Matt Rhule on losing 45-7, losses to Minnesota and Michigan State

Uh, you're supposed to scout your opponents. Dumb ass.

Does he really think without any scouting Nebraska would've won the game????????

oh wow. Matt Rhule is a loser.

He didn't really say that. There's no way he really said that, right? I have to believe this is an Onion-type article.

Then again, I was at that game in Lincoln. The more I think about it, the more I seem to remember saying to myself, "Wow, this is an 8-1 team if I ever saw one."

Wow!  To think that I respected him and thought he would be successful.  That is some lame excuse making.

Pretty sure 9 opponents scouted them and 3 more are in process.

I guess we know their vote in B1G discussions.

Sounds like a whiny little bitch. How about getting crushed by Colorado?

Didn't they fine Harbaugh for speaking up about officiating?
 

"Dracarys" - Jim Harbaugh

But we have one game where the team scouted us.

Yea, who would ever expect a team to scout you.  /s

I never met a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else...

Why CS, WHY?!?!? The most boneheaded thing one could possibly do.  Did he really need to scout the first 7 teams we played?!?!?

This kind of bitching makes just for men Ryan looks tough as nails, and that takes some doing

I was at the game (along with 90,000 other fans) and scouting didn't have dick shit to do with the outcome of that game. You'd have to be a liar or a complete imbecile to believe otherwise. 

I think Matt Rhule is a good coach but Nebraska is sort of a whiny program going back years now (Bo Pelini loved to rant in the media and we all know about Frost) so now a shock Rhule would be caught up in it.  At this point the loser talk is sort of seeped into the carpet.  

Also, you can tell he's trying to deflect some blame for being the guy who picked up Jeff Sims in the portal for no earthly reason and then having to go to his backup because Sims was atrocious.  A better coach would have beaten Colorado, this shitty MSU team, and Minnesota.  

Anyway, congrats to Nebraska for nearly beating MSU and giving them maybe their only Big 10 win this year.

Sadly, have to add Rhule to the list of people I've lost some respect for through this. He has seemed like a decent dude. But joining the mob and saying "we own this record" followed up with silly excuses is the definition of not owning it.

I have translated from Rhule-ese to English

”We’d be 8-1 if we didn’t get totally screwed over by everyone all the time. It’s everything else’s fault we’re not 9-0. I mean, it’s obvious we’re doing everything right and we’d be 15-0 this year if everything was totally fair. I mean 22-0 is right there for us if everyone wasn’t actively cheating. None of this is my fault.”

This is……truly pathetic.

OTOH, I can understand how losing to this year’s edition of MSU would leave one filled with self doubt, and grasping at straws……

Surprised he didn’t invoke the standard excuse…..our tunnel.

You needed replay to decide the outcome of the Michigan state & Minnesota game. My gosh 

What is it about Nebraska that makes men turn into whiny li'l bitches?

Whatever helps your nightmares of getting fired again.

Well, advanced scouting is clearly worth at least 50 points a game so ya never know.

It's really shitty how the BS of modern culture has bled in to football now. Coaches used to, for the most part, STFU and feel some level of pride. Everyone knows things but it usually stays among the fraternity of coaches. Rather than appear to look or sound like a pussy you'd harden yourself and seek revenge on the field. 

These bitchmade coaches talking like Stalions was worth a million points a game is just so comically pathetic. Definition of bitchmade. 

I guess it's inevitable when a coach making $4-12M a year has to justify why he got his shit pushed in by Michigan. Why take any responsibility when you can just join in the mob, point and say "our 30+ point loss to them is because they knew exactly what we were doing".

If we pretend their fantasy land it's real for a second, they say this shit not even realizing what a self-own it is to have either not noticed it for a full game or they did notice but were too inept to simply change signals or huddle in order to combat it at all. To not even be able to combat it to a degree that made the game vaguely competitive should cost you your $4-12M a year job if that's the case and your fantasyland bullshit were true.

So after saying in his press conference a couple weeks ago that "everyone steals signs", Matt joins the feeding frenzy. 

All these MF's have an opportunity to beat Michigan on the field.  Instead, they choose to blame sign stealing; a practice that is otherwise accepted around college football.  Did Stalions go way overboard? Undoubtedly.   But at the end of the day, are you a little pregnant or all the way pregnant?

I fail to see how he's "owning 5-4" when he steps up to the microphone and blames someone else for losing by six scores. 

Sounds like you're not owning it, Rhule.....

At a certain point, its not about sign stealing. Its about the fact that you have a bad football team. 

Tally count for coaches that 'want blood' from us:

Day

Franklin

Fickell

Walters

Rhule

MSU

Who else?  Allen. Maybe: Locksley, Schiano. No:  Fleck, Ferentz, NW.