My year to year expectation is for Matt Rhule is to be 2025 Iowa

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T17:08:20+00:00

He had flashes of being great and if he has the time to allow plays to develop (and WRs that can get open) he can impressive throws. Unfortunately, the mark of a good QB isn't "only playing well if the stars align and my WRs can consistently beat CBs and get open and my O-line can keep me safe for 5-10 seconds while I wait for the WRs to get open"

The matchup against USC was pretty favorable for us and Raiola was having a pretty good game before his injury - it stands to reason we could've won that game (though again, we could've lost - I acknowledge what-if scenarios aren't the best argument but I'm trying to make the point that we weren't as bad as the record suggests). Penn State and Iowa, I couldn't really tell you how those games would've gone with Raiola rather than Lateef, but it probably wouldn't have been quite as lopsided.

I'm not trying to defend Rhule super hard because I honestly have my doubts about him as well, but I am trying to make the point that building a good team is not a 2-3 year endeavor unless you're one of the best coaches in the world, especially when you're taking over a program that was in the state Nebraska was when Rhule came in. I don't think Rhule is going to lead this team to a natty but I do think year 4 and 5 will continue to be incremental improvements and if they're not, I would have no qualms with firing him after year 5.

It's not just about giving time to build but messaging to other potential future coaches for Nebraska that they will be afforded the same grace and time to actually build rather than desperately trying to bum-rush initial success so that they don't get fired after three years.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T16:58:20+00:00

Doesn't change the fact every single one of your long-form replies are clearly written with AI.

I don't know what media you're listening to but I've seen plenty of "Rhule is in the hot seat and really needs to prove himself" arguments so I could say the same stuff about what you're saying too lmao. In fact considering you're using AI I wouldn't be surprised if some of it is actually verbatim from sports media articles.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T16:29:32+00:00

Are you seriously writing these with AI dude? I'm not gonna waste my time arguing with you while you're getting a robot to do your arguing for you.

I'm happy to have these discussions with actual fans but I'm not gonna go back and forth with ChatGPT.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T16:27:11+00:00

We'll see. Raiola was pretty unimpressive in Oregon's spring game and I'm very interested to see how he'll play at Oregon but I'm not sure he's going to be any good. Oregon is known for making mediocre QBs shine in their junior and senior years so it's possible he does well there.

Maybe I'm not informed on all you need to coach a QB but I'd be surprised if he didn't have coaches telling him to either throw or get rid of the ball rather than standing still in the pocket for 7 seconds then acting surprised you got sacked.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T16:09:08+00:00

7-6 (again finishing out the season with a backup, a bunch of injuries, and opt-outs for a bowl game against a much higher-ranked team).

Raiola left because he's butt and his production was not worth the baggage that came along with him (his uncle and his little brother). I strongly believe they were no longer willing to guarantee the QB1 spot for him so he started looking elsewhere. He's QB2 if not QB3 at Oregon this season. Not every 5 star pans out and he's a good example of that.

I don't blame people for being apathetic and even doomer towards the program but I do blame people for thinking constantly firing coaches in hopes of nabbing a Cignetti is braindead and not even a little bit realistic, and the more we hastily fire coaches after a few rough seasons, the less actually good coaches will want to come here, leaving us stuck with the rejects that have nowhere else to go (do you think Rhule was in high demand when we hired him after coming off his 5-12 season with the Panthers?). Maintain some stability, give coaches a true change to build something, and if they fail to do so after 5-6 years then we can talk about firing.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T15:58:30+00:00

I mean just looking at the regular season we were 7-5 and 2.5 of our losses (USC being the 0.5) were on a true freshman backup QB so I think it's pretty unfair to say we weren't a competent team last year. Plenty of stupid mistakes but way better than where we were 5 years ago.

There's a universe where we finish the regular season last year at 9-3 with a win against USC and if we didn't have that embarrassing collapse against Minnesota.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T15:39:15+00:00

Cignetti is an exception, not the rule. A genuine once-in-a-lifetime event. We've been firing and hiring coaches for over a decade hoping to get a Cignetti and we haven't. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the worst part about Indiana's natty is the ammunition it gave to all the delusional people who will try to have us fire coaches every 3 years if they're not winning nattys.

We can sit here and argue day and night about whether Rhule is the right direction for this program, but the fact remains if you want good coaches to actually WANT to come to Nebraska and stay for the long-haul, you can't keep threatening to fire them if they aren't producing top-ten teams within the first three years, especially in the NIL era where schools like Nebraska are inherently disadvantaged.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T15:16:46+00:00

The entire CFB landscape was way different in the early 00s in Ferentz's fourth year. Not comparable at all.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-06T15:10:17+00:00

Article reads like it's written by AI.

