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How much of their football did you follow this year??

What type of staff the new coach can assemble and what excitement they can bring to drive NIL are more important to me than any head coaching experience. Experience with how FBS schools are doing it weighs heavier to me than how Bemidji and Mankato are doing it.

lol. You will support until the first loss.

You keep with this argument but statistically they were not worse than the year before he got there and they lost 10 starters on defense along with a portion of the two deep. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not and there are plenty of ways to make the stats tell any story you want but it’s not like he inherited an above average defense and ran it into the ground. He inherited no experience, had to rebuild it and performed as well as expected in one year. Bigger indicator of his abilities for me is a top 5 coach in the country trusted his abilities enough to want to retain him on his staff when moving to the most storied program in college football.

I don’t think you released them. Only hurts you the next time around.

Agreed

If the “inbreeding” has the confidence and swagger of a Dale Lennon as a head coach I have zero problems with it. I guess the question I am asking in an interview is how are you building your staff.

When arguably the best coach in college football wants you to go from Fresno State to Washington to Alabama you are doing something right regardless of what your 2013 stats say

Lots of good names thrown out there. I’ll get behind any of them but if I had to choose I’m going with Schmidt.

Did UNDs offense average more PPG than Idaho this past season?

Also for what it’s worth and I know I posted this before, Caruso wanted to hire Freuchte as his OC at St. Thomas last year before UND grabbed him. Had Landry not flipped to FU that would likely have been the staff at St. Thomas. Maybe that doesn’t make the interim title as awkward. Just spitballing a little more, not saying he is the guy.

If Kelly mentioned Joe Woodley today he is likely in the conversation.

I like him. His intensity is noticeable. Only concern I have is not knowing full story on QB situation. In some of those games a change was needed and not made. Could be a learning curve for him as well

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…..