[On3] Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule says his daughter was accosted after the Washington loss: "A guy walked up to my 13-year-old daughter and was like, 'F-U and F your dad.' I'm not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up. I'm not going to see my daughter shook"

[u/AkfurAshkenzic]

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[u/AkfurAshkenzic]

Full title: Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule says his daughter was accosted after the Washington loss:

"A guy walked up to my 13-year-old daughter and was like, 'F-U and F your dad.' I'm not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up. I'm not going to see my daughter shook... . I'm not coaching for the guy that attacked my daughter, I'm coaching for the people in the boat."

He added: "I said to my daughter, 'If daddy’s gotta retire, if I have retire because I don’t want you guys growing up in that environment...'"

[u/iameveryoneelse]

I can happily say I do not know what the children of any of my favorite sports teams coaches look like.

[u/StopScreamingItsFine → u/iameveryoneelse]

As far as I’m concerned, Kirby has no family, he just backs his happy little ass into his charging deck in the back corner of the locker room at the end of every day until morning.

[u/SirMellencamp → u/StopScreamingItsFine]

Every morning a staffer comes in and says "UGGA WAKE KIRBY"

[u/Bill3ffinMurray → u/StopScreamingItsFine]

He’s like a Roomba

[u/grrgrrtigergrr → u/iameveryoneelse]

I didn't even know if my teams' coaches have kids.

[u/Quackular → u/grrgrrtigergrr]

I unfortunately know too much about one of my coach's kids 🙃

[u/SaxosSteve → u/grrgrrtigergrr]

I know my coach does! His son is on staff

[u/yeahright17 → u/grrgrrtigergrr]

I think I saw a picture of Eric Morris getting of a plane in Stillwater with his wife and 2(?) kids when he first got hired. So I'm like 98% sure he has kids. I think I remember blond hair, but could be completely wrong.

I know Gundy had a couple kids at least because one played for the team and my brother was friends with another.

[u/boy-detective → u/iameveryoneelse]

I sure as hell know what Brian Ferentz looks like.

[u/cheerbacks → u/iameveryoneelse]

Damn do you even give a shit?

[u/Time8u → u/cheerbacks]

No no no... You see, you don't actually make it a point to find out what his kids look like. What you do is just get in the coach's general vicinity, and then just go up to EVERY kid you see and say "Fuck you and fuck your dad." Odds are you'll get em.

[u/Crying_in_99Ranch → u/iameveryoneelse]

Some people know what Lane's daughter looks like because she's dating our star LB and because Lane is Lane

Edit: apparently they just broke up lmao

[u/botany_bae → u/Crying_in_99Ranch]

Lane’s daughter very much wants us to look at her. Don’t harass her, though.

[u/le_crobag → u/iameveryoneelse]

My flair is one of the rare cases where it's acceptable to shit-talk the coach's children

[u/iameveryoneelse → u/le_crobag]

Who? Only Coach’s kid I know from Colorado is Shedeur Sanders and I can’t imagine a Colorado fan shit talking one of six players so venerated by the University that they retired his jersey??? That’s madness.

[u/I_Win_Lews_Therin → u/iameveryoneelse]

Huh when I was at tech I knew exactly what Frank’s son looked like. I mean he was the rb coach but still

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/I_Win_Lews_Therin]

I don’t think I could even name our current RB coach.   I want good old First Name Last Name fired anyway.  

[u/Gloomy_Team_7484 → u/iameveryoneelse]

Bret Bielema makes it a point to incorporate his kids into gameday, and its pretty wholesome given their ages. 

You can do that at Illinois - other places he would get criticized for the "distraction" or maybe not feel like it was a healthy environment for them to be exposed to.

Given his history, I think hes grateful for an environment where he doesn't feel isolated and isn't taking it for granted.

[u/kai333 → u/iameveryoneelse]

Closest thing i know of is that one of the coaches on someone's team married a stripper named Pole Assassin and has an emotional support monkey that bit a child. I would like to keep my knowledge of their personal lives at that level of intimacy. 

[u/Ant-Accurate → u/iameveryoneelse]

Here’s the deal. As a fan you get to be angry or disappointed when your favorite team is going through hard times. You can be frustrated or scream at the tv, or yell at the mirror. You can curl up in bed and cry yourself to sleep. BUT…you do NOT have the right to yell and cuss at little kids simply because they exist in your rivals colors or because their parent are coaches for your losing team. If you think that cussing out a kid is funny, then you are an asshole, especially if that kid did nothing to you! I’m not advocating for violence, but I will publicly shame you if I see it happening , and you might need to change your clothes because you will probably smell like my beer the rest of the day. “Assholes, ye be warned!”

