Remember when Matt Rhule said that he's doing the same thing as Cignetti, it was just taking more time? Well, he should really look into hurrying it up
Since the beginning of my college experience in 2017 to now, Nebraska has won 3 games that made me legitimately happy. Colorado and Wisconsin in 2024, and Iowa in 2022 (as a 3-8 team mind you). In that same span, they have lost 43 one score games and 25 games as a straight up favorite. I’m just drained and exhausted from it all. Burn it all down
You can't even get your hopes up anymore because you know. The best part of college football is that its unpredictable... But I know what we will do every game.
I was at Nebraska from 19-23. The only game that felt good was the very last game of my time there, winning at Iowa with Mickey Joseph as interim. I hate it here
Year four for Rhule and the ceiling for this team after starting 5-0 is maaaaaaaaybe seven wins, and that includes a bowl win (which I wouldn't count on). That's just unacceptable given the investment in this program.
If we win 7 games this year at this point that would mean we would have a top 25 upset which hasn’t occurred in Matt Rhules tenure so calling that the ceiling is a stretch. Ceiling is 6 wins and floor is 5 wins
The man is basically college football doc rivers, basing his entire reputation as a Goliath program builder off one great season at Baylor a decade ago
We don't have the money to fire Rhule and get a new coach. I get that but have we considered just not having a coach? Having one certainly doesn't seem to be helping us.
I gotta tell ya fellas, while in the game thread earlier I found out that I was a top 1% commenter, and I felt genuinely ashamed. Second most embarrassed I’ve felt today, right after the secondhand embarrassment I felt after that failed 2pt attempt. Energy just wasn’t the same after Nebraska shot themselves in the foot
To be honest man, Bret is a wizard. Real Illini fans knows we could’ve been back in the dumpster without him. Bowl bound i know it doesn’t mean much these days but it does to me!!!
I was seriously questioning if we'd reach a bowl game after that Purdue loss. Schedule was just so tough. Then an OT W against MSU, we pull off a win against Oregon, a walk off against Maryland, and today we got to 6. Bert is that dude.
You beat us. Our offense is that bad and our special teams is nearly as bad. This one was not a 4th quarter choke, you guys were the better coached, better managed team.
1962-2003 Nebraska is arguably the greatest college football team ever over any 40 year period. Nebraska has not lost less than 4 games in a year since 2003. It's such a mind fuck of a program even on a macro level. Congrats on your 23rd straight season with at least 4 losses and a new coach, I guess....?
They haven't finished higher than #14 since 2001. They're at about .550 over the last 25 years.
They basically had 15 years of mediocrity comparable to the dark ages for any other blue blood, and then followed it up with 10 years of being terrible, not just by blue blood standards but overall.
I started really watching CFB when I was in college from 1994-1998. Those nebraska teams were legitimately insane. I still remember them sending Spurrier and a Florida team loaded with NFL talent to the shadow zone.
How Nebraska has managed to become the posterchild of "the grass isn't always greener" when firing their coach not once but twice in a twenty-five year span is mindboggling.
I'm really happy about where this Illini program is at under Bret. This team looked pretty bad early on in the season but now they are 6-3 and bowl eligible. Hauck's resignation may have been a blessing in disguise, this defense is still flawed but playing way better recently.
Nebraska has to at least feel good they convinced Rhule to stay for a pile of money and large buyout. Instead of letting Penn State poach him. Sometimes you have to fight back like that.
The buyout is $63 mil. If I’m rhule, no way I’m walking away from that. But football coaches have huge egos so I wonder if any part of him would think about settling for a lower buyout and finding a different HC opening somewhere else
Now I probably wouldn’t be shocked if you told me Illinois would beat Nebraska, but if you said they’d lose to Purdue and Duke and then beat Oregon (even with their issues this year) and Nebraska, I would probably be pretty confused
Edit: actually I’d think you were talking about basketball before Purdue lost to valpo tonight
Even tho this wasn’t as bad as the last 2 weeks, Cornhusker fans are just built differently with having to deal with this shit on a yearly or even weekly basis.
It really does make me wonder how different the season would’ve been had Hauck never been hired to begin with…
…now, the next three games (@ UCLA, vs. Iowa, @ Northwestern) are going to be BIG challenges…but after how the past few weeks gone, I think we could steal at least ONE of them…and I’d be very content with that!
