Carolina dumped him. I can see him at Nebraska. His Temple teams resembled Big Ten brand of football
Matt Rhule fired
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He's taking the job with the cows*
Yeah. Going to Nebraska makes a lot of sense (for Nebraska). I would throw a lot of money at him if I was them. He took an abysmal Temple program and had them have back-to-back 10 win seasons. Then he took Baylor after all their issues and rebuilt them in three years back to 11-3. Guy develops players.
If Nebraska wants him, they will get him, unless he pissed Tom Osbourne off sometime in the past
Because nfl teams have even worse expectations than colleges. In college a coach can recruit his players, in the nfl a coach has to coach players who the ownership chooses and often times these players may sinply be trash. Rhule turned around Baylor and Temple so he is proven in cfb
Im thinking he wanted Baker and the results weren’t good so they cut ties and the new coach will pick his QB in draft.
Watch out for Auburn here. Need a splash hire.
Right. At least in college you get to pick your team, and it's on you. Not the case with the NFL, like you said. Plus, a couple of key injuries, etc...and you can lose real fast. Margins are thin in the NFL. For example, the Bengals are 2-3 right now but all 3 losses have come on a FG while time is expiring. It looks bad in reality but they are 15-30 seconds from being 5-0.
Rhule inherited a Panthers team that had gone 11-5 (2017), 7-9 (2018) then 5-11 (2019). After 2017 Cam's stats fell off a cliff and they've just been floundering without a franchise QB since then. In 2019 Rivera got fired. The Panther's QB depth consisted of Kyle Allen and Will Grier in 2020....not exactly world class. He was handed garbage and then went 5-11, 5-12 and 1-4 before being fired this season. In 2020 he had to live with Bridgewater as the only option at QB after only playing in 6 games over the previous 3 seasons. In 2021 they tried to bring Cam Newton back and that flopped. They drafted one QB (WIll Grier) from 2017-2021, so they went like 5 years trying to "patch" the QB position with backups, retreads, and guys that weren't cutting it elsewhere. They did bring in Mayfield in 2022 and that was a good risk at $14 million on a 1 year deal, and they drafted Matt Corral but Corral was put on IR before the 2022 season even began with a foot injury. Mayfield is now out 2-6 weeks with a high ankle sprain and looks like they will have to roll with the ex-Temple QB PJ Walker.
BTW, I looked up PJ Walker and the kid has earned ~2.7 million in like 6 seasons as a backup (I think he was out of the game for a year in there as well). Man, backup QB has got to be one of the best gigs in the world.
Rhule took a calculated risk and it has paid him handsomely. He signed a 7 year/62 million contract. The whole thing was guaranteed. By getting fired without cause he turned that contract into a 2.25 year/62 million contract. Increasing his pay from ~9 million/yr to ~27.5 million/yr. Man, did he pull the rug over on them.
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usf will be looking for a new head loser….but is Rhule stupid enough to think about it?
He’ll get a dozen better offers. Never going to happen.
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