When talking about the hierarchy of traditional college football, Nebraska is a program near the top of this list. The Huskers are a program once firmly planted at the top of the college football world but have since seen themselves relegated to near the bottom of the Big Ten on a yearly basis.
So, once you have seen your program become a far cry from what it once was, the hunger for success with each new head coach becomes more and more starved. This is something that Matt Rhule, who has seen success in rebuilding programs on a high level, has to learn to handle fast. The fans that will pack out Memorial Stadium are much hungrier than the ones in Philadelphia and Baylor – even more so than the fans in Charlotte.
On Fox Sports 1’s ‘The Herd,’ Rhule noted this hunger by the fans.
“I think people, they’re at a point now where it’s been seven or eight years and I think people are just hungry for a step in the right direction and I think people are excited about the things that we’ve done, the way we’ve recruited, the way we’ve tried to get around the state. I know people want to win.”
While saying he knows fans want to win, he even noted in the same breath that fans also want to win in the ‘Nebraska Way.’ Rhule also got around to saying how he wants the program to become a more physical team and have the ability to close out games.
“So, yes, there’s expectations and people want us to win but we also need to kind of go back to playing in the way that Nebraska’s used to playing. We need to be a physical team, we need to be hard-nosed, and we can’t lose games in the fourth quarter.
Watch the full interview below via The Herd’s official YouTube channel.
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