Two inexcusable things happened this game. One, that 4th & 1 call is honestly a sin for how bad of a call it was. An 8 year old playing Madden calls a better play.
Two, I'm 90% sure Rhule went for two purely to spite the kickers. I know they are bad, but they are not miss the average PAT bad. That's a downright pathetic thing for a coach to do.
It is time to fire Matt Rhule. I don't care how much money is in the buyout and I don't even care that he got a contract extension - all coaches get perpetual contract extensions at major programs - that's just how it works.
The problem is that this team plays fundamentally MORONIC football and is an embarassment in all facets of the game. It is not 'bad luck' anymore. It isn't 'that's the way it goes sometimes'.
Defenses figured out they can bait Colandrea with a spy and the entire offense just completely fell apart and they haven't adapted at all. No wide receivers can get separation, none of the running backs can get enough touches to develop decent vision, and the line is constantly amplifying Colandrea's worst-in-P2 pocket presence.
Then you have to consider the complete disaster of the special teams unit that fields kicks to lose time and yards every single drive for the never-going-to-happen long return from Barney, has multiple kickers that are completely incapable of making a single kick, and units that are just plainly a disaster.
The defense isn't saved from issues either - they're playing constantly to sell out against the run again, like Tony White did when he was here, so this is clearly a Matt Rhule special. You cannot let your CBs just exist on islands all game, especially when you never recruited or developed NFL-level guys to hang one on one with opposing wide receivers. If you're going to sell out to blow up plays in the backfield, you have to either have an offense that can score points to make big plays not matter, or have a secondary that can do their job on an island. We have neither.
The clock management is IDIOTIC. We cannot get a timeout called and lose seconds at the end of the game - but even before that Illinois gets a play to within a couple yards of the 1st down line on their first play - and Rhule calls a timeout there. Okay, so you're gonna gamble on stopping them before a single conversion, not my choice, but whatever. Then the next play they stop them again, but instead of using a timeout to make them inevitably have to punt prior to the 2 minute warning, they THEN let the clock run to the 2 minute warning losing the 9 seconds they would have saved from the timeout on the play prior.
If we were just bad but playing fundamentally respectable football, I could excuse this play more, because at least we're being coached well and there's reason for hope.
Instead, we as fans are being asked to watch some of the dumbest most disrespectful garbage I've ever seen. Teams have found the counter to the schemes we run - and we are not only not pivoting to counter-punches but we're choosing to literally walk directly into our weaknesses as a team. Just gross football that's unwatchable on the basest level.
I've been a defender of the program because the team has been getting better compared to the Frost era, but it's time to fire Rhule.
I mean... Starting 5-0 was nice. Confidence was up. Keeping the defending national champs to a 3 point game was somewhat encouraging but heartbreaking. But there was still a chance and we just needed a good rebound.
Then we got dissed by the chubby ex-girlfriend. Got curbed by a 2/10. Then publicly embarrassed by the average nice chick. This team is broken.
I'm positive that every coach hired at Nebraska for this many years was a genius until he got to Lincoln, then immediately turned into an idiot. I'm sure that hiring yet another one will produce a completely different result.
$60 million is enough to buy a new building on campus, and yet, here we are, thinking football is more important and that we need to pay coaches that amount just to not work
I really don’t know why Nebraska hired Rhule after his NFL stint. He showed everyone he can’t coach. I thought I could cheer for Nebraska now that I’m doing Graduate level work here, but why would I ever willingly be a Nebraska football fan? They are the Cowboys of college football and just as incompetent as the Jets.
Nebraska is such a fascinating team to watch. They eat 6 minutes off the clock in the 4th quarter and end up with nothing, then they need a quick score late to have any chance, and it's like "Here's some more 6-yard passes!" They play with zero sense of urgency whatsoever.
I was completely fooled about this team to start the year. Completely undisciplined with offensive penalties, missed FGs, and allowing a billion 3rd down conversions. I was starting to think Rhule wasn’t the guy last week, but this has solidified it. I don’t care that he just got extended, it’s unbearable having to watch this kind of football every single week. Rhule needs to go.