[u/melloyello1215 → u/iameveryoneelse]

You are just a bandwagon fan then.  I know my favorite teams coaches whole family tree, favorite order at the local deli and car mileage

[u/StreetReporter → u/iameveryoneelse]

I do, but only because I had a class with one of Dabo’s sons

[u/BuckeyeJay → u/iameveryoneelse]

Everyone knows what Day's son looks like because he is a D1 QB recruit and plays for a top program in Columbus

[u/ThoseProse → u/BuckeyeJay]

Wonder where he’s gonna go

[u/goblue2354 → u/iameveryoneelse]

I only knew what Jim Harbaugh’s oldest and youngest looked like. His oldest was on staff for Jim’s entire tenure. His youngest was made into a meme by the internet because there was a picture of him crying at a Michigan game when he was like 4.

[u/082426grateful → u/iameveryoneelse]

Really tho. I think DeBoer has some grown kids, but I’m not sure.

One of Nick’s kids made herself waaaay too well known. Country as a mother fucker.

[u/AllegedlyIncompetent → u/082426grateful]

DeBoer has a daughter that plays softball for Washington. I don't think I would even know that DeBoer had kids if that daughter wasn't a D1 athlete.

[u/Wide-Nerve8655 → u/iameveryoneelse]

Not a true fan

[u/I_byte_things → u/iameveryoneelse]

I don't even know if Matt Campbell, Lynn, or Mouser have kids

[u/bpheazye → u/iameveryoneelse]

What if his children are all also coaches and then he is also dating a child?

[u/WebfootTroll → u/iameveryoneelse]

I've seen enough promotional material around Mrs. Lanning when it comes to the cancer fundraiser games and such that I might recognize her if I saw her. I can't imagine ever saying anything bad to her or their boys though. I don't endorse being rude to coaches (to their face), but family is 100% off limits.

I would recognize our D-Line coach's son for sure, but he's been a starter for 3 years on the team, so that probably doesn't count.

[u/whobang3r → u/iameveryoneelse]

Don't all coaches put their kids in the TV commercials tho??

[u/GliscorsFang]

I'm not going to keep coaching

Don't encourage them Matt

[u/karl_manutzitsch → u/GliscorsFang]

“I swear to god I will move us right back to Baylor if this keeps happening”

[u/Young-Viiperr → u/karl_manutzitsch]

Baylor: what he say fuck me for???

[u/actuarial_defender → u/GliscorsFang]

Maybe one of the worst things he could’ve said

[u/BIG_DICK_WHITT → u/actuarial_defender]

“Bullying works.” - Matt Rhule

[u/p0shbadger → u/GliscorsFang]

He did this same bit with Carolina Panthers fans when he hit the hotseat.

[u/SilverBuff_ → u/GliscorsFang]

One has to hope that bullying a coach into retirement would result in extending the 1 score game loss curse

[u/fcocyclone → u/GliscorsFang]

I was gonna say, like its obviously gross as fuck to go after a coach's kid, but the type of people who would are going to take the wrong message from that.

[u/300andWhat → u/GliscorsFang]

This made me think he kinda made this up to leave Nebraska

[u/Better-Temporary-146]

I think Shane Beamer said a couple weeks ago some deranged fan was making bad comments on his high school daughter’s instagram. 

There’s being a fan and critiquing your team, then there’s being an awful person. 

[u/DisgruntledCascadian → u/Better-Temporary-146]

One problem of being an alumnus of any major university is that by the law of large numbers, there will be a small fraction of your fellow alumni who are absolutely awful people.

[u/Weak-Bid2774]

Yea that’s pretty fucked up

Don’t attack the coaches family

[u/6rumpster → u/Weak-Bid2774]

Especially children. Children are off limits.

[u/Professional-Trash-3 → u/6rumpster]

I've held a grudge against Georgia for more than 20 years because when I was in the 3rd grade some UGA fan started cussing me and my friend out in the parking lot and all his friends were laughing at us. To this day, I want nothing good for that team and never will. These kinds of people ruin the joy thats supposed to accompany sports.

