homer

His WR recruiting is actually much more impressive. lines were aweful and defenses were average at best. If defense is a knock on Schmidt it certainly is a huge knock on Baldwin. Line okay was kind of non existent. Game was simply score more points which he was very good at in wide open west coast football. I’ll give the benefit if Vigen can adjust to the BigSky a coach like Baldwin could likely adjust to MVFC.

I imagine the TV graphic they do with QBs where they don’t show the picture or names and just show stats. They do that with Schmidt’s coaching experiences he’s gained since leaving UND and it’s pretty impressive. Couple that with DeBoer wanting him to go with to Alabama but Eric wanting DC experience and you have a coach that is hungry to move around. The safe play would have been stay hitched to DeBoer and make your money being a special teams coordinator….and then maybe get promoted a few years later if a DC ever moves on and potentially a HC years later. Different path but with any success as a FCS HC same outcome. No idea of his interest and some solid other names have been discussed but I’m in on Eric if they can do it quickly and the current OC staying on after a year of getting his feet wet at this level. I’ve had the chance to meet him and really was impressed with his intensity as a coach. Would look forward to what year 2 would look like.

If you are cutting ties with a coach….why keep him around. Little value in that other than any optics.

Hopefully UND did their homework and follows that example. The only thing that slowed that down even a little was the players wanting Roehl. The booster $$$ was all in on Polasek and the AD really didn’t have any say. Regardless of what some on this board will tell you the boosters even call the shots at places other than Grand Forks.

His defenses at EWU were maybe worse than ours this year. Guy could recruit some QBs though.

They did it with good coaching which further backs my point. Plenty of others that have hired a new coach and not improved at all.

Bubba took over a program that was a train wreck. Your numbers are accurate but don’t tell the entire story. He certainly left it much better than he found it and that takes good coaching. On field performance, fan engagement and facilities are way better for an incoming coach. Look at other schools in college football that have been dumpster fires and new coaches cannot fix the problem.

No

I thought Bubba was solely the reason for poor defense and coordinators have no responsibility.

Not accurate

Schmidt left and made some real connections while gone. To be part of Deboer’s staff and those relationships built make it pretty easy for me to look past his time here. I’m not ruling him out. Likely some other intriguing options as well. Great to be making this hire with the facilities in place. Guys at rival MVFC schools can stay there.

Right…..

He doesn’t know anything.

Lol

If it happens expect the replacement to be named 5 days later. Has to happen quick so there could be discussions going on further behind the scenes IF things have moved forward with Bubba.