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That sounds far more likely.

If you were a Bemidji fan, would you consider it exciting if you lost your coach?

Gotta be tough when many could be lame duck coaches.

I guess these are the players they have recruited, and outside of going into the game themselves, I don't know what else you can do as coach. Like I said before, obviously NHL teams have been poor in their assessments if these guys don't have basic skills. I suspect it is more of a need to bear down, and if these guys don't have the self motivation and competitive nature to take this upon themselves, maybe their scholarships need to be looked at. Maybe this is our chance as fans to single out the guys that have made NIL money that are under performing and give them the reality of what it is like to play for money and the expectation that goes with it.

Can't remember, was there a push from the players for Joel Schwenzfeier as defensive coordinator? Seems to me there was a push recently from players for an internal hire at some position.

Let's face it, most of those years they were coming off league titles and they were fat and happy, so instead of tuna on toast, chicken salad on rye untoasted.

Isn’t that what we did with women’s basketball?

How old is Baldwin? Is the next destination the grave? Not super excited that Chaves will be making this hire.

The last Frozen Faceoff at the “X” would be a good one to get us in the tournament if the pairwise hill is too high to climb.

Is he a USD alum? Just curious why he would want to wait for that position, as UND has a lot to offer with the facilities coming on board, and Grand Forks vs. Vermillion.

Hopefully they can still turn around this season, but if they don’t, after the championship year they will have made the tourney 5 times with a single win against AIC, and missed the tourney 4 times. (Giving credit for a tourney in Covid year). A little better than 50% wouldn’t be horrible if you took advantage a few times. Not making that run has opened up the recruiting of top players to numerous more teams.

Well apparently now he can nap all he wants in his new position. If we created another position like the federal government does, I suppose we know who they expect will pay for that.

All I know is that Minnesota held on to Don Lucia to the point where they couldn’t beat another team in Minnesota, and now they look on pace to being in contention for a title for the 5th straight year.

How about Garrett Raboin. Better record than us in year 2, and his teams actually have a work ethic culture.

A lot of firsts with Brad Berry, and very few are good.

Apparently Berry should have given Blake his whole salary as NIL money so we can score some goals. Like I said, why would Blake or anyone hang around when we aren’t even sniffing a win in the NCAA tourney, much less a title. I hope he proves me wrong, and they get their act together.

To be truthful, I really did expect them to lose, which is something I don’t think I’ve ever expected before against Bemidji. Doesn’t make it any less frustrating, but coming into the year knowing that the Regional was in Fargo, and Berry’s history in being spectators at those, I worried we might experience some frustration. Still not too late, but getting late fast, and winning the automatic bid is looking more like the path they may need to take, unless they get really hot like Hakstol’s teams did the second half. Not being consistent from period to period much less being consistent for a long stretch of games doesn’t inspire that confidence, but who knows.

I would say that over half the team’s in the country have a better work ethic than UND’s culture under Berry. How many times do they wait until they are behind the 8-ball before they start playing? The fact that you are constantly being beat, or taken to the brink by teams that don’t have half your talent or recruiting advantage, proves that the work ethic is lacking. Of course after the season is over, we can raid the best players from these less talented teams, then watch those players lose their touch or work ethic that got them to live the pampered life. The worst part is that thanks to Berry we will get to watch these less talented teams take it to us for the foreseeable future because Berry wants to be the nice guy to these programs, nevermind the fact that it is often brutal hockey to watch.

I think that is where not making the Frozen Four sometimes comes into play. If you are so close you can taste it, sometimes guys come back, or talk to each other about whether staying might put you over the top. Not getting even solitary wins in the NCAA tournament, or missing altogether, doesn’t foster that confidence that you are close to an NCAA title. They need to get it back to where UND is in the mix of teams that can win it all year in and year out, which will help in recruiting as well.

Blake with his 7th goal and game winner versus the Rangers.

How many people think that Bubba will be proactive taking advantage of these changes? My bet is that every other college will be on top of this change, and that Bubba will start reacting after all the programs are taking advantage of it, that is if he can do it between naps.

Any smart coach knows that developing depth is a huge factor in whether you are going to be a championship caliber football team. As such, you take every opportunity you can to develop that depth. It is either a complete fail in not doing so, or if the players are so bad that they don't even dare put them on the field, then it is a bigger failure in recruiting in that you don't even have guys to develop.

Regardless of what people think of Romfo, it is absolute malpractice to not get your other younger quarterbacks any playing time, especially when there was plenty of opportunity. Sleeping in team meetings and not getting others playing time are reasons for termination, especially when the team absolutely collapses. This team definitely took on the personality of their coach -- insecure and uninspiring.

The nice thing for Bubba is that he can now nap the whole offseason, because there is no reason for him to put in any more effort recruiting. If you are lazy in team meetings, you are lazy on the recruiting trail too. It shows by the lack of difference makers he has recruited, even with the improved facilities.

Not happy at all with the lack of postseason success, but that is a far cry from “underachieving like no other”. My problem is that the teams we have major problems with are teams that are hard to play against. I would argue that we are getting soft and aren’t able to fight through the adversity. It seems we are becoming more of the gophers of old and win when our power play propels us. If we get behind, or need to win the five on five battle, we aren’t near as dominant as we used to be. That needs to change fast, but unfortunately three of the guys that are tough to play against and give us the grit, in Berg, Jammer, and Zmolek are sidelined.