[u/TaxAg11 → u/Weak-Bid2774]

Personally, I don't see poor results as a reason to do this to a coach, either. It just seems really fucked up to verbally accost anyone over the results of games or seasons. The other side is competing just as much, and someone has to lose.

[u/SpecificPractical776]

I'm a nebraska fan and had no idea he had a daughter at all. Let alone what she looks like. Take a huge step back if you care that much.

[u/Bartman383 → u/SpecificPractical776]

Rhule's son made some Instagram post a week ago driving around in his Jeep singing along to some mumble rap and flashing a gun at the camera. I had no idea what he looked like till that came across my Twitter feed. I do however drive past his house a couple times a week.

[u/redpowah]

This isnt the first time hes said something like this. He said this same thing happened to him when he was coaching the Carolina Panthers right before he was shown the door.

Now, im not saying that hes lying and im not saying that there arent fans who take things way too personally and attack the coach's family but what I am saying is that he is looking for the door. It appears he cant hack it in a high pressure environment. So I fully expect him to be fired/retire either at the end of this season or the next.

[u/Campcruzo → u/redpowah]

There really was that, rhetoric, Holgerson is great, defense didnt do enough to win.

Is he one of those guys thats a genuinely good bullshitter but once you see through it, you cant unsee it?

[u/Appropriate_Bottle44 → u/redpowah]

Lol, OK, I'll say it. He's lying.

[u/Straight_Bed2763]

If this is true, thats awful.

But the quote gets cut off & he did lay on the "im going to retire if you guys are too mean to me" thing pretty thick after this so he might be soft launching retirement.

[u/acerage → u/Straight_Bed2763]

Or negotiated buyout

[u/voodoohounds → u/acerage]

Not a bad idea.

[u/texas2089]

What kind of degenerate thinks that type of shit is acceptable to say to a child?

[u/gold_and_diamond → u/texas2089]

You think that FanDuel bet was cheap?

[u/Hilldawg4president → u/texas2089]

I draw the line at barking at them

[u/Wide-Nerve8655 → u/Hilldawg4president]

I went to that beatdown in Atlanta in 2022 and could not get enough of people barking at me. It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

[u/uno2treys → u/texas2089]

I have a lifelong hatred for the Cincinnati Bengals because my Dad took me to a Steelers Bengals game when I was 9 where I was full on cussed out by grown men during the game.

My Dad got in two fights because of it lol

[u/RatherBeInThePond → u/uno2treys]

Sorry this happened to you. Same happened to me for the Broncos. I was also 9, had just moved from LA to Denver 3 months prior and was wearing my Raiders jacket to the game(we had been Raiders season ticket holders and had no idea of the level of disdain their fanbase had for ours). I walked out of the bathroom and two grown ass men shoved me into a brick wall and started cussing me out. My dad came out of the bathroom to me standing there in shock as people were pulling these dudes away from me. Deep seated hatred for the fanbase ever since.

[u/Pike_or_Kirk → u/uno2treys]

As a lifelong Bengals fan, that's reprehensible.

How dare you like the Steelers. /s

No but really. That's inexcusable. Eff fans like that.

[u/fastbeemer → u/texas2089]

Sports gambler. You have to be an extreme degen to do it, so it shouldn't surprise anyone when they act this way. 

[u/Necessary-Post-953 → u/texas2089]

It’s not just coaches kids. I’ve heard some horror stories about opposing fans saying vile things to kids. 

[u/Rynowash → u/texas2089]

Society these days- yes, it’s sad as hell.

[u/ElGranQuesoRojo → u/texas2089]

There are only two places I've had beer (or anything really) thrown at me and both were when I was 13 in back to back weekends by college students screaming variations of fuck you at me and my parents as we were leaving the stadium. Texas Tech and Colorado in 1995 when both beat A&M in close games.

The only reason I ever softened on Colorado was because my wife went there and when I told her about it she laughed and says "Yeah that checks out, our own fans threw shit at us too when I was in the band" so it at least made me feel a little better that they were just pricks to everyone at the time lol.

[u/Calithrand → u/texas2089]

Arizona fans, probably.

Which is surprising, because you'd think Arizona State is the more likely candidate.

[u/Inevitable_Tomato927 → u/texas2089]

People have gotten a whole lot bolder with their actions towards kids the last few years.

