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…and how many of those guys hate UND, and would love to see them flounder in the tournament for another decade. Do they think UND being tied or behind teams like Bemidji, Air Force, St. Cloud, and the rest of the teams on this list is what UND fans should expect? Probably, because they hate us. The fact that all these guys are backing Berry up, while they absolutely hated Hakstol tells you all you need to know.

The same group probably said the same thing about Lucia, Gasparini, Berenson, and probably York feeling the pressure. What happened to those programs that had become irrelevant after the changes? I would argue that becoming irrelevant in the age of NIL would be far more detrimental than people on the fringe looking from the outside and not seeing the actual culture change that has happened. When you aren’t winning and you have major locker room issues on two separate occasions, you have to look a little deeper.

List the National Championship coaches that began their career as an Associate or assistant at a blue blood.

Was this to save face if their guy doesn’t pan out? …and shouldn’t a lot of this vetting happened before you have to buy out a coaches contract?

So what does Schlossman have to say about UND falling from being in the top six attractive jobs to not getting a ton of interest. This fall all happened under his guy Berry.

About what?

O.k. So how has he improved Michigan? What did he do as an assistant at Harvard? Don’t remember Harvard winning anything. Besides, since UND isn’t even being considered by top recruits, shouldn’t we have a coach that can do more with less? Regardless I will be looking to see Rassey taking over a blue blood in the next year or two.

Was that dependent on hiring Jax, or just firing Berry?

You mean like the pretended expertise of an AD that has it’s sports programs all failing and needing wholesale coaching changes?

Yes, just enough time to where the Kalen DeBoer type option will have taken a position at a major school, thus leading UND to take the safe bet of one of the assistants at the time.

So the person that hated Hak, wanted Chaves to be the AD, wanted Schweigert over DeBoer, and was all about Berry initially, now wants Jackson. Too lazy to look back on how you felt about Brewster. Well, with that history I am sure things will work out smoothly, or sometime within the first year expect you to be opening the Fire Jax thread!

All I know is that if it is Jackson, he better hit the ground running because he has been part of the structure, so the fanbase isn’t going to give him a grace period like they would someone new to the program, regardless of who they lose this offseason.

I thought that the divided locker room had people leaving because of Berry.

The schedule is about to get easier actually, as we probably aren’t considered a blue blood anymore. But you are right, better get our house in order for the changing landscape or we will definitely get left behind in a big way.

The zillion of Fire Berry threads and such wasn’t enough for him to realize dissatisfaction was rampant. When you have ex teammates and players of his talking about changes needing to be made, it shouldn’t be shocking. Maybe he would have expected a heads up, but he had to have felt pressure going into this past year. He also was expecting the season to last longer, even though the rest of us saw which way the wind was blowing. The fact that the locker room was a side show like it was in a few years back, and that falls on the coach.

Are we playing Augustana in exhibition next year? Could be a good time to fire up the Fire thread.

Kind of the run up of picking the new nickname with the possibility of distinguishing ourselves with something creative — instead Fighting Hawks. UND has a history of safe decisions, while NDSU continues a run of dominance.

Especially, if the new guy has the ability and passion to reach new heights for NIL, which reportedly Raboin would be good at. Jackson will be more of the same old school hockey and thinking, and no doubt will sign a lifetime contract for UND to play Bemidji State. Would love to know how he felt about Montgomery playing in place of Croal, Komzak and Littler. Being the leader of the penalty kill, I would think he should have some pull to get Croal in the lineup, which makes me think he was good with Montgomery. Who recruited Monty to begin with, and how did we get the wrong one.

So Dane isn't part of the culture that all of us have witnessed where half the team plays when they are forced to? He is on the bench to, and you would think would be able to light a fire in the team. Gino was 33ish when he took over. Why not start fresh with someone who has that young enthusiasm. When you are with a company or team for 20+ years, you lose some of that passion.

If that's the case, to me it just means once again that they are just like the federal government and throw money around wildly, then ask for more, while continuing down the same path.

There will be a lot of people out at that point.

But he's from California, and we know that they have the reputation for being very humble.

..and like I said before, swept CC at Robson, and Omaha at Baxter, with as was stated "a Start-Up" program. What are we, 1-5 in our last 6 with CC?

From what some said, he was responsible for getting Cooley and Nies to Minnesota.

Is Denver really going to promote an assistant coach that they originally hired basically right out of college without any other experience? If you're good, you're good. Seems like he impressed a lot of people at Minnesota and St. Cloud. Who is your choice?