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Really sad. Wouldn’t fault Rhule for walking away.



Fans threw trash onto the field after the interception, and Rhule said his 13-year-old daughter told him she was accosted at the stadium by a man who told her, "F-U and F your dad."

"I'm not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up," Rhule said.

Rhule said his wife, Julie, asked their children if the high-profile coaching life was too much to bear. He said his 10-year-old daughter texted him to say she loved the team, the players and living in Nebraska and that she's tough enough to handle it.

"So I'm going to fight for the fans," Rhule said. "Yeah, they get passionate, they boo, they throw a bottle. I get all that. The guy who attacked my 13-year-old daughter, I'm not coaching for him. I'm coaching for the people who are in the boat."

The passengers on Rhule's metaphorical boat, he said, are the players, coaches, staffers and fans.

"You get to these moments and the water is rocky, the ocean is rocky," he said. "Just steady in the boat, man. Steady in the boat. Don't take a rocking boat and a rocking sea and rock it even more, man. You can't control what's outside the boat. Your focus should be on being steady in the boat, going back to work this week and understanding this game against Illinois, if we play well, we'll come down to the end and you have to make one more play than the other team."
 
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