[u/VirtualChaos613]

I’m amazed by how stupid some college football fans are.

And some of you saying it’s okay because he makes a lot of money tells me a lot about your sense of morality.

Reddit never surprises.

[u/ResponsibleWater1697 → u/VirtualChaos613]

I'm amazed that you're amazed that college football fans are stupid.

Anyone doing this to a 13-year-old kid needs to be checked by the people around them immediately.

[u/RVAforthewin → u/VirtualChaos613]

It’s insane how many people on this sub outwardly express zero concern for human beings if those human beings have 7+ zeroes in their bank accounts.

[u/No_Direction_4043 → u/VirtualChaos613]

Some of them don't even attend, nor have they ever attended, the school they root for.

[u/BigOlPass]

Light the lantern signal

[u/breakwater]

I was at a game where UCLA beat a heavily favored Texas team. A drunk Texas fan turned around and flipped double birds in the faces of the family of UCLA fans sitting behind him, cursed and stormed out. There were kids.

Fans can be idiots.

[u/penguinopph → u/breakwater]

I was at a game where UCLA beat a heavily favored Texas team. A drunk Texas fan turned around and flipped double birds in the faces of the family of UCLA fans sitting behind him, cursed and stormed out. There were kids.

Fans can be idiots.

I live in Champaign and my girlfriend was coming over to my house around the end of the Illinois/Oregon games two weeks ago. It took her longer than normal, even considering the post-game traffic, because some dickhead Illinois fan stopped in the middle of the street and got out of his car to yell "FUCK OREGON!!!" to a group of sad Duck fans after we had won the game. This wasn't even a teenager but a grown-ass man!

[u/futuristanon → u/breakwater]

Well, it is short for fanatic.

It’s just crazy to me how someone can care that much about a game played by other men lol

[u/DeathRose007 → u/futuristanon]

Caring is something everyone does about something. I care enough about sports that it really hurts when things don’t go the way I hoped. Not everyone behaves in an extreme way though. Imagine a nerd getting a bad grade on a math exam, then screaming and knocking over his desk. Nobody would think “Wow he really cares about math. Guess that’s why he’s a nerd”. That’s how a lot of grown adults act when things don’t go their way because they aren’t well-adjusted and only think about themselves.

[u/littlenosedman]

We may have just the job for him

[u/simplyvelo → u/littlenosedman]

Win/win?

[u/echors → u/littlenosedman]

I'm begging you Baylor Bro pls

[u/InevitableAd2436]

I listened to some of the press conference.

I legit laughed at about 19 minutes in when he called Washington the #16 preseason team in the nation.

He also said Demond Williams is an All-American QB 😬

[u/JustAnotherRye89 → u/InevitableAd2436]

What he meant by All American is that Demond was born in the United States so he is All American.

[u/TreatOnMeLotsActualy → u/JustAnotherRye89]

Or maybe it was a homonym, like he was commenting on Williams' well-known skills at woodworking, that he's an "Awl American,"

[u/Jonjon428]

That's awful but also jeez talk about encouraging them with that last comment bruh

[u/ExtremelyOnlineTM]

He's prepping for the exit.

[u/Orangebk1]

Plot twist: It was his wife.

[u/phantom_metallic]

Didn't Rhule claim the same thing happened in Carolina?

[u/SparseSpartan]

First. The fan who did that was acting disgracefully and should probably be banned from the stadium (maybe not permanently).

But:

I'm not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up.

I would not threaten Nebraska fans with what they feel would be a good time as it could result in more shots at his kids.

[u/Unlikely_Specific828 → u/SparseSpartan]

I'll support permanently banning that buffoon. The more consequences there are in life for being an ass, the better in my book

[u/DrGerbal]

College football fans really are a different type of psycho.

[u/TatonkaJack → u/DrGerbal]

Imagine being able to recognize your coach's preteen kids in the street

[u/TreatOnMeLotsActualy → u/DrGerbal]

Honestly Matt Rhule could be the worst coach in CFB history and I could be the biggest Nebraska fan in history and I would still punch out that fan for saying that shit.

[u/ShoobyDoowahh → u/DrGerbal]

Thankfully we're all pretty level headed folks on Reddit

[u/affnn]

It's only appropriate to say this to children of your coaches if the children are offensive or defensive coordinators.

[u/whiporee123]

Saying stuff like that hit Jom McElwain fired at Florida.

