Schmidt was the right man. Experience.
The UND connection is important to our program, but the UND connection was also important because it was the link to get him.
How many current FBS coordinstors applied??? Guessing 1. Eric Schmidt.
Coached in the FBS National Championship game last year. With Kaylen Deboer. He has had a view from the top of the next level up.
When Bohl got the State School of Fertilzers and Herbicides rocking when the campus still looked like an Army base without a fence around it - he had connections that brought in FBS assistants like WR coaches from UCLA. Former players at SU said that was huge.
This gives us a chance to have that FBS pipeline of coaches and portal players.
If Eric is a Stiegelmeir and makes it a career and brings us to national prominence, awesome.
If he gets hot and goes on to make millions, even better.
And none of this happens without the good job Bubba did getting this all going, making the playoffs several times, making us a consistent top 25 program, and winning 2 conference titles. Cant and wont convince me otherwise.
And all of the haters on here were free to submit their resume at any time during this search or Bubbas tenure. Thought so.