Matt Rhule and Nebraska Football Deserve Each Other

I’ve experienced so much joy this season watching the world realize Matt Rhule is a scammer who has no idea how to coach a winning football program and now I am being punished for my hubris as Rhule will be the new head coach of my Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Nebraska is hiring Matt Rhule as their new head coach. It will be an 8-year deal, per @BruceFeldmanCFB. pic.twitter.com/h6xT8VqKoO

— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 26, 2022

Well, fuck.

An 8-year contract?? Am I the only one who sees through Matt Rhule?

Rhule coached 38 games for the Carolina Panthers. The team won 11 times. His .289 winning percentage ranks him 260th out of 289 people to have coached at least 30 NFL games.

The front office gave him Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Darnold, Cam Newton, Baker Mayfield and PJ Walker. Rhule shrugged and had no idea what to do with these guys who showed they can play before Rhule handed them his shitty playbook and they suddenly forgot which team to throw the ball to.

Now, there are a lot of people who will say ‘oh, he’s just a college coach’ to excuse how atrocious he was in the NFL and there’s certainly precedent for guys dominating the NCAA and having no idea how to do the same in the NFL.

Nick Saban is arguably the greatest coach in the history of college football and went 15-17 coaching the Miami Dolphins before returning to the NCAA and turning Alabama into a two-decade long dynasty.

But Matt Rhule is NOT Nick Saban and the stories of his successes at the college level are treating exaggerated.

In Rhule’s first year in charge of Temple, the team went 2-10. In his final year, they finished 10-4. Those 4 losses were to Army, Penn State, Memphis and Wake Forest. The Penn State loss is understandable and no one expects Temple to go undefeated but they weren’t offensive juggernauts or anything like that. It was clearly a gig to get to a bigger school.

So he was hired by Baylor and in his first season with the team, he won once. Yes, he took a team that was 7-6 and made them 1-11. So Rhule apologists are correct. He can differently turn around a program.

The next season they’d return to 7-6 before going 11-3 and Rhule was swarmed with NFL offers for some reason. The man was 47-43 in his college coaching career was the Giants and Panthers were fighting over him. Ok.

And of course this scammer ends up with Nebraska of all schools. The former powerhouse has been turned into scheduled fodder for the rest of the Big 10 teams to show up and get a quick conference W of off before they go home and *really* try against their next opponents.

Last time Nebraska tried to hire a hot coach it was Scott Frost who was riding off his previous success at UCF where he went undefeated and could’ve potentially competed for a National Championship if his quarterback’s bones didn’t evaporate.

It was a beautiful story. Former Huskers QB has returned to save the program. He went 16-31 and was fired this year.

These big name guys don’t want to go to Nebraska and do the actual work of recruiting local 300-pound farm boys who lift cows over their heads so all of those stud offensive linemen go to Wisconsin or Iowa and Nebraska is left with the scraps.

Does anyone really think Rhule will be out in the cornfields trying to get the next Brock Lesnar to commit to Nebraska? No one sees Nebraska as a powerhouse anymore therefore every coach that gets the position is using it as a stepping stone to get to a larger program much like Rhule did with Temple to get to Baylor and then the NFL.

I don’t know who the answer is at head coach but as long as Nebraska refuses to acknowledge that it’s not the 90’s anymore and no one gives a shit about them, they will continue to get scammed by guys like Matt Rhule.

I wonder who will be the Cornhuskers head coach in 2 years when Rhule moves on to Texas.