F'n Hawks

My guess is it will be local focus with a couple portal additions to supplement. I’m guessing Demers will still be on roster and he will probably have to go get another big. I’ll also be curious to see if he runs a similar style as he did in Mayville.

Hutter did the same thing at Mayville. Most of the roster was ND or MN.

Although I know more about football and a bigger fan there, I have enjoyed reading this thread. Some good laughs. I think UND nailed the football hire but time will tell. An athletic department with football and hockey both doing well will be a great thing for this university and all us die hard fans.

We did get 3 good years of Eaglestaff, probably could have left after last year but made himself a lot of money I really don’t believe Josie will be making a bunch of money elsewhere. She should learn from Eaglestaff and develop here and transfer after year 2 or 3.

Agreed this should have happened a week ago at the latest.

I understand NDSU is the better program but kind of a lateral move. Does she not like Hutter?

Has Northern hired their coach yet?

So Sather survives one more year?

https://careers.und.edu/jobs/head-coach-men-s-hockey-grand-forks-north-dakota-united-states

The real question is if he will name drop you for this search like Tom did for football

Just a reminder for everyone, just like the football search: SS will have this before Brad and the herald. @Shawn-O and @gfhockey will be working hard tracking tail numbaz and doing all the dirty work!

You are not exaggerating at all. Listed every accomplishment he had as a coach and everything that went wrong.

I wonder if it will go similar to the football search. (Is there an obvious hire that will fall into his lap so that even Chaves can’t screw it up?)

Does he want to take the Ihenacho route of coming back and transferring out again?

Agreed. There has been nothing on the basketball coaches. If you were going to make a move it probably should have been made already. No announcement of an extension either. (Which Sather, Mal, and Berry don’t deserve) When Mal and Sather were extended last time it was announce Mar 14th. So it does appear there is a chance they let them coach on the last year of their contract, which is crazy to think about.

Was wondering the same thing. It looks like they may lame duck 3 coaches next year… Talk about basically punting and giving up for a year in 3 of your main sports. Chaves contract runs through June 2026. Do they get rid of Chaves soon, let all 3 coaches contracts expire and then let the new AD hire all the new coaches? No idea how this will all play out

Yep and Schmidt hired one this time around. Was something he felt was important and really fought for

Anybody going to make it to any spring practices? I hope to make it to the spring wrap up

First commit!

Every team in the conference has to deal with it. Fidler transferred from Omaha, Bison losing a bunch again this year, SDSU has consistently lost players, etc… I truly believe we can be successful with the right coach in place. We can cry NIL and transfer portal (which to an extent is a very real issue for mid majors) but we can’t keep repeating those excuses. It’s a loser mentality.

Are we going to be all time bad next year?

That would be my guess.

I have belief in year 7!