HockeyHawk

How much are they paying Berry, Bubba, and Mal out to not coach at UND?

Possibly but the last few years have been rough, now we need to sit back and expect a couple more tough years on the hope that after that maybe basketball will be better? I don’t see anything within this athletic department that gives me hope changes in coaching will help. None of Chaves hires have been good. If we are going to have a rough few years Armacost needs to find a leader that can energize the entire athletic department and create some excitement across the board.

Agreed. With all of this going on most Presidents would have removed the AD by now.

It’s time. Don’t let Chaves ruin this department anymore and let a new leader come in to right the ship.

How does he not?

With all that coaches being fired when is Chaves being dumped? I don’t see how an athletic director can survive this unless he has some dirt on the president.

Can we really trust this administration to handle anything properly at this point?

Yeah it sounds like he supported the athletes during the title IX complaint and Chaves didn’t like that. When this many programs are failing on campus though there must be something going on in the department that is causing everyone to be falling short.

Now let's get rid of Chaves and start anew.

Armacost should be the one handling this. Chaves has allowed the department to rot and it is his running of the show that has led to UND athletics significantly underperforming. The AD shouldn’t be allowed to try and bail himself out of this and should go as well (or even before) as these coaches.

The herald reporters areUND athletics boot lickers and do this so they keep access to athletics coaches. They’re not bearers of truth by any means I don’t recall the last time the herald published an article that was against the interest of und athletics

Monday morning 9am Armacost announces a change in leadership for the hockey program and the athletic department. Or is this wishful thinking?

Right now the only reasons to come play hockey at UND are the best arena in the nation along with the attendances, and the great locker room and weight room. It’s not to because you’re competing for a Natty.

Chaves won’t say anything. His entire tenure he has had no plan or backbone from what it seems like. What was his plan from the beginning? Why are all the sports struggling? i have said this before I don’t think every coach at UND is bad. I think a bad athletic department is bringing the coaching down.

My understanding is that Albrecht paid for the entire project Chaves gets to prance around and pretend he did something to get this done but in reality if the current head softball coach is to be believed then this was not achieved with significant help from athletic administration.

I would substitute’a lot of work’ for ‘any athletic with a donor with this level of commitment’ would work out how to do this

Chaves created this mess with the coaches he should be the one who takes the fall. I don’t know how he survived the Bubba contract debacle.

Albrecht wanted his daughter to play in a quality facility for her last year. UND didn’t approach him, he approached them. All UND had to do was meet his deadline for the facility and he was paying. UND athletics like to give themselves credit for this almost to a sickening extent. This was someone who came in and spent their own money so their daughter could have a last year in a better facility. The athletic department will take credit as usual when they’ve don’t next to nothing.

Albrecht told UND that if the project wasn’t completed by last fall the funding would be pulled so they had to get it done in a timely manner since he basically paid for the whole thing. UND did not have to do much.

The facility had everything to do with the donor and their pushing it through I know Stevens has said this for his part. The administration giving themselves credit for the work of a donor though is UND athletics through and through taking credit for the work of others.

I’m surprised that Stevens has made it even this far. He has been pretty vocal that the administrative don’t support softball and there are title 9 issues, and that Chaves has nothing to do with the new facility he actually had all the influence. Maybe calling Chaves out is another way to an extension.

Exactly

If only Berry and his players were angry losers maybe they would win more games.

With all the coaching contracts about to expire in the same year as the athletic director 2026 could be a year to right the ship all around. But I do still wonder if the coaching is really that bad all over or is it the way the athletic director runs the department.

The whole department has gone down hill since Chaves arrived. You can point fingers at a program or two, but when this is across the board and every program stinks this is a leadership issue from the director.