MNHawk

If we count the COVID year, Bubba is 83-71 and 1-6 in the playoffs in his head coaching career across two different schools. How long do I have to have faith? He’s at 154 career games. Once he gets to 300 career games can I start judging him based on his mediocre results and setting expectations accordingly?

If you’re curious how a DeBoer tenure would have looked like at UND, you should take a look at what Troy Taylor’s tenure at Sacramento State looked like. That’s the best comparison in my opinion. DeBoer wouldn’t have been here for a decade, but he would have taken a struggling program and quickly built one of the best FCS teams in the country.

Has Landry called plays before? I assumed that Caruso was the play caller at UST. They are definitely running the same Caruso offense that they ran in the D3 days.

Probably super seniors with COVID years that are considering returning or transferring , and potentially the all-MVFC 1st team LB who is a sophomore.

After seeing their offenses over the past couple years, I’d contact the Idaho OC long before I reached out to the UND OC.

Spence Nowinsky jumps off the page to me. Successful MAC DC with lots of ties to the midwest based off his coaching history. Mankato grad.

As a lifelong UND fan, over the last couple seasons I’ve started to watch less and less. I watch the first couple of games until it becomes clear that we are mediocre again, and then I start to scoreboard watch on my phone and spend my Saturdays doing something else. This program is just not really interesting at all right now, and I think the fan base is shrinking as a result. If I had to guess, I’ll watch even less in 2024.

7-4 with a first round exit. Never would have guessed that before the season.

If we do go through a coaching search, I would love to see us draw from a broader pool of candidates than just guys with UND ties. Jeff Thorne and Spence Nowinsky come to mind as seemingly good coaches with successful track records and are familiar with the Midwest. No idea how interested they would be, but hopefully we consider those types of candidates.

Gotta stay aggressive offensively even with the lead. Can’t get conservative in the second half. Make Freund watch some film of the Richmond game a few years back as a cautionary tale lol.

I don’t think anyone should be excited to see a coordinator step away in mid February. Tough time to find a new coach, many guys that were available after the season have already found new gigs. My uneducated guess is that we will promote from within.

Let’s set some expectations for next year so no one can say we are moving goalposts throughout 2023. What would Bubba have to do in 2023 in order for you to be happy to keep him for 2024? Make the playoffs? Top 8 seed? Quarterfinal appearance? I would need to see a quarterfinal appearance or a second round appearance+a win over NDSU in order to feel like we are moving the program forward and be happy keeping Bubba for 24.

Is there any reason to believe that this is a possibility?

I 100% agree that he won’t be going anywhere for what it’s worth.

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but given all the coaching talk: I just saw that WMU is letting go of their head coach. I wonder if some FCS programs won’t look at Jeff Thorne. You have to think he would be a great hire for a lot of Midwest schools.