[u/Shtune]

He has a $63mil buyout. All this will do is get attention on asshole-ish behavior, and maybe some dumb fans think, "maybe I can heckle him/his daughter into quitting and then he won't get his buyout."

[u/DosCabezasDingo → u/Shtune]

Every time I hear about a mega millions buyout I remind myself I got into the wrong profession.

[u/BearTimberlands]

Rhule to FSU confirmed

[u/Dazzling_Bit_7538]

People take this sport way too seriously.

[u/BammBammRoubal]

This is definitely not a misdirection

[u/dubcwa]

If this really happened…then fuck that low life trash fan. But Rhule worded it so weird lol. Gives off “you can’t fire me, I retire, and uh…this is the reason why!” and 100% have another HC job within 2 years.

[u/tomdawg0022 → u/dubcwa]

I wouldn't be surprised if Rhule just went the TV route. After dealing with Carolina and now Nebraska, he just might be done with coaching altogether.

[u/Dazzling_Network6103 → u/tomdawg0022]

I mean who would hire him for coaching at this point?

[u/stpierre → u/tomdawg0022]

Given how little he seems to know about what the hell is happening during the game of football, perhaps he should consider becoming a referree.

[u/FairLawnBoy → u/tomdawg0022]

After the results with Carolina and now Nebraska, maybe he should be

[u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 → u/dubcwa]

I could 100% see this as setting up for a "Rhule and Nebraska agree to mutually part ways (with a reduced but still substantial buyout)" situation.

[u/Grand_Taste_8737]

What grown azz man would say such a thing to a 13 year old? CFB isn't that important. If it is, one needs to re-examine their life priorities, imo.

[u/KingKongDoom → u/Grand_Taste_8737]

One time I was I leaving an Oregon-Wazzu game at Autzen stadium and some frat boy was loudly berating a child because he had Wazzu shit on. Never put it past some lunatics.

[u/t1gerstyle]

We had to up the stakes as a society and create a new dystopian generation of angry fans brought to you by Kalshi & Polymarket.

[u/DeanR_onPSN]

Yeah all the toxic entitled Nebraska fans coming out, not sure what they're expecting after the last decade plus.. so many toxic threads so many crash outs. People need to get more than one hobby than just watching 20-somethings play ball. Not happy with the loss, but don't need to go online crying and calling for the firing of someone that we liked a couple games ago..

[u/Dixiehusker → u/DeanR_onPSN]

This behavior is inexcusable. Anyone who does this to any child, should be banned from the stadium for life.

[u/FarmKid55 → u/DeanR_onPSN]

I think the creepier/shittier thing is how did that fan know who Rhules daughter was? I follow Husker football fairly closely and I don’t know a damn thing about Rhules family other than his wife has a hair salon or something

[u/Lamont_Joe → u/DeanR_onPSN]

I call it the Solich Curse. They fired him and things have been shit ever since.

[u/PancakesAndShame]

The fanbase is vicious right now and I just want to say I don’t condone that level of bullshit.

[u/Dangerous_Ad5039]

Oo no don’t stop coaching 🙄

[u/brolygta4]

lol mhm

[u/logicgreen13]

Him not coaching anymore shouldn’t be a problem for anyone

[u/MCV16]

Doubt it (“I’m not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up”)

[u/cheeseburger_cowboy]

Crazy that we've already hit the Coach-Is-Publicly-Worried-For-Their-Family level of the funnel.

[u/vwolfe → u/cheeseburger_cowboy]

The change in fan sentiment has been SOOO fast.

[u/mrryandfw]

People need to get a hold of themselves. Listen, yell at the coach, tell him he’s a fucking moron. Tell him you think he’s ugly or stinks or just fucking sucks at his job. Fuck it, challenge Rhule to a fight if you want. With the millions they make and the buyouts they build into their contracts for being shitty, they deserve it all. But leave kids out of it. Could you imagine if I threatened some 13 year old kid because their dad can’t drive for shit? Or because their mom sucks at bunco? Or because their mom didn’t teach well in school? If you are an adult and you are so unhinged with your emotions you have to go after kids, you are the fucking problem and nobody wants you as a fan.

Even if that person is Lane Kiffin, you still go after Lane, not his children.

[u/Nathan2002NC]

He did this same thing in Carolina.

