From a Baylor fan on Rhule’s three year turnaround strategy

I saw this the other day and wanted to get your thoughts…

Edit: I am not the Baylor fan. I am just sharing what I read

“Matt Rhule model can buy you a lot of time and respect too. Source: Temple/Baylor

Year 1: Bad “rebuilding year” where you purposely play freshmen/projects that you wouldn’t otherwise play but it gets the results worse (1-11 and 2-10) so you can exceed them later. Lose to FCS and G5 programs to really make the program feel it. (Baylor lost to UTSA and Liberty, Temple lost to Fordham and Idaho) They can’t fire you so this just adds to the inevitable turnaround.

Year 2/3: After year 1 you will be using your bad year as a reason to recruit top freshman by promising them playing time. Barely scrap together a bowl team with the freshmen you played the year before now becoming an experienced group. You want a noticeable improvement here but not necessarily a team in title contention. The jump from bottom to bowl team is big enough to really create momentum.

Year 3/4: Use that group as juniors and seniors to win 10+ games and then brag about the turnaround from year 1 even though once that whole group graduates/goes to the NFL the program will inevitably see a decline. By this point you have also stopped recruiting as you are preparing to leave citing your rebuild as finished.

This is when you jump to the next job (Baylor, Panthers, probably Penn State)”