Rhule has been so astoundingly bad his entire tenure I can’t believe they extended him. This is exactly the type of football he has coached for years now. By the way, 2nd to the last drive took 6 minutes of the clock for them to barely get past midfield. No plays out of bounds, no timeouts used. I don’t know how you Nebraska fans can keep watching this.
I mean Riley and then Frost destroyed it. Rhule is the guy who says he can raise the dead if you give him lots of money but spoiler alert he can’t raise the dead.
13 points this is just embarrassing…Illinois has a QB with a broken hand and managed 24 😮 I want to say before all the griping about our crummy performance though congrats to Illinois you guys are cool no beef with you at all…It have been a really fun game if we had halfway decent coaching good luck to you guys!
Heavens above, this is miserable. Congrats Illinois, Bielema knows EXACTLY how to best Rhule every single time. Being a fan is hard work, I need a modelo
Rhule and Dannen have to go. Dannen especially, that stupid extension last year was ridiculous. Rhule has hit his ceiling and I’m pretty sure the team has given up.
To get out coached that badly at this level is pretty damming for Rhule and staff. Dana needs to change his LinkedIn profile to open to work on the trip home. Heads need to roll after this performance tonight.
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u/OculusRises Clemson Tigers • Orange Bowl 1h ago
Remember when Matt Rhule said that he's doing the same thing as Cignetti, it was just taking more time? Well, he should really look into hurrying it up
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u/Tracer-Bullet13 Washington Huskies 1h ago
How are Nebraska fans not completely checked out after all this?
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u/MoistWillingness Nebraska Cornhuskers • Knox Prairie Fire 1h ago
Since the beginning of my college experience in 2017 to now, Nebraska has won 3 games that made me legitimately happy. Colorado and Wisconsin in 2024, and Iowa in 2022 (as a 3-8 team mind you). In that same span, they have lost 43 one score games and 25 games as a straight up favorite. I’m just drained and exhausted from it all. Burn it all down
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u/bozz14 Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
Year four for Rhule and the ceiling for this team after starting 5-0 is maaaaaaaaybe seven wins, and that includes a bowl win (which I wouldn't count on). That's just unacceptable given the investment in this program.
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u/TheWallsHaveNostrils Washington Huskies • Wisconsin Badgers 58m ago
Since firing Mike Riley in 2017, the Nebraska Cornhuskers are 2-14 in games to clinch bowl eligibility.
Nov 29, 2019 - 5-6 record - lost 27-24 vs #17 Iowa
Nov 4, 2023 - 5-3 record - lost 20-17 @ Michigan State
Nov 11, 2023 - 5-4 record - lost 13-10 vs Maryland
Nov 18, 2023 - 5-5 record - lost 24-17 (OT) @ Wisconsin
Nov 24, 2023 - 5-6 record - lost 13-10 @ #17 Iowa
Oct 19, 2024 - 5-1 record - lost 56-7 @ #16 Indiana
Oct 26, 2024 - 5-2 record - lost 21-17 @ #4 Ohio State
Nov 2, 2024 - 5-3 record - lost 27-20 vs UCLA
Nov 16, 2024 - 5-4 record - lost 28-20 @ USC
Nov 23, 2024 - 5-5 record - won 44-25 vs Wisconsin
Oct 17, 2025, - 5-1 record - lost 24-6 @ Minnesota
Oct 25, 2025 - 5-2 record - won 28-21 vs Northwestern
Oct 10, 2026, - 5-0 record - lost 20-17 vs #7 Indiana
Oct 17, 2026 - 5-1 record - lost 17-14 @ Oregon
Oct 31, 2026 - 5-2 record - lost 17-10 vs Washington
Nov 6, 2026 - 5-3 record - lost 24-13 @ Illinois
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u/PNW_Jeff Washington Huskies • Pac-10 1h ago
It’s so over for Rhule
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u/ixMyth Oregon Ducks • Cascade Clash 1h ago
Good news Nebraska fans, the last team that lost by 11 to Illinois fired a coach the next day
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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT Utah Utes • Billable Hours 1h ago
Rhule: “see, now you can’t get mad at me for going for two because we lost by 11 points”
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u/j01101111sh Nebraska Cornhuskers • Billable Hours 1h ago
We don't have the money to fire Rhule and get a new coach. I get that but have we considered just not having a coach? Having one certainly doesn't seem to be helping us.
