Cratter

UND has never hired a head football coach that wasn't a former player or assistant coach. Since the days of leather helmets.

Can't break the 70+ year old tradition of keeping UND Football inbreeding "within the family"!

@gfhockey What's the press conference with Chaves, Bubba, and Fruetche about tomorrow? any tail munbers?

Bubba's new position barely puts a dent in UNDs annual budget. They creating these new jobs left and right lately. Former UND President Kennedy was paying some lady to live in Texas a $120,000+ a year and be like head of Ethnic Studies for Continental Recruitment or something and work "remotely."

Chaves to Fruechte: "We'll give you one year contracts because you're young and unproven. Do good and we'll continue. This is your probation period. Otherwise just a place holder for a longer search..."

Oh wait....maybe... Sounds like the perfect opportunity to name Fruechte the new head coach!

So how soon do do they announce Schmidt as the new head coach? 2 weeks at the most?

Schmidts name being thrown around so much on this site.....means, I'd venture to guess, it's being tossed around equally in the athletic department... It definately feels like there's smoke smoldering....

Brent Bolte seems like the guy with the most potential amongst likely candidates. Or should I say the least risky.

Why hasnt any football team hired Schmidt to be their head coach yet? They all found better options?

Chaves hired Baldwin partly because he had prior EWU connection. So we can use deductive reasoning to basically know it'll be Baldwin or someone with a UND connection.

Chaves hired Baldwin was he was only 36. Pretty young. It would be nice to hire a young coach who after 10 years at UND isn't at retirement age.

I like my head coaches to be fit like their players... Shows Self discipline and Motivation.... Unlike myself.

Ok the two frontrunner are Baldwin and Schmidt. According to Cratter.

The second Bubba left the head coaching position at Duluth....they won a national championship. Despite the red flags....they picked that guy, over the guy who came to the Alerus with a lower division team and laid a whopping on UND.

Maybe Chaves guy said yes and then that got the ball rolling on "let's have a talk Bubba"?

If UND didn't hire from within so often maybe we wouldn't be in this position and only have one championship in a 100 years. The status quo is obviously not working.

Age matters: Tony Annese is like 63 years old.

Steve Ryan at Morningside ready for a new challenge?

Might just be worth taking a gamble. Especially since he's a coaches son. Runs in his blood. Won a championship as a player in HS. Became the Captain of his college football team.

Taking over Mount Union is similar to taking the keys at NDSU.

Ok...so FBS poaches FCS... So I guess if FBS usually decides their best bet is to poach lower leagues... I guess UND should copy that and poach a lower league.

Idk his last head coach position, Cal Poly, thought they were getting a good head coach too:

Pay Brent Vigen whatever he wants.

Jake Landry a dirty word around here?