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Brewstertime here at UND was something unique in yes he had success but I also think his success and health problems eventually brought him to his dismal. His success came early here and I think he thought he was going to move on to next level which never came which is probably known in college AD circles. Second he had major back problems when here which I think effected his work which is not unusual when dealing with on going pain. Then combining that I believe with frustration of not getting opportunities he believed he deserved started environment of putting his time to program and that bled over into his player recruitment and coaching weakening the program. Until he was finally dismissed as coach. Bernhard assistant coach and being former player well liked at school and community was promoted following UND history of working way up in coaching ranks. The problem here this put on long deterioration of program to ultimate deystoying what Roebuck had built here in his tenure. What showed she was not ready to be head coach and did not have enough experience to become head coach and second get on fast curve of learning and developing her coaching skills but followed her history as she played the game. Then it came to assistant coaching changes until administration I believe put pressure on to find help with experienced assistant coaching skills but enter Hutter where we are now. i will not go further but What we have now fan base frustrated and they think we’re in much stronger position and just matter one new higher we will have conference championship in year or two this is not the case now. This is going to take time rebuild we have number of good positives but we also have number deficiencies that need to be addressed plus greatest shake up in division I sports in past 60 years. Basically we’re back where small mid majors are playing for conference championships and zero chance of having impact on national level in major sports.

NDSU made commitment after Jory Collins was hired in basketball and they improved facilities and money for women’s basketball. Second when he started we didn’t have portal and NIl money involved. He inherited two players in beginning with above average center and very good point guard to start building team around but he even struggled in the beginning having trouble getting team chemistry but continued to find players out of twin cities and Iowa to build this team. Then this past year when Schiller transferred he finally found point guard he needed. Now it appears this team will stay together for another year to reach NCAA tournament. Also there are not many job openings right now for him to move on that are better than NDSU in Midwest. The bottom line for UND in this coming year our goal will be find couple more players that combined with few of this years younger players come together to crest score of players to begin to compete in the conference increase win total to 10 to 15 games if things go well. To win at DI level need experienced players even NDSU learned this year there team had a lot of success but to win conference you need core of seniors when it comes down the stretch which they didn’t have. My hope with these last roster spots were able to find couple of players that puts ahead of schedule and we can keep in the program. Now let’s hear how we cand do this in one or two years to top of the conference.

No Berhard recruits are not all gone Piekney, Hillesheim, Harvey, Reardon, and Mathern we’re all recruited by Berhard and also commit of fricke coming in this year are go back to Berhard. Miller, Harris, and klosterbuer on team now are now Hutter recruits. His other recruits were Ohnstad ( transferred), miller and Hughes ( grad transfers) short term players fill in this past year. We now will have several more recruits coming in this coming year we should see if he is getting few more players on his roster construction. I believe when he brought in Ohnstad he thought he was getting player to build on that never developed for what ever reason but that happens with recruits. The bottom line is this coming year we’re still going to be very young team again making it hard to know where we are at when we’re building with mostly young high school players.

Reardon was walk on last year wonder if she been offered scholarship. If not that would leave 3 scholarships available and if she has gone on scholarship then we have two remaining.

The 2025- 2026 season ended Sunday time to start new thread for coming season. We’re in portal season and roster construction which will start a lot opinions in next few weeks. We are in longterm rebuild here with number of people that are very impatient thinking we can turn this around in year or two but I believe is not possible anymore. The small mid-major programs like we are in very difficult position especially when we have couple of dominant programs with established programs dominating the conference where there recruits are almost now guaranteed post season bid helpful. In recruiting and retaining players. Women’s basketball is different than men’s basketball depth of players is not as deep or finding girls that have physical abilities and maturity to build dominant roster. NDSU has taken seven years to compete to win the conference and even there they still didn’t make the dance and they are far ahead of us with there NIL money. There are positive things happening now with UND in infrastructure starting to be addressed and we have several new recruits hopefully that will turn out and past year we had couple players that made improvements. Also improvements training and dietary being implemented. Hopefully we are at low point and we start rebuilding this program.

I see inforum story we have three transfers in the portal Sky Volmer, Finley Ohnstad and Fletcher listed in the portal. Volmer we knew about, Ohnstad I wasn’t surprised I don’t think she bought in even though she showed promise on the offensive side of the ball it will be interesting see where she ends up and how her career progresses in the future, Fletcher hasn’t developed enough to get enough playing time and would struggle to get more playing time unless she could make off season improvement. I wonder if parent on here is one of these girls or if his daughter still on the team. I hope so or we have serious problem going forth because have all these complaints but you don’t stand up follow through end this move on in effect then you loose all credibility.