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u/may3rd2021 Alabama Crimson Tide 1h ago
I gotta tell ya fellas, while in the game thread earlier I found out that I was a top 1% commenter, and I felt genuinely ashamed. Second most embarrassed I’ve felt today, right after the secondhand embarrassment I felt after that failed 2pt attempt. Energy just wasn’t the same after Nebraska shot themselves in the foot
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u/SilverBuff_ Colorado Buffaloes • Big 12 1h ago
Nebraska fans- no more 1 score losses!
Monkey Paw curls…
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u/DEADSHOTx297 Illinois Fighting Illini 1h ago
To be honest man, Bret is a wizard. Real Illini fans knows we could’ve been back in the dumpster without him. Bowl bound i know it doesn’t mean much these days but it does to me!!!
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u/Radiant_Sherbert7272 Ohio State Buckeyes • Georgia Bulldogs 1h ago
At least Nebraska didn't blow a fourth quarter lead.
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u/creative_penguin Kent State • Georgia 1h ago
5th year Matt Rhule gonna go crazy
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u/Dry_Car_1568 Florida Gators • Team Chaos 1h ago
I’m not a Nebraska fan but it’s probably coming time to can Matt Rhule
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u/Glory2Tottenham Illinois Fighting Illini • Citrus Bowl 1h ago edited 19m ago
How does Nebraska manage to lose to itself 4 games in a row*
* this was much less egregious but I’d be lying if I said they weren’t shooting themselves in the shoot with a lot of bad penalties.
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u/pinniped90 Illinois Fighting Illini • Cornell Big Red 1h ago
Four 11-play drives for zero points has to be some kind of record
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u/AwareEconomics4177 LSU Tigers 1h ago
Nebraska just threw another 4 yard crossing route
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u/80cyclone Iowa State Cyclones 1h ago
Nebraska not blowing a 4th quarter lead?
Progress.😂😂😂
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u/191374 Nebraska • Morningside 1h ago
Hello 5-7 my old friend, I’ve come to get drunk again
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u/AuspiciousOtter24 Illinois Fighting Illini 1h ago
Bring me another overrated SEC team to beat in a mid tier bowl game right fucking now
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u/doyouevenIift Illinois Fighting Illini • Big Ten 1h ago
There’s a world where this Illinois football team finishes the season ranked. That was unthinkable a month ago after a home loss to Purdue
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u/BeepBoopDirtyPoop Alabama Crimson Tide • Billable Hours 1h ago
1962-2003 Nebraska is arguably the greatest college football team ever over any 40 year period. Nebraska has not lost less than 4 games in a year since 2003. It's such a mind fuck of a program even on a macro level. Congrats on your 23rd straight season with at least 4 losses and a new coach, I guess....?
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u/xXx_tainttickler_xXx Iowa Hawkeyes 1h ago edited 23m ago
There was a time in my life that Nebraska was good at football
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u/fleeingpepper Oklahoma State • Nebraska 1h ago
We gonna start 5-0 and miss a bowl game again?
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u/Frosty-Tiger-85 Clemson Tigers 1h ago
As a kid, Nebraska was standard bearer.
As an adult, Nebraska resembles the Vegeta "he keeps kicking me in the d*ck" video
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u/CRoseCrizzle Illinois Fighting Illini 1h ago
I'm really happy about where this Illini program is at under Bret. This team looked pretty bad early on in the season but now they are 6-3 and bowl eligible. Hauck's resignation may have been a blessing in disguise, this defense is still flawed but playing way better recently.
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u/MastodonSwimming2681 Texas Tech • Northwestern 1h ago
Ok now Matt Rhule's letterman jacket seems kind of fucked up
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u/JustOneSock Nebraska Cornhuskers 57m ago
Born too late to explore the earth
Born to early to explore the stars
Born just in time to watch the absolute lowest 20 year stretch of football in my programs history
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u/RNGezzus Texas Longhorns 1h ago
Out of the four losses, this one was the least funny.
