[Any word on the volleyball coach?]

The title kind of says it all, anyone heard anything about the hiring of the new coach? If nothing else, are interviews scheduled? Who's applied?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Shelly Francis?]

I assume only those very close to the volleyball program can answer this, and evidently none of them are regulars on this board.

I *heard* she switched to a tech school in Bemidji. Playing time would not have been an issue so I'm guessing it was just a school/career type decision. If so, good for her. Playing is nice but getting prepared for something you're going to do the rest of your life is even better.

What I heard, take it for what's it's worth.

[Bruggeman resigns]

Also have to say I am surprised at this selection - especially someone so young to be head coach. Either she has an inordinate amount of maturity, intellect, recruiting capability, and leadership skill for her age, or Buning/Ralston made a major mistake. Katy's resume would seem to indicate the former. With Betty Ralston being a former DI volleyball coach, I would expect Ralston to do a lot of mentoring.

Katy will do an excellent job but I also think Jason would have done an excellent job as well. As far as Katy's experience the Moorhead head coach had a series of personal issues that kept her away from her team for an extended period of time over several seasons so Katy basically ran the show for much of the last several years. She will have a great rapport with the players and she's very personable which should really help with the recruiting. Give her a chance, I think she'll do well. And she's a very likable person if you get a chance to meet her so it's not hard to see how she could impress the selection committee.

And for what UND pays the volleyball coach alot of D1 assistant coaches make more where they're at.

UND should be good this season if everyone comes back. Lots of young talent, similar to 3-4 years ago with Cahill, Welter, Tuve, ... getting lots of playing time early and then getting some success.

Of course your milage may vary

[Zaundra Bina out at NDSU Volleyball]

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I guess I thought ...

[Zaundra Bina out at NDSU Volleyball]

Story I'm getting is she would have been fired the day after she resigned - like you needed to be told that. I'm also hearing it was parental pressure, mostly from a setter's parents and a hitter-turned-setter's parents. If you know the program you can do the math. Take this for what's it's worth but my source is in REAL tight with the program.

Zaundra could be intense but she ran a good program. Thought she was very classy when UND finally beat the Bison at the Hyslop although the same couldn't be said for her assitant at that time. I think NDSU did her next school a favor.