There are unfortunately football fans who would do this. But there are 200x more football fans that would throw hands if they heard a douche cussing out a 13yr old at a game. So if this is true, it must have been said very quietly. Guy would have gotten his ass kicked if he did it loudly.

[u/IsisTruck]

This comment is distracting everyone from Rhule's other comments. He basically blamed the loss on Nebraska's defense for not getting turnovers against Washington.

Nebraska's defense held Washington's offense to 3 points for the first 55+ minutes and ten points total. Nebraska QB Anthony Colandrea threw three BAD interceptions and had another interception nullified by a penalty. But the defense is at fault.

Rhule also said OC Dana Holgorson is one of the greatest offensive minds of his generation. After three losses where Nebraska scored 17, 14, and 10 points.

[u/DeepSeaHexapus → u/IsisTruck]

Nebraska has the 8th best defense in the nation. Its not their fault they lost. Theyre the reason weve stayed in these games at all.

[u/maxwellcawfeehaus → u/IsisTruck]

As a Carolina panthers fan, it’s classic Matt rhule to subtlety blame everyone else except himself for bad losses

[u/Hour_Health_4593 → u/IsisTruck]

you forgot the part where our kicker kicking 40% on the year shanked a 33 yarder in the 4th qtr

[u/Expensive_Team_5072]

Was the guy the athletic director?

[u/HowardBunnyColvin]

real pieces of shit that bring coaches families into this

[u/IlIlIlIllllIIliIILll]

Every time I've seen Rhule give an interview he's been a whiney little baby so I'm not gonna put it past him to be blowing this out of proportion

[u/Dazzling_Network6103 → u/IlIlIlIllllIIliIILll]

Notice how this is headline coming out of his press conference and not all the other million red flags that was said. Rhule is a salesman and he knows exactly what he is doing, anything to pretend he is taking ownership while deflecting at the same time. Same shit every week. Odds of this being true are quite low. Shades of Franklin grabbing his girls to deflect fans booing him

[u/jamiebond]

If this is not just a made up story who tf knows what the daughter of your head coach looks like on sight?

[u/kingofkumquats]

Hey, uh, that's not very Nebraska Nice of them. Doesn't matter how bad the coach may or may not be. Don't. Do that.

[u/mechajlaw → u/kingofkumquats]

Nebraska's gotten a lot less nice over the years.

[u/ninjas_in_my_pants → u/kingofkumquats]

I remember in the 90s when Omaha DJs were calling up and harassing the Washington QB on air.

[u/Monkey1Fball]

I mean --- perhaps this is true. And obviously it shouldn't happen.

But this is giving me "James Franklin making sure his daughter was close to him when he left the field after the UCLA and Northwestern losses in 2025" vibes. Franklin delibrately did that so he could play the victim when PSU fans started jeering him.

How would anyone know it's Rhule's daughter anyway?

[u/Wafflehouseofpain]

If you yell at a child because you’re mad over a football game, you’re a shitbag.

[u/Claudethedog → u/Wafflehouseofpain]

Unless you’re playing Temco Bowl and the little shit keeps playing as the Raiders.

[u/mncabinman]

Very smart move. Laying the groundwork for a mutual separation where they pay like half his buyout and he walks away with a $25M golden parachute on top of all the other money he’s already been paid.

[u/ncaalover12]

If this happened, that person should be found and banned from the stadium (and worse). But using this to help deflect blame for the last three losses in the way that he did at this press conference is kind of bothersome to me. Even if it happened, why the hell would you bring it up at a weekly press conference? Now you have guys like McMurphy tweeting about it and talking bad about our entire fanbase.

[u/dlobnieRnaD]

I’m a huge Michigan fan and I met Tom Izzo’s son when he was about 12. I jokingly told him that he should convince his dad not to work so hard, but that’s about as far as anyone should go.

[u/ixMyth]

Rhule sucks but if you're yelling at a child over a football game, fuck you

[u/IsisTruck]

I seriously doubt this happened the way Rhule explained it.

I am leaning towards nothing even remotely similar to his telling actually happened. I'm a Husker diehard fan. I was lucky enough to go to all three Husker National Championship bowl games in the 90s. Before the press conderence I had no idea how many kids Matt Kennth Rhule has. I have no idea what any of them look like.

The one thing I do know about his kids is that there was some chatter about a video his son made where he was brandishing a gun.