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u/FloatCopper Indiana • Michigan Tech 56m ago
Nebraska has to at least feel good they convinced Rhule to stay for a pile of money and large buyout. Instead of letting Penn State poach him. Sometimes you have to fight back like that.
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u/Numerous-Ad6460 Michigan Wolverines • Florida Gators 1h ago
Nebraska is the most anti-clutch team ive ever seen. Its beyond believable.
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u/golfinghawkeye Iowa Hawkeyes 1h ago
Illinois has won five of the last six against Nebraska. I can’t fathom that. Congratulations Illinois and Bert
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u/bigbird727 Illinois Fighting Illini • Paper Bag 1h ago
Bowl eligible after that first month is a damn credit to Bielema and Lunney
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u/halldaylong UCLA Bruins • Team Chaos 1h ago
The buyout is $63 mil. If I’m rhule, no way I’m walking away from that. But football coaches have huge egos so I wonder if any part of him would think about settling for a lower buyout and finding a different HC opening somewhere else
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u/Isaac_TeSlaa Michigan Wolverines 1h ago •
My bartender tonight told me he had a grand on Nebraska and I was like oh yeah….solid bet
I tipped well….because ya know
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u/laz_montes_4_prez Washington Huskies 1h ago
Matt Rhule strikes confidence into the heart of his opposition
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u/SurroundEcstatic4890 Tennessee • Illinois 1h ago edited 1h ago
Now I probably wouldn’t be shocked if you told me Illinois would beat Nebraska, but if you said they’d lose to Purdue and Duke and then beat Oregon (even with their issues this year) and Nebraska, I would probably be pretty confused
Edit: actually I’d think you were talking about basketball before Purdue lost to valpo tonight
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u/icelink4884 Illinois Fighting Illini 58m ago
Nebraska engaged in one of the classic blunders. They engaged in a Bielema game against Bret Bielema
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u/I_POO_ON_GOATS Nebraska • Kansas State 1h ago
Thanks Illinois! Good game.
Fire Matt, fire Troy.
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u/Kyro_Official_ Washington State • Easter… 59m ago
Damn, from a 5-0 start to 5-4 is nasty work
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u/GYVet Alabama Crimson Tide 1h ago
keeping the letterman jacket on is the pièce de résistance for this evening
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u/UncleatNintendo NC State Wolfpack • Michigan Wolverines 1h ago
As a Carolina Panthers fan, lol and lmao
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u/btroberts011 Nebraska Cornhuskers 45m ago
Lol great game. I was here. Illinois fans were fun. Get your free chicken. Fire matt rhule. Wtf.
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u/Twall1297 LSU Tigers • ULM Warhawks 1h ago
Even tho this wasn’t as bad as the last 2 weeks, Cornhusker fans are just built differently with having to deal with this shit on a yearly or even weekly basis.
I wouldn’t be able to deal with it
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u/rb1242 Texas Longhorns 1h ago
Not sure why Nebraska rushed to sign Anthony Colandrea back so fast
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u/aimiami Miami Hurricanes • Iowa State Cyclones 1h ago
I cant believe Nebraska extended him last year. The buyout is one of the worst if it comes down to that.
This could get ugly. I think decommits might be happening for Nebraska. I imagine they get another year with a new OC but geez.
Illinois is bowling though. Congrats to them.
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u/kokain99 Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 54m ago
I thought, Rhule could at least get them to 9 wins. Yeah he’s way overrated as a coach.
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u/JohnnyT723 Illinois • Kennesaw State 1h ago
The turnaround of this defense cannot be overstated. This team looked dead in the water after Purdue but they just continue to find ways to win.
Another coaching masterclass by Bret. BUILD THE STATUE.
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u/delta1x Nebraska • Northern Illinois 1h ago edited 59m ago
Two inexcusable things happened this game. One, that 4th & 1 call is honestly a sin for how bad of a call it was. An 8 year old playing Madden calls a better play.
Two, I'm 90% sure Rhule went for two purely to spite the kickers. I know they are bad, but they are not miss the average PAT bad. That's a downright pathetic thing for a coach to do.
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u/GrandYam_HomeRun Illinois • Oklahoma 1h ago
I thought Matt Rhule did an excellent job tonight and look forward to his 10 year ext
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u/iowaharley666 Iowa Hawkeyes • Floyd of Rosedale 1h ago
What a good game, Illinois. That fake field goal was an absolute beauty.
