After Matt Rhule’s remarks, former Nebraska football player Ethan Piper criticizes Paul Finebaum.
Former Nebraska offensive lineman Ethan Piper is not happy with Paul Finebaum’s recent comments regarding Cornhuskers coach Matt Rhule, who said four Big Ten teams should get in the College Football Playoff every year because “this is the best league, this is the NFL of college football” at Big Ten Media Days.
Piper, who started 25 games along the offensive line during his career, responded to Finebaum’s harsh critique of Rhule by re-posting the footage from this week’s Get Up appearance on social media before skewering ESPN’s SEC-centric analyst.
“This fires me up! Trying to be respectful as possible but that man would soil himself trying to do the job Coach Rhule is doing right now,” Piper wrote Friday on “X”.
Rhule used his time in Indianapolis at Big Ten Media Days to speak highly on the Huskers and put his respect for the Big Ten against any league in America ahead of this season’s first expanded, 12-team playoff.
The Huskers have not posted a winning season since 2016 and won a modest five games in Rhule’s debut campaign, though that win total did mark a step forward from the Scott Frost era.
“Matt, stay in your lane,” Finebaum said on Friday’s Get Up. “Job one — win enough games to get to some stupid bowl game. Don’t worry about the big boys, because you’re not one of them. We saw what you did in the NFL. You were a complete disaster in Carolina. You somehow got this job in Nebraska, and you’re talking like you belong at the table with Ohio State and Georgia. You don’t. Just try to win, maybe, six games. Quit choking big games on the final play, and leave the punditry to the professionals. Thank you.”
Rhule used his time in Indianapolis at Big Ten Media Days to speak highly on the Huskers and put his respect for the Big Ten against any league in America ahead of this season’s first expanded, 12-team playoff.
