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Ok - I re-read your year end post. To quote it " UND has had one NCAA win since 2016, and the win was against AIC. Bruce Ciskie said it best, hockey is about getting the right bounce and having a little luck. Recently, luck has yet to be on UND's side." So your take seems to be that we are the unluckiest team in college hockey and Denver is the luckiest. It must have been just bad luck that UND seemingly didn't come out of the locker room for about 5 minutes in the third against Michigan. Although it's hard to quantify, good coaches have their team ready to play a full 60 minutes in important games. If it were one or two years I might buy the luck excuse but this run indicates something else is going on. And this is unacceptable at UND. The failure to capitalize on our Natty in recruiting the next couple of years set the trend. Remember when we would make fun of the Gophers for tournament chokes? Well, that's us now.

Assistant to the Sr. VP.

If this was his only season I would agree 1000% - However since 2016 with Hak's team Berry's team has won only 1 - count em - 1 regional game. Time to get things done or find someone who can.

Agree - and the second rule of holes - when you stop digging you are still in a hole.

It seems live everyone in the known universe knows this except Bubba. I can't imagine what goes on in his stubborn head.

Bubba has some serious deficiencies in recruiting but his game and player management is off the charts bad.

Not to worry - Bubba is evaluating everything - like he does every year.

Wow - another good week of prep.

In my opinion this is partially true - In my opinion the GOBC is not an organized entity with meetings etc. - more of a loose group of Bubba's and his brother's contemporaries and family - many older athletes who played with his brother and some older businessmen who were big Sioux boosters pushed for his hire and whose opinion at the time had influence with the Athletic Department. I was personally lobbied a couple of times by some I knew whose pitch was "he bleeds Sioux Green". How he keeps his job is a mystery known only the Chaves - whose tenure is a disaster. Not naming names as what they did was their right to do and totally within bounds and was nothing sinister. However the results speak for themselves and it looks like they are very reluctant to call for his firing.

Ok, we'll go with that - I was going to correct my post to say no changes in results but that wouldn't be true either - results are getting worse. If Hockey Bubs can't parlay our hockey facilities into Frozen 4 teams I don't think Football Bubba will improve his program one bit. It's all about the product on the field or in the rink.

And yet here we are with no changes in sight.

Yes - this is exactly the problem with no solution in sight.

Exactly this - when Karl came on staff full time I thought wow - this will take our goalie recruitment and development to the next level and lead us to success - but no - it's portal goalie after portal goalie. Not sure how Berry's team recruiting and development went off the rails but it started right after our Natty in 2016. We have had some good talent but development is lacking and for some reason Berry can't field a team that consistently plays for a full 60 - almost a trademark of his teams.

Agree that there are many bigger problems than Simon - My biggest concern at QB is Bubba's stubborn refusal to give any other QB not just some meaningful minutes but any minutes at all. I wonder why after seeing this any top QB recruit would want to come here. Coaching malpractice from a stubborn old coach who is unbelievably set in his ways.

For someone who has been around football as long as Bubba has, his incompetence as a game manager is just stunning.