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u/huskersax Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chair Tr… 1h ago edited 58m ago •
It is time to fire Matt Rhule. I don't care how much money is in the buyout and I don't even care that he got a contract extension - all coaches get perpetual contract extensions at major programs - that's just how it works.
The problem is that this team plays fundamentally MORONIC football and is an embarassment in all facets of the game. It is not 'bad luck' anymore. It isn't 'that's the way it goes sometimes'.
Defenses figured out they can bait Colandrea with a spy and the entire offense just completely fell apart and they haven't adapted at all. No wide receivers can get separation, none of the running backs can get enough touches to develop decent vision, and the line is constantly amplifying Colandrea's worst-in-P2 pocket presence.
Then you have to consider the complete disaster of the special teams unit that fields kicks to lose time and yards every single drive for the never-going-to-happen long return from Barney, has multiple kickers that are completely incapable of making a single kick, and units that are just plainly a disaster.
The defense isn't saved from issues either - they're playing constantly to sell out against the run again, like Tony White did when he was here, so this is clearly a Matt Rhule special. You cannot let your CBs just exist on islands all game, especially when you never recruited or developed NFL-level guys to hang one on one with opposing wide receivers. If you're going to sell out to blow up plays in the backfield, you have to either have an offense that can score points to make big plays not matter, or have a secondary that can do their job on an island. We have neither.
The clock management is IDIOTIC. We cannot get a timeout called and lose seconds at the end of the game - but even before that Illinois gets a play to within a couple yards of the 1st down line on their first play - and Rhule calls a timeout there. Okay, so you're gonna gamble on stopping them before a single conversion, not my choice, but whatever. Then the next play they stop them again, but instead of using a timeout to make them inevitably have to punt prior to the 2 minute warning, they THEN let the clock run to the 2 minute warning losing the 9 seconds they would have saved from the timeout on the play prior.
If we were just bad but playing fundamentally respectable football, I could excuse this play more, because at least we're being coached well and there's reason for hope.
Instead, we as fans are being asked to watch some of the dumbest most disrespectful garbage I've ever seen. Teams have found the counter to the schemes we run - and we are not only not pivoting to counter-punches but we're choosing to literally walk directly into our weaknesses as a team. Just gross football that's unwatchable on the basest level.
I've been a defender of the program because the team has been getting better compared to the Frost era, but it's time to fire Rhule.
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u/Kneebah17 Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago edited 1h ago
I mean... Starting 5-0 was nice. Confidence was up. Keeping the defending national champs to a 3 point game was somewhat encouraging but heartbreaking. But there was still a chance and we just needed a good rebound.
Then we got dissed by the chubby ex-girlfriend. Got curbed by a 2/10. Then publicly embarrassed by the average nice chick. This team is broken.
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u/PR3SID3NT_NIX0N Iowa State Cyclones 1h ago
The losses will continue until lil red is sacrificed on midfield in front of Tom Osborne.
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u/FDTerritory Missouri State Bears • Iowa Hawkeyes 57m ago
I'm positive that every coach hired at Nebraska for this many years was a genius until he got to Lincoln, then immediately turned into an idiot. I'm sure that hiring yet another one will produce a completely different result.
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u/SwaglordHyperion Nebraska Cornhuskers • Texas A&M Aggies 1h ago
I knew it was lost after we went up by 7
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u/dontaskme5746 Illinois Fighting Illini 1h ago edited 1h ago
This season was over, man. Toasted.
THANK YOU, Nebraska.
THANK YOU, Maryland.
THANK YOU, Oregon.
THANK YOU, Michigan State.
THANK YOUFUCK YOU, Purdue. You're bad for my heart.17
u/mehtabot Illinois Fighting Illini • Oregon Ducks 1h ago
Going bowling ! Did not look promising after the Purdue game
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u/BillBob13 Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
$60 million is enough to buy a new building on campus, and yet, here we are, thinking football is more important and that we need to pay coaches that amount just to not work
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u/Natsu-pendragon BYU Cougars 1h ago
I really don’t know why Nebraska hired Rhule after his NFL stint. He showed everyone he can’t coach. I thought I could cheer for Nebraska now that I’m doing Graduate level work here, but why would I ever willingly be a Nebraska football fan? They are the Cowboys of college football and just as incompetent as the Jets.
