Matt Rhule compared it to some of those old great mansions you’d see.
Beautiful pillars outside the door. Beautiful bones to the home. But maybe the paint is chipping and the landscaping has seen better years.
Nebraska football had some of that feel when he first got here. It was a program with an amazing fan base, history of excellence, great facilities and a beautiful stadium. But the things that really make you elite, like dominant recruiting and being on the forefront with ideas, wasn’t what it once was.
“We were always on the forefront and when I got here there was this real feeling of, ‘Well, we can’t do anything new, because this is how you do it Nebraska. This is what won for us.’ We were doing things in 2022, 2023 very similar to what we had done in 1995,” the Nebraska coach said on an appearance of The Triple Option podcast, along with former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer and Rob Stone.
“And as I talked to Coach Osborne, it wasn’t about recreating the past. It was about getting back to that mindset of, ‘Let’s be on the forefront of technology, sports science, recruiting. Let’s do things better than anybody else is doing them.'”
Rhule senses that shift was maybe a little uncomfortable for people.
“It sometimes feels like, ‘Hey, are we not being respectful to the past?’ But I’m blessed that Coach Osborne has really kind of paved the way for me and said, ‘If Matt wants to flip sides of the stadium, let them flip sides to the stadium. If Matt wants to change the locker room, change the locker room…'”
He thinks Nebraska is back at the forefront with its facility and Training Table.
“And I think that will hopefully help us attract players.”
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