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Nebraska coach Matt Rhule participates in viral TikTok trend

IMG_6598by:Nick Kosko•03/31/25•

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Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule doesn’t like Tik Tok, or does he? The Huskers leader recently revealed he made his players do a “Tik Tok workout” after players were filming inside the facility.

So sure, that seems reasonable, especially fi you want players to be off their phones and focus on football and academics. It’s a certain standard.

But Rhule was caught on a Tik Tok with another Nebraska athlete. Volleyball player Harper Murray filmed a Tik Tok with Rhule and even took a playful jab at the head coach for not liking the social media app.

Whatever that dance is, Rhule was doing it. The coach at least has moves! Maybe he can move back on over to the facility and do that workout with his players next time.

After recently downloading TikTok to discover what his nine-year-old daughter was up to on the wildly-popular social media app, Rhule learned the TikTok influence had already infiltrated the Nebraska football locker room, much to the 50-year-old Cornhuskers head coach’s chagrin. Naturally, this led to his initial disdain.

“I walked into the training room the other day and Harper Murray, our All-American volleyball player was sitting there with my 9-year-old. She said, ‘Coach Rhule, we’re going to go do a TikTok’ – now I’m anti-TikTok, I won’t let the kids have it – and my 9-year-old is like, ‘What are you going to say to Harper?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, have fun,’” Rhule revealed during a Thursday appearance on The Pat McAfee Show at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. “So I’ve had to download TikTok and I found my daughter all over (it), she finds people in the facility, I thought I saw 35 of my football payers doing TikToks. (And), one of them did it in the facility, which is a hard no. ”

With this new knowledge, Rhule had the Nebraska strength staff send a definitive message about players spending too much time on social media by putting the new freshmen through the offseason ringer.

“So our strength coach did a TikTok workout this morning with the freshmen, and they were pushing plates with their bios and all their cool stuff they love to post on there,” Rhule said as the McAfee crew broke out in laughter. “But they were doing wall sits at the end, and every freshman had to get out and do a 10-second TikTok dance while the rest of the guys did the wall sit. Welcome to old school.”