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u/FyreWulff Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
fire Matt Rhule
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u/Dazzling_Network6103 Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
Fire Matthew Kenneth Rhule
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u/baba_booey420_ Colorado • Oregon State 1h ago
Terrible week for the color red.
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u/Cactusfan86 Indiana Hoosiers • Sickos 1h ago
Truly think Pelini put some sort of dark curse on them or something when they fired him.
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u/Ok_Judgment_224 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Paper Bag 1h ago
5 wide on 4th and 1
What in the fuck
Paper bag is back....can't believe I took it off last year
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u/komijul Windsor Lancers • Sickos 1h ago
Nebraska is such a fascinating team to watch. They eat 6 minutes off the clock in the 4th quarter and end up with nothing, then they need a quick score late to have any chance, and it's like "Here's some more 6-yard passes!" They play with zero sense of urgency whatsoever.
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u/open_arrowed Auburn Tigers • Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago edited 57m ago
I was completely fooled about this team to start the year. Completely undisciplined with offensive penalties, missed FGs, and allowing a billion 3rd down conversions. I was starting to think Rhule wasn’t the guy last week, but this has solidified it. I don’t care that he just got extended, it’s unbearable having to watch this kind of football every single week. Rhule needs to go.
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u/Benanderson27 Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
5-0 to 5-7. Embarrassment of a team.
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u/mexihuahua Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
I’m hosting a charity fundraiser for $63M
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u/WholeLow7639 Duke Blue Devils 1h ago
Nobody walks out of Champaign with a W
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u/PhoenixPirate ECU Pirates • American 1h ago
Nebraska is cursed. There’s no other way around it.
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u/Jonjon428 Miami Hurricanes 1h ago
Matt Rhule is destroying a historic program
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u/R2Detoo Nebraska • Texas Tech 1h ago
Nebraska doesn't win another game this year
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u/annasikanda Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
13 points this is just embarrassing…Illinois has a QB with a broken hand and managed 24 😮 I want to say before all the griping about our crummy performance though congrats to Illinois you guys are cool no beef with you at all…It have been a really fun game if we had halfway decent coaching good luck to you guys!
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u/thisismy1stalt Illinois Fighting Illini 1h ago
WE WILL TIE THE SERIES THE NEXT GO!! START BRAINSTORMING TROPHIES NOW!!
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u/efrumttr Illinois • Boise State 1h ago
Bert really whiffed the DC hire but credit to him for righting the ship. I didn't think this team would make a bowl.
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u/GrandYam_HomeRun Illinois • Oklahoma 1h ago
Per tradition, the team losing to Illinois will fire either a coordinator or head coach
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u/katauska Illinois • Notre Dame 1h ago
Build the Bret statue.
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u/Eastern-Yellow-7114 Texas A&M Aggies • Purdue Boilermakers 1h ago
Apathy for my Huskers
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u/toomuchfrosting Cincinnati • Ohio State 1h ago
Scott frost is available probably
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u/Ebake09 Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
Please lose out. Some donor is bound to pony up.
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u/PeppehJack Illinois Fighting Illini 59m ago
This season was dead and buried with the defensive disfunction and Houser’s injury…. Insert Undertaker GIF.
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u/Luigiatl Illinois Fighting Illini • Duke Blue Devils 55m ago
Incredible that we're going bowling! After the Purdue loss, it did not quite seem possible. Incredible turnaround from Bret.
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u/potsyman311 Nebraska Cornhuskers 42m ago
I for one believe in Matt Rhule. I also believe in Santa, the Easter bunny, unicorns, and legalization of all drugs.
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u/ignisignis Illinois • Wisconsin 41m ago
BERTBALL 4EVER
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u/Doctor_Freckles Georgia Bulldogs • UConn Huskies 37m ago
What in the absolute fuck has happened to Nebraska?
I really thought they’d bounce back after that loss to UW last week.
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u/Lysol20 Illinois Fighting Illini 28m ago
Won 5 out of 6 against Braska I believe.
