Coach4Life

Omaha, without football, has NIL $$$ for hoops.

I agree with this 100%. The 1st guardrail has to be eliminating the spring portal for football. FCS programs get hammered in mid April when FBS schools suddenly need a player; it's not fair and should be stopped.

Hutter isn't using NIL $$$ to get these recruits and no one knows for sure that any of them can play. He has 8 roster spots to fill and, in WBB, NIL is less of a thing than on the men's side.

The younger sister is on the 25-26 roster for ASU, Hanna is not, so maybe sis is staying put

I admire the positivity in this forum; it's clear that UND hockey is a priority for many people. However, the guy we chose has been a part of the "culture" for 19 years, he's as much a part of the culture as Bubba was. If he felt this was out of whack at Christmas time, why wasn't something done? If we weren't "talented" enough, who's on the hook for finding players? I get it, there is always a new/fresh start for the program when we hire a new head coach, let's hope the tides turn. But, what did we change, really?

They cannot go to battle with the 5 on this list plus Kraft, King, and Bothun. There has to be legitimate size coming to this roster before the fall of 2025.

Didn't seem to help UND hockey. In sports like basketball and hockey, losing 5-8 guys every year is hard to sustain winning. SDSU men dealt with it this year and NDSU and UND are dealing with annually. In the last 2 years, NIL has put 3 UND players in Cal (ACC), Washington (Big 10), and now South Carolina (SEC). Figuring out how to sustain and kind of success when an average program losing 3 guys to schools like this is really hard. I'm not sure anyone is Summit has it figured out.

Big corporations, not a lot. A pool of NHL players, current and alums who are worth millions of dollars, we have a lot. Time to give back

The point of firing coaches used to be about making players uncomfortable. Dane's hiring keeps them feeling good about who they are, are we really better? I'd prefer a team that hasn't seen the frozen 4 in 9 or 10 years play uncomfortable; we'll see.

The head coach hurt the culture but his Asst coach helped the culture??? That's insane, but whatever.

Correct

Jackson Kuntz, 39 points over 4 years. Even more underwhelming

Berry sucked but his assistants were good enough to be the head coach? I would never understand that logic

So the problem was the head coach??? This is the 2nd laziest hire of the week for our A.D. This makes Berry the problem and Dane was his Asst coach for every year; so dumb

You cannot compare recruiting at Mayville St to what is done at UND. Rural ND/Minn. has kids everywhere that can play NAIA basketball. UND can maybe find 1 or 2 players in state that are DI players. When you get to Minnesota, DI, DII, and DIII schools exist everywhere and the competition for recruiting is nuts. UND needs to be in both states as well all states between Illinois to Colorado recruiting. Just my 2 cents but recruiting is hard 🙂

No

I would think so. Last year of his deal, why not?

SDSU doesn't take transfers. Coach commits to his recruits and hopes they reciprocate. It's worked very well for him, obviously.

I don't see this hire coming from within. You are paying a guy $439,000 to NOT coach and you're hiring one of his asst coaches because he'll do it differently? That makes xero sense; just pay Brad for 1 more year and then move on.

He took a redshirt year, didn't love the school, who knew academics were emphasized at Cal? 😉