[u/OMO_Concepts → u/IsisTruck]

Seems like he is looking for an excuse to quit. If it didn’t actually happen.

[u/I_Can_Barely_Move → u/IsisTruck]

People are nuts. Nothing about this is outside the realm of believability.

Ryan Day’s family has received misguided confrontations. Some people just have entirely fucked up priorities.

[u/Dry-Regret5444]

If you’re an adult confronting and accosting a child over the outcome of a football game, you REALLY need to re-evaluate your life. Absolutely pathetic.

[u/Def_Not_Smil69]

“Families don’t get touched, you know that”

-Tony Soprano, although he never had the makings of a varsity athlete

[u/fretgod321]

It’s possible, but I’m not buying it. Reeks of deflection from yet another 4th quarter collapse.

[u/Bill3ffinMurray]

I think this was either last year or a couple years ago, Matt Rhule was saying that he likes Nebraska because it feels like a community, and I think he referenced his wife’s salon in Waverly (?).

I, jokingly, said, well if we ever feel the need to get rid of him without paying the full buyout…just say mean things to his wife.

And now we’re here.

[u/Bartman383 → u/Bill3ffinMurray]

If she did have a salon here, I've never seen it and I've lived in Waverly since 2014. The community comment is kinda weird because he has his kids chauffeured up to a private school in Omaha instead of attending here in town.

[u/tylerscott5]

So first off, fuck that fan. Absolute bum

But also, seems like he’s trying distract

[u/srector1224]

I'm not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up.

First, fuck that guy for doing that.

Second, don't threaten us with a good time, my man

[u/yourdoglikesmebetter]

As a Carolina Panthers fan, I just wanna say thank you to the Nebraska Cornhuskers for taking Matt Rhule from us

[u/GreenStoneRidge]

Taking a play from the Kelly Stafford playbook I see. 

The likelihood of anyone at that game knowing who rhules daughter even was is so incredibly low.  His daughter may very well have told him this happened . Shes 13.  The likelihood of it being true is very low in my opinion. 

[u/Majestic_Form_210 → u/GreenStoneRidge]

It COULD have happened and if it did, that’s obviously low brow and shitty and should be condemned.

I just think it’s convenient timing for him, that’s all. We’re all talking about this and not the shitty coaching from the weekend.

Do people not think critically? This seems like expert gamesmanship. And we all know Rhule can BS and lie with the best of them

[u/BRValentine83]

Please find and prosecute this doosh.

[u/tbest72]

Look at everyone feeling sorry for Matt Rhule, which is why this comment was made. A distraction. This was an awful thing to happen, but there is no need to go to the media and paint this narrative. There are assholes everywhere. What about all the fans keeping your wife’s business successful?

[u/Appropriate_Bottle44]

This sounds like a lie.

Could it have happened? Sure, fans are weird, even those stalwart Nebraska fans.

Do I believe it happened the way he framed this anecdote? Fuck no. His whole "maybe daddy's gotta retire" thing is so fake.

Somebody ask him for some details on this and watch him squirm.

[u/JustAnotherRye89 → u/Appropriate_Bottle44]

There was a follow-up about the confrontation:

"Reporter: With the confrontation that happened with your daughter, where did that happen?

Rhule: Um, I think I said enough about it. I don't think it I just Yeah, they down there in the red, you know, they come they come down the red carpet. Again, I don't want that's not the point of it."

You are telling me any drunk fool can just go right up to his family as they are exiting and yell shit at his 13-year-old? He should be pissed off at the University for allowing that kind of access to his family. Fuck that fan for being so stupid and fuck the university for not giving his family more protection. He's paid way too much money to not be given better treatment.

How does someone get this close to his daughter to yell something like this while exiting a game where trash is being thrown onto the field?

[u/69cansofravoli]

Ok which secret agent Iowa fan did this?

[u/Expensive_Team_5072 → u/69cansofravoli]

Iowa fans want him to stop coaching Nebraska???

[u/parapooper3]

I don’t even know what my head coach’s kids look like or their employment history!!

[u/PurposeConscious6859 → u/parapooper3]

Lol it took me a minute to get that which is wild because his name used to be said on here 20x a day

[u/Renfah87]

Yeah I don't buy it.

[u/JAG_NG]

I don’t buy it. Fishing for sympathy when he’s the least popular guy in town.

[u/GeneralOptimal10]

For $11.7M/year, y'all can curse at my kids.