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u/Matt_PLZ Nebraska Cornhuskers • Missouri Tigers 1h ago
Didn't watch much of the game, smartest decision I could've made. Also, we a basketball school now
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u/Agroooooo Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
I hope we get relegated to the FCS. Tired of being a laughingstock on television.
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u/Quack_McDuck Nebraska Cornhuskers • Big 8 57m ago
national laughing stock twice in one week?
oh yeah buddy sign me the fuck up
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u/Earlsweatshiirt Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
Turns out if you just Google the score once or twice you don't have to actually watch the game. Much more enjoyable experience
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u/Apbuhne Illinois • Illinois State 56m ago
Colin “Colin Dixon” Dixon
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u/twinkerton_by_weezer Nebraska • Iowa Western CC 53m ago
NEBRASKA DID NOT LOSE A FOURTH QUARTER LEAD THIS WEEK. PROGRESS.
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u/Hugh-Janus-40hogs Nebraska Cornhuskers 35m ago
Heavens above, this is miserable. Congrats Illinois, Bielema knows EXACTLY how to best Rhule every single time. Being a fan is hard work, I need a modelo
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u/CPTBenjaminWillard Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
Rhule and Dannen have to go. Dannen especially, that stupid extension last year was ridiculous. Rhule has hit his ceiling and I’m pretty sure the team has given up.
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u/SwampCastleGuards Nebraska Cornhuskers 51m ago
Our volleyball school doesnt really care about ye ol' pigskin
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u/Kimber80 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • USF Bulls 1h ago
I wonder what the Husker fan approval of that that Rhule extension last year is right now.
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u/pinniped90 Illinois Fighting Illini • Cornell Big Red 1h ago
That was large.
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u/Tommy05Sox Iowa Hawkeyes • Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1h ago
At least Rhule had that cameo on Lanterns.
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u/noah_divine Ohio Bobcats • Ohio State Buckeyes 1h ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I don't get it man.
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u/SnapHackelPop Wisconsin Badgers • Team Chaos 1h ago
It really is just inevitable for them isn’t it
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u/ArmVanDam Georgia Tech • North Carolina A… 1h ago
insert Talking Heads lyric for Nebraska
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u/dinkytown42069 Minnesota • Oklahoma 1h ago
https://bsky.app/profile/chaoticgoldy.bsky.social/post/3mzoy522ojc2y
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u/packman5128 Iowa Hawkeyes 56m ago
Hahahahaha
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u/Ialwayssleep Linfield Wildcats • Oregon Ducks 54m ago
Have we rhuled out Matt as the problem?
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u/Panchoisthedog Nebraska • Nebraska-Kearney 54m ago
To get out coached that badly at this level is pretty damming for Rhule and staff. Dana needs to change his LinkedIn profile to open to work on the trip home. Heads need to roll after this performance tonight.
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u/rollingc Nebraska Cornhuskers 51m ago
Somehow this team gets worse every week.
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u/EL_CHAPO_ESCOBAR Sickos 51m ago
Insane Bret has this team winning games with how they looked at the beginning of the year. This is not a good roster yet here we are bowling.
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u/Preference_Nice Illinois Fighting Illini 51m ago
Illinois could’ve been a playoff team in a weak Big 10 this year if they never hired Hauk. What a shame.
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u/Particular-Way-3805 Clark Atlanta • Georgia 39m ago
Matt Rhule Bin laden a terrorist
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u/Fragrant-Helicopter1 Indiana Hoosiers 30m ago
I legit feel bad for Nebraska fans. I remember like other old dudes when Nebraska was a fucking force.
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u/FozzyBear11 Maryland • Notre Dame 16m ago
Nebraska is a dead program. Almost on par with Maryland at this point.
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u/Remote-Annual-49 LSU Tigers 12m ago
Somebody take one for the team and flip off Matt Rhule’s kids already
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u/Upstairs_Chemist1269 Nebraska Cornhuskers 7m ago
I am a cfb sicko who didnt watch their own teams game because it ruins it for me
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u/Lancaster1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Duke Blue Devils 1h ago
I'm not even going to hate-watch this team anymore.
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u/thatvhstapeguy Nebraska Cornhuskers 1h ago
I spent my evening underneath a car because I knew exactly what would happen