Some weekend Brewing.
Can this changing, I’d say unsettling, period in college football ultimately be of great advantage to Nebraska?
No one is expected to mark an answer on pen in their paper to that, but one part of Matt Rhule’s interview with Josh Pate in particular stuck out to me.
“It’s why I came to Nebraska is because I saw this coming,” he told Pate. “And I was convinced that Nebraska in the Big Ten in the middle of the country with our financial situation would be able to survive in this new world. And I looked at other jobs and said, ‘They might look at a good job, but it won’t be by 20-whatever.”
Continued with that, he said during the interview, “We didn’t take away one cent, not one position from the resources we give our players to also do rev share. But a lot of schools are going to have to do it. I think that’s where the differentiating factors are going to be.”
Again, you’re not required to mark an answer if you believe Nebraska is one of those top teams who comes out of this whole makeover of college sports smelling like roses.
But when Rhule said in December that month wasn’t a ‘woe is me’ kind of month amid all the portaling and hiring decisions – this has to be the heart of why.
Who can not only keep their lunch amid the waves rocking the boat but also actually grow a sense of comfort in it? You don’t have to love everything about the climate to thrive in it.
Eventually, it still comes down to getting off the field one more time on a third down, hitting that one throw, making that one kick, wrapping up that one tackle, working the clock just right in those final two minutes.
The collision of the micro and the macro that settles the score. The string of floss that separates a win from a loss in October even after all the best planning. It’s why the games still captivate us so much when they get here.
But after two months where a lot happened – the portal departures; the 16 portal adds; new coordinators, D-line, outside backers and defensive backs coaches – Rhule holds steady in such interviews about his confidence in where Husker football is headed even as the routes of college football as a whole get changed.
Nebraska-Tennessee became one of those football series set in the future I thought about the same way I did when people spoke about flying cars when I was a kid.
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