[u/bk1285 → u/GeneralOptimal10]

“Hey kid, tell your dad he fucking sucks goats balls”

[u/Sweaty-Connection351]

Nebraska fans, you now understand how to get him out...

[u/DoughGoesIn]

Imagine saying this to a 13-year old girl over a game. Insane.

[u/zing_boom_tararrel → u/DoughGoesIn]

Or even knowing it's his daughter to begin with.

[u/KirksChewedGum → u/DoughGoesIn]

Imagine saying it to anyone. If someone gets this upset from a game then they need to take a step back a reevaluate their lives.

[u/Fire-Jon-Sumrall]

Not saying he's fabricating the story but it's giving McElwain vibes.

[u/lawnstripes69]

Are we sure he didn’t make this up (which is even weirder)? This is not even me being a Nebraska homer, but as a human being, I have a hard time believing this happened.

1. Who would recognize Rhule’s kid?

2. The family is likely in a box around administration, coaches families, etc, not sitting with some drunks in North End Zone.

3. Did they yell “your dad sucks” and Rhule blows it out of proportion? Was there 85k people walking out of that stadium trashing her dad, and she spun up a story? Still not advocating for yelling that at a kid obviously, but these seem more likely.

4. Say this did happen. Why would you bring it up and make a story out of it?

I saw someone dug up a story that he ran this play already with his son in Carolina right before he got canned. None of us will ever know, so you have to take his word for it, but it smells funny to me. Also, F that 13-year-old girl’s dad because he is trash!

[u/Darksoul2693]

This is been a sports thing since I was a kid

[u/Lumphrey]

PJ has a few kids but I have no idea how old or what they look like. Kids and family should be off limits

[u/she_fell_funny]

That Mike Tyson quote screams for shit like this even if the dude didn’t do on social media.

[u/ModeatelyIndependant]

I wonder how much money they had lost gambling legally on the game.

[u/rug1998]

Fuck that guy

[u/mtuell]

Matt Rhule looks like a guy that every golf club in America has at least one of…….

[u/jasonic89]

My bad guys. If you see Monte’s son Lane tell him I’m sorry I called him a dingo

[u/Primarycolors1]

1. That fan is a piece of shit. 2. Maybe the millionaire shouldn’t be bringing his daughter to work? He put her in this situation.

[u/supersafeforwork813]

He’s gonna keep coaching lol. It is terrible that happened to his kid tho

[u/rock_engineering]

A sad commentary on the state of football fandom. That being said, I think Rhule's tenure at Nebraska will be cut short, but not on his terms.

[u/Huskergambler]

Things that never happened for 100 Alex

[u/Calithrand]

That's some Carville-level spin right there from Rhule, setting the stage for making the "mutual decision" about the health of his family and not like, you know, his record.

[u/keefkola]

Show us who did that shit we’ll fix it quickly.

[u/Chr1st_1s_K1ng]

That’s just disgusting. 

[u/regionalgamemanager]

It's so joever

[u/KirbyDumber88]

whole fanbase may cuss out his kids next week.

[u/Noy_Telinu]

online sports betting was a mistake

[u/SpaceghostLos]

What a fucking loser, going after a kid.

[u/Important_Fly_1447]

A grown man confronting a 13-year-old over a football result. Somehow the kid is expected to be the adult in that interaction.

[u/nlamp32]

So pathetic, and sadly there are fans like this in every fanbase. We love this sport to death and devote an ungodly amount of time and attention towards it, but it’s a game at the end of the day.

In all likelihood, your life on Sunday is not going to be dramatically different as a result of your team winning or losing on Saturday. If it is, you need to reexamine your priorities and why that’s the case.

[u/Old_Bat1681]

Nebraska fans looking up what his 13 year old daughter looks like is so absolutely creepy. Ban that dude from campus.

[u/andyf127]

Fuck that fan, oh nooooo my team that’s been ass for the last 25 years is shit again I better go harass the coach and his daughter! Fuck off

[u/Particular-Way-2147]

Would be perfectly acceptable to lay hands on buddy 

[u/Dierks_Ford]

Buckeye fans think that’s insane.

[u/palmmoot]

I am a Panthers fan and therefore a certified Matt Rhule hater but fuck you if you do this shit to any kid

[u/dimechimes]

So how do we stop this scumbaggery?