The success at Baylor was different from the Temple turnaround for current Nebraska Football coach Matt Rhule.
You Have Just Entered The Big TimeIt was December of 2016. Matt Rhule had a decision to make. Should he stay at Temple University where he had turned around an Owl football program that had just produced back-to-back 10 win seasons or take the job at Baylor University?
To be sure, the Baylor football program had problems that were unlike those he had faced at Temple. Ironically, winning football games wasn't the problem at Baylor. In fact, the four years before Matt Rhule took over at Baylor in 2017, the Bears had a 39-13 record for an 82% win rate. In the summer of 2016 and after several years of sexual assault charges leveled against the Baylor football players, Baylor head coach Art Briles was fired. Going with him was Baylor University President, Ken Starr and Athletic Director, Ian McCaw.
With the resignations of Baylor head coach, president and athletic director and with Jim Grobe's decision to want a replacement, it was Matt Rhule's turn at the wheel. To be sure, Rhule was left with a cupboard not entirely bare, but one that was in pretty bad shape. At one point Rhule was down to 70 scholarship players. Remember, Rhule came to Baylor very late in the '17 recruiting season. As a result, Baylor's class was ranked 40th nationally with 28 commits that year The next year-Rhule's first "real" recruiting year-his class was 29th in the nation with 23 commits. His last class at Baylor, 2019, was 35th with 24 signees.
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