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The new addition is 6'2", 195 Miguel Cerriteno from Feather River College. Per SFI, he had an offer from Sac. St., and serious interest from Hawaii and Eastern Michigan.

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but does anybody know whether Johannesson's (sp?) dad is from Edinburg? There was a guy with the same name who was a high school basketball teammate of Scott Guldseth. Just curious.

Klabo has committed to UND per Wayne Nelson.

I think the limit is 30 per year, not including walk-ons. This is from bylaw 15.5.6.2 of the NCAA division I manual.

UND had several excellent Canadian players in the 1990's, such as Tim Prinsen, Kevin Robson, Greg Lotysz, Scott Schultz, Mike Juhasz and Dwayne Ell, among others. For whatever reason, the pipeline has seemingly dried up in recent years.

That's the thing I just can't understand. Some have offered excuses for Muss, but it's the current state of the OL, and really the state of the OL the past few years, that's the most compelling argument as to why he had to go. There's just no good excuse for the total rebuilding job he left considering this is his alleged area of expertise.

So right now UND has nine OL, and of that group one is a senior who has been a NG prior to this spring, three are redshirt freshmen who have not played a down yet, and another is coming off an entire season lost to very serious illness. Count me as unsurprised that things are not looking good right now. And as much as I realize it doesn't help matters to do so, I am having a hard time not being ticked off at the previous regime for leaving the cupboard this bare.

Minot St. didn't take long to hire a new coach: http://coachingsearc...-State-28223705 Interestingly, Hughes had just accepted the head coaching job at Southern Virginia last month.

The Coleman signing is now official: http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&ATCLID=209469290

I'm sure she's a nice player, but with Szabla having three more years, Dyer and Knox each having two more years and Strand and Sawatzke already having signed last fall, I don't think UND was in the market for another guard.

I'll answer my own question regarding what would be the minimum acceptable record for 2014-15--I believe the minimum number of wins is around 12. I base that on the belief that Jones can probably afford to take a small step back from the 16-17 and 17-17 records of the past two years (considering the large turnover of the roster), but he probably doesn't have sufficient equity to survive a big step back.

I was very surprised to hear that the difference in pay between the Mankato and Minot jobs is only something like $13k. I would have assumed it was significantly more than that. Anybody think Hedberg might give Mussman a call?

Not to beat a dead horse too much, but my feeling from the start was that Kelley probably had the authority to just exempt the job from most of the UND-specific procedures, and the process from start to finish could have been done in about three weeks.

I'm just curious what people would consider the absolute minimum acceptable season record for 2014-15? I'm not really all that interested in cutting Jones too much slack for a situation largely of his own creation, i.e. losing roughly 80% of the team's scoring, but that's just my opinion. Does he at least need to approach .500, or is something less than that acceptable in a rebuilding season?

Rick Hedberg said today that he hopes to have a replacement named within 10-14 days. I guess Minot State's internal policies must be a bit less restrictive than UND's.

This brings up a pretty interesting question with regard to Keen's contract. Can he simply be re-assigned to a coordinator, or does his contract require that he be head coach? EDIT: Some are saying Keen was still considered an interim coach in 2013. Not sure I've ever heard of somebody being an interim coach for two full seasons before.

He's under contract through 2016-17. He got an extension after the 2012-13 season: http://collegebasketball.ap.org/article/und-extends-contract-mens-basketball-coach

NDSU thought they were getting an up and coming assistant from a big-time program the last time around, too. So yes, there's a lot of risk involved here. I'm just glad that in terms of women's basketball, UND is presently in a position of pretty much knowing what they have, and can give a pay raise based upon merit rather than a leap of faith.

So are you saying that the UxD's were stupid to start their women's basketball coaches in the $110k to $120k range, and then reward them AFTER they succeed? At least Johnston has earned his $180k/year at SDSU by having a long history of success. I could maybe see paying that kind of money for a coach with an actual track record of success as a head coach. But given Dorn's recent track record, and Walseth's lack of head coaching experience, we'll see whether it was a good move or not in the next few years. She's got a lot of work to do.

Exactly. I suspect there's fear of a lawsuit, but between that incident and a couple of terrible hires, there are plenty of non-discriminatory reasons to justify her ouster.

I wonder if Broderick Powell has any interest in getting into college coaching? He's certainly got twin cities ties.

While I agree that Jones is not going to be fired based upon the last two season, he doesn't have a winning record during that timeframe. UND is 33-34 in the past two years.

I'm kind of amazed Dorn is still employed. I'll bet Taylor can't wait until she retires.

You're comparing one game's attendance to a whole season. Not exactly apples to apples. And if UND only pays "crumbs" but still has successful women's basketball and volleyball programs, what's NDSU's excuse?

$150k per year for a program that drew a whopping 721 people per game last year? I wonder if Dorn has complete autonomy to hire and determine salaries, or whether Taylor actually approved this?