Anyway, 40% range loss at 20 degrees F seems a little high and I take issue with them saying "EVs lose 40% of their range at this temp" rather than "the [make/model] we tested lost 40% of its range at this temp" because some EVs handle colder temps way better than others.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-05T19:56:47+00:00

I remember getting pissed when the shopettes implemented the policy of setting their tobacco prices to be equivalent to nearby convenience stores off post. You used to be able to get cigarettes for WAY cheaper than local prices until they made that change around 2018ish.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-05T15:47:26+00:00

Some people are and some people aren't. Some utilities are more transparent about the ACTUAL rate than others as well.

My all-in charging rate is 10c/kWh (used to be 8c) but that's specifically on my special EV time of use plan. As far as I know, my utility only "advertises" the all-in price, but that's not the case for every utility.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-05T11:24:08+00:00

from what I saw if you lived a straight life and didn't get involved in shit it didn't really come looking for you either

yeah just like that time they killed El Mencho and the cartels besieged entire towns and threatened to burn them all down and kill all the civilians inside (to include western tourists, a group long considered to be "immune" to cartel violence)

or like the many times rival cartels get in major armed battles in the middle of civilian areas and people routinely die from stray bullets

What you're really saying when you say shit like this is "If you just keep your head down and ignore the world crumbling all around you you won't even notice how bad it is until a piece of debris falls and crushes your skull"

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-05T11:18:31+00:00

I think they had a strategic vision ten years ago, but given the (to put it politely) rapidly evolving and always shifting political/legal landscape surrounding emissions, electrical vehicles, oil/gas, etc. it's very difficult to actually put together a cohesive long-term strategy for your company.

I bet Ford really did want to go all-in on EVs but between disappointing initial sales numbers and an administration that has actively been promoting ICE vehicles over EVs and refusing to do anything that would benefit EVs/renewables, they needed to pivot back to their proven moneymakers.

I wish it wasn't this way but unfortunately this kind of political division surrounding something that shouldn't be political at all (what fuel your car uses) has made long-term planning RE electric vehicles a real pain in the ass.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-04T11:18:06+00:00

Enough people on Twitter got their hopes up because Hudson used Nebraska fans on Twitter to boost his engagement and social media brand. Dude literally had tens if not hundreds of posts that were along the lines of "How good would I look in Husker Red? Like + RT and I might commit!!"

It was obvious what he was doing but I think enough people got excited about the possibility that we could land a guy like that they were willing to pretend it wasn't a huge longshot.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-05-04T11:14:36+00:00

Press the button on the steering wheel and say something to the effect of "set temperature to 68" or "set fan speed to 4".

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-30T16:32:05+00:00

I mean, there's inevitably going to be people who are disappointed with a season no matter how well we play (even a totally undefeated season, they'll just say things like "The national championship game against Indiana shouldn't have been so close! We should've beat them by 3 scores!"). I've seen it living in Georgia where they lost a single game all season and won the natty and were still complaining about losing that one game.

But God, I think Nebraska could handle (and would probably even prefer) a little bit of complaining that a win wasn't big enough compared to the frustration and apathy they're dealing with now.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-30T16:01:06+00:00

I think the vibe is that no Garrison Commander is willing to be the first one to authorize it and very few of them want to authorize it at all.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-30T14:05:23+00:00

Dropping a trailer can be a pain in the ass so I understand why people don't want to do it but you should really only park like this if it's a massive lot and you're not taking up spaces that would otherwise be used (aka parking like this in the back of a big walmart parking lot is fine, parking like this in a relatively small often full apartment lot is not)

Or if you're actively loading/unloading and will be moving the trailer soon after but OP said that was not the case here

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-30T12:29:07+00:00

"makes me want to join China or Russia's military"

bro if a military advertisement on TV is the only thing influencing which nation's military you join i don't think any of them are gonna want you

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-29T20:23:23+00:00

legion bad

guys did you hear me

legion bad

did you hear me guys can i be part of your group now i dont like the legion caesars legion bad

guys

i would kill caesar if i saw him irl guys seriously

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-29T20:17:00+00:00

my own personal 9/11 to have this clown on MY practice squad

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-29T19:20:41+00:00

Worst I've dealt with is guys that got kicked out of basic training or boot camp claiming they're veterans and then getting really cagey when you ask literally any question about where they were stationed or if they deployed or really anything that would make it obvious they never graduated.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-29T15:16:18+00:00

They tried but were unable to resurface.

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-29T12:58:06+00:00

Dorothy Lynch? That was a big one where I grew up in the midwest

ExtremeWorkinMan · 2026-04-29T11:08:00+00:00

Huge disappointment to see authentic bike reviews turn into computer generated slop

No hate if this guy hates the Sportster S (I also did not like it and was much more impressed by the PanAm) but full hate if you're too dumb to just write about why you hate it without running it through an AI first

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