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Nebraska Cornhuskers (corn)

Sources: Nebraska working to hire Matt Rhule as coach

Nebraska has zeroed in on Matt Rhule as the Cornhuskers' next head coach and the two sides are working on finalizing a deal in the coming days, sources told ESPN on Friday.

Rhule, who was fired by the NFL's Carolina Panthers in October, previously had successful stints in college at Baylor and Temple.

If hired by Nebraska, Rhule would replace Scott Frost, who was fired from his alma mater earlier this season.

Rhule, 47, was less than three seasons into his seven-year, $62 million deal with the Panthers when he was fired after a 1-4 start to this season. Overall, he was 11-27 with Carolina, and the team went 1-27 when allowing 17 or more points.



Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ources-nebraska-working-hire-matt-rhule-coach

If it gets finalized, I'll say that is a great hire for Corn.
 
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Matt Rhule brings renewed optimism to Nebraska Huskers football after hire

ON IF HE CAN TURN THINGS AROUND QUICKLY…
“Yeah, I think some places can. I think you're seeing that in some conferences. I don't know that you're seeing as much of that in places like the Big Ten that are kind of built off of, you know, big, strong physical football. I think if you're running kind of, you know, spread and, you know, bring some guys in, they can learn the system quickly. When I look at Nebraska and we're going to be engaged in the transfer portal and we're going to be engaged in high school recruiting and we're going to try to go find the best players that want to be here for the right reasons. But you know, Nebraska was built off of player development. It's one of the reasons why I took this job and one of the reasons why I felt like it was a fit for me because there's nothing I like better than seeing a guy like Dion Dawkins, who really isn't recruited by anybody, comes to us and he's a starting left tackle in the National Football League. Hasson Reddick is a walk-on and he's one of the top staff producers in the National Football League.

“I love that developmental process of taking guys to places that no one expected in the recruiting process and so you know, we will try to flip the roster fast. You know, they went out and beat Iowa on Friday, a tremendous job by them so I don't think it’s as bad as people would think, you know, I think there's some really good players here and we're gonna exhaust all means.”

ON CHANGING THE CULTURE AT NEBRASKA…
“Yeah, I think it's getting the right people on board. Both coaching staff, the administrative staff and players. You have to have the right people. You'll find a collective purpose, a common purpose. I mean, we all want individual success and accolades and there's nothing wrong with hey, I want to make money, I want to do this, but at the end of the day, we all have to also care about the team. And then you have to just really, really, really work hard. You know, one of the things I noticed the last couple years and you know in the NFL is that there's a lot of really talented players coming in. Players coming from some schools that I don't think had been challenged a bunch you know, I think people were so nervous about coaching the way you're supposed to coach that the kid would transfer.

“You know what, young people are resilient, young people respond to coaches who care about them and want to make them the best that they can be. And, you know, we're gonna build a tough physical team here. I don't know how long it'll take. But you know, if you do that, if the players know that you care and that they know that you have their best interest, they're having a good experience, they'll let you coach them and they'll stick around.”

Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...rs-football-after-hire-199053348/#199053348_5
 
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I have no idea who (if any) on the current staff Ruhle might want to retain; however, I'll say Joseph just took himself out of consideration.
 
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Lots of folks around here are speculating that there may be a third party involved. He had a Zoom call with Tulsa yesterday at about 12:30....less than an hour and a half later, he's in jail.

Some are thinking that he found someone else along with his bride and maybe things lead to all of this....
 
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