JacksonW

Good analysis- sometimes the other team makes good offensive plays/shots. I have best friend who played defense for NDak decades ago, who I go to or watch games occasionally and still coaches. He is not impressed with the defenseman progress at all. I wonder if Simpson is ready to coach at this level with no experience. He may turn out to be a great coach down the road. Coaching like any profession usually improves with experience. He may even be head coach material in a few years, but I think his inexperience along with defenseman’s inexperience is what is the main issue this year. Keep waiting for the light bulb to turn on for freshman but this generally not a league for freshman D to flourish

What was 22 doing?

His aggressiveness takes him out of position too often

Nobody seems to understand that the defenseman are young and more skilled than defensive. The miss Zmolek ALOT

No very accurate shot

Because a center needs to be strong in own end

Says Putin every day

Executive Director of Recruiting every program of reasonable size that wants to retain relevant will need one of these- it’s become much more complex in the new world. Glad Schmidt makes sure he has someone like this on his staff from day 1

Spring portal is when the bigger schools players start to realize that they are passed up on depth chart by younger players and/or NIL funds aren’t what they were expecting. Big programs are becoming more analytical and similar to NFL teams in allocating payroll(NIL). For example they may have 12% budget for DT and have two studs that will get lions share of that which leaves 5th best DT with almost nothing and looking for new home.

Supposedly he had great relationship with OC at SDSU who was let go half way thru season. New OC brought in new QB’s

Somebody still working week between now and 31st?

He graduated HS in 2018. Was at BYU then JC hasn’t played much since JC. Probably one of the getting down to 105 players

Also played for powerhouse program in DFW area

Of course the new OC wasn’t as concerned about winning in his new job as internet experts who are attending every practice and watching hours of video every week. He wanted a feel good story to be his legacy as an ambitious OC instead.

Denver is the type of team where you really can’t hide that you are missing a couple of your better players

Which is an analytic that every hockey coach pays attention to when it’s available.

1:45 minute drive from Manhattan

They have done a great job finding older recruits that bigger programs looked at and passed 2 years prior. Also pretty close to major population centers

The arena and history are huge help in recruiting, but not enough to win at historically high levels. No reason not to win once a decade or so. I have been heavily involved in the junior hockey world and definitely noticed the change in where high end players are coming from and what they are looking for as far as college life

Things change, days of winning with small town Canadian and small town northern Minnesota players are a thing of the past

Location shift, programs that are thriving are in population centers, Denver, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, etc. Kids are coming from cities and like similar environments when attending college.

As a past billet of USHL players(some who played in NHL), most(not all)kids now come from larger metro areas and desire amenities that they grew up with, the ones that went elsewhere all said weather and small town were primarily reasons for not considering or picking UND. Not staff or amenities. The days of high end recruits from Northern Minnesota and small town Canada are changing to any metro with NHL team

Do some homework about what is being sent to Ukraine

Their best recruiter in the past is now head coach at Augustana, they will be good in a few years because of his evaluation and recruiting skills

at this point that most think your opinions are suspect and repetitive but you continue to teach all the less knowledgeable football ex-players and coaches what’s what