actually dealt with a program that was hammered by the NCAA and, building off what O'Brien did to save this program, he brought it back to some level of national relevance (on the field, not in the papers and the courts).
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I’m certainly no Franklin apologist, but I get why he’s playing kissy face with any decent new job openings. Rhule has done zero anywhere and earns more than everyone but maybe Day in the B1G. It’s bullsh*t.
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There's no money to pay the players they say.I’m certainly no Franklin apologist, but I get why he’s playing kissy face with any decent new job openings. Rhule has done zero anywhere and earns more than everyone but maybe Day in the B1G. It’s bullsh*t.
I give Franklin schtick, but I agree that he’s a better coach than Rhule. I’d rather have James than Matt at Penn State.
But the crazy thing is that Nebby gave Rhule $9 million a year for 8 years coming off a dumpster fire NFL stint. WTF?!
I think James and other coaches have a real gripe about that.
But the crazy thing is that Nebby gave Rhule $9 million a year for 8 years coming off a dumpster fire NFL stint. WTF?!
I think James and other coaches have a real gripe about that.
They probably do, only place I know that can be so damn quiet when their Offense is on the field and I remember when they took over ND that yr they played there. Passionate fan base they are.
They’ll feed those “protein shakes” to the cows before they butcher and eat them instead of digesting them directly now.
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