OopsSioux

I'd like to know if Chavez researched past and present players to get an idea of what was actually going on. This feels like the easy way out and I'll need to see consistent results, like three successful and successive seasons, to change my mind.

I think the most important part of being a head coach is the ability to motivate whomever you have on your roster and your staff as well. A team with moderate talent that is ready to believe they can perform better is often the team that does perform well. Getting the most out of your guys is a true testament to your ability. Identifying weaknesses and strengths and scheming to them is another important trait.

Bottom line I'm happy to see they're moving on from Berry. Watching the teams of the last few years has been pretty uninspiring. The last game of the year was a perfect example and was status quo. It truly feels like a ton of the mistakes that were still being made at the end of the season were absolutely correctable through coaching. To note: I think the talent pool of this year's UND team was fine. Certainly not the best but they should have been better. No look passes seemingly normal in your own end , lackadaisical breakouts, the worst penalty kill I've ever seen by UND, poor goaltending (not in the final game.). Just overall the grit Berry was talking about was awful and not there. Haks teams even when less talented still always developed some kind of an identity through the season and generally played much better. These few years remind me Lucia's tenure at the goofs.

Fair statement as long as the University doesn't use the womens accolades as its own. You know like when I received pamphlets about the university stating stats like the number of olympians which included those women. UND is so proud of these ladies. Yeah right. Let the ladies sue all they want. They win they win. They lose they lose. It's not like they owe the University a damned thing.