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By far the best UND head coach in my era: Dean Blais. Was 44 when he was hired at UND. ....to continue our statistics class from the other day. These years are related to what is called a "bell curve."

The "new coach bump" is real and we have seen it with Hakstol and Berry. I theorize it's also part of the reason for the high turnover in the NHL.

If I'm a betting man, Schlossman will release a "Names to Watch" tomorrow, And the next head coach will be on that list.

How's he able to beat so many college programs including UND, rated 4th best in the country? Plus the guys gotta be a UND hockey fan, he grew up going to games with his dad at the old Ralph!

So many good non UND coaches out there!

Also beat the Wiscosin Badgers in the Kohl Center this year....including having a 6 - 1 lead at one point! Michigan Wolverines needed overtime to beat them.

Nick Fohr brought kids under 18 to the Ralph and beat Brad Berrys team last year (#4 in the country at the time...Jackson Blake era) Similar to Kalen Deboer bringing Sioux Falls football to the Alerus and winning. Fohr also beat other NCAA programs that year including whipping BU. But UND football passed on Kalen, because he wasn't a "UND guy."

Young. One of the nation's best. Grand Forks native. Hockey family. Took high school kids and beat college programs. Way better than any "UND family member!"

Schlossman actually does work and has contacts though. Miller just regurgitates what he reads online.

I'm thinking Nick Fohr! Bases on my excellent head hunting skills (google searches.) He's easily #1!

And a GF native? Sold!

Go after the best CHL or USHL head coach?

So only question is which UND family member will be coaching UND hockey next year?

Feom the article:

Hopefully not Dane Jackson.

More like a fun Google search with opinions, right or wrong. But I also love glorified message boards. So yeah siouxsports and chaptgpt for the win!

He was a UND assistant coach for 8 years. But yeah, nowadays it seems even our assistant coaches need to former UND players.

Even chatgpt known UND is known for the good ol boys club. It said Brett Larson would be a good hire.

Meh. North Dakota has plenty of cities that have indoor ice for their high school hockey teams.

Has college hockey ever been broadcast on "over the air National TV?" FCS has more schools. And higher attendance. It clearly has a bigger following than college hockey. Nearly 2 and a half million watched NDSU win the natty this year. I don't think hockey natty was ever broke the one million mark.

And let's be honest, college hockey is so irrelevant in the national picture there isn't enough interest/teams to even have a "second tier." Only 60ish D1 schools. The same amount of teams in March Madness. And there's no D2 hockey, so "second tier sport schools" get to play "first tier hockey" only because of lack of national interest.

This is also similar to my experience in Key West last week. "Oh yeah we've heard of NDSU." There's really no doubt NDSU football has much higher national profile than UND hockey. Saw the other day Jon Gruden had a NDSU picture hanging on his hallway wall.

Current DU head coach: been there for 5 "NCAA tournament years".... Who's currently 35 Years old....has already had.... 3 Frozen Four appearances. 2 National Championships. That's my grade "A" and a "program builder"... ...just like (it seems) every NDSU Football coach who they hire.