Comparing Matt Rhule and how he plans on building the Nebraska football program back up after six straight losing seasons to first-year head coach Deion Sanders‘ Colorado football rebuilding efforts is a “bit of a stretch” according to Husker Corner’s Oliver Vandervoort.
“But let’s be clear here, when the Colorado Buffaloes say that Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule is ‘copying’ Deion Sanders when it comes to literally anything, that’s a bit of a stretch,” Vandervoort prefaced before saying, “After all, Rhule has been a successful coach in the college ranks to a degree that allowed him to try his hand in the NFL. Deion has been a head coach for about five minutes in the grand scheme of things. Yes, he’s had some success, at a lower level and for just a few years. But still. Rhule isn’t ‘copying’ him.”
Vandervoort was responding to a claim in a piece titled “Matt Rhule trying to copy Deion Sanders’ blueprint at Nebraska” by Buffs Beat’s Brian Schaible that was rooted in Rhule telling the publication, “Coach Sanders is making Colorado highly relevant and we’re trying to do the same thing.”
Deion Sanders’ Colorado football methods have no imitations
The sentiment that Rhule is trying to overhaul the Huskers in the same vein as Sanders’ Colorado football reclamation project is understandable, but in reality, there are no true imitations of what Coach Prime is doing in Boulder.
If there was? There’d be a national conversation about how first-year coaches are being too hard on the kids they inherited. Only Sanders gets those accusations thrown his way due to his viral locker room speeches in which he minces no words about the kind of team he hopes to send out on the field this fall.
Rhule honoring Sanders’ rebuilding methods is one thing, but he’s not yet, and likely never will be, as forceful as “Prime Time.” And that’s okay because not everyone can do things Deion’s way.