Well said and needed to be said. I do believe you that UND is addressing things needed to improve basketball programs and I thought these things have come to forefront when president Armacost started by assembling people to address infrastructure last fall. I also don’t believe we don’t have dI talent on this team we had youngest team in Summit conference let’s face it don't will at dI level with Freshman and Sophomores. Hutter has been winner at place that have less that big resources when he was at Mayville but he found way to win there. Even there he struggled to begin with but he learned how to get to successful program there and that has been my hope here I think he has to be on large learning curve now jumping to DI level and I think we saw some of that as season went along because this team improved and finally they played hard as team and played together not what I hear from this disgusted parent so this is why I have had hard time buying in on his complaints.I like to hear what Iramurphy said about Hutter to me it shows he fully engaged. This program was in very bad shape a year ago and if we were realistic seven game win season was probably better than we should of seen Mallory Berhard on her first year inherited much better team and she only two games and team got worse as season went along.

Where I saw this was already pickup nationally listing NDSU having head coach position opening.

I see they just announced that Jory Collins is going to Penn State as new head coach. This will result number of transfers in Fargo now with coaching change. Conferences like Summit are in constant turn over of players and coaches only constant has been Aaron Johnson at South Dakota State next longest tenured coach is at Kansas City at three years. I don’t see how this continues there is no future for these programs to build something when coaches and players are looking at schools in this conference as stepping stone to their next job or school where they get pay day.

My source was on3 looking under the Summit conference they had Sky Volmer intends to transfer. Usually they have information on transfers pretty current.

I see that Sky Volmer intends to transfer sorry to hear that. It will be interesting to see where she goes to she has the quickness and I believe ability to play at this level but she needs to get stronger and more physical if she is going to have success at this level. I could see her dropping down level if she is looking for more playing time.

How long is it before they establish two tier system for basketball small mid major conferences with portal have zero chance of having Cinderella run in the tournament and soon tv won’t want to air these blowouts we have had this year. The small midmajor schools with the portal can never build team to compete and now mid majors schools will be young players just playing a year or two then start moving and following the money. Today top schools in division I is no longer amateur sports but minor league professional sports. I think this has to run the course until scandal and public interest wains until whole system collapses..

You have to be referencing Ava Miller she was not benched in SU game, I didn’t watch the Omaha game but NDSU game she got in foul trouble early in that game and then sat out major minutes in second half with four fouls and then when she entered game picked up her fifth foul. I don’t know for Omaha if was going with your experienced players in tournament or she didn’t match or filt ior he chose to not play her more minutes. Also was she hurt I don’t know but I am not going to speculate but she had played significant minutes all season this is not productive criticism unless you have definite facts. i see we’re looking for assistant coach so must have assistant coach that has left because there was opening posted march 19. I am curious to has left.

I don’t know what’s going on here but this forum is into something that needs to be careful about here because some serious accusations are being made here by supposedly by parents here and reputations and people careers are going to be effected.This seems wrong place for this being discussed if parents have this concern and if I was parent I would have been discussing this with administration not public forum site. Second this whole thread here smells that something is very wrong here and we are only getting story here that somebody has grievance but who are actual parties involved here why is this being even discussed here. I maybe wrong here but where this line of talk smells something out of place here.

The conferences like the Summit have become independent minor leagues of division I basketball players know it and coaches know it now agents feeding of this system really know it. This system is going to blow up with major scandal coming especially with sports betting. There is going to number of schools where Federal government descend down where everyone is going get caught up sports scandal where players, agents, coaches, school administration and organized crime is involved resulting in felony charges. Results will be loss of public support and media backing away from college sports. Presently nobody is moving with any urgency at political level or from the colleges. If my experience from being around long time examples will be set against lower mid majors because they will not have resources to fight this and they will be examples for the top teams to clean this up or face similar punishments. I know we need to get more involved with our NIL support but we need to be very careful putting necessary safeguards so we don’t get caught up in this coming scandal it’s not if this going to happen just matter time when this happens. What is happening now if this was done back 70s and 80s there would have been prosecutions already happening.