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Fire Haskol, save UND
As an outside observer, UND is the most talented team on the planet. He recruits great players but the team can't get er done? Whose fault is that? Duluth recruiting isnt in the same league on paper but they win when it matters? How would the Duluth coach do with the same players and facilities?
Seriously? We couldn't keep up with Yale yesterday so how are we the most talented team on the planet? We have 2 goalies that no one trusts.............that does not equal talent.
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I’ve been thinking about posting this for a while so here we go. I’m probably going to upset some people so I’m sorry if I do. Also, if anyone has a relationship with Brewster show/send him this.
1st - Roebuck was an A-hole. Brewster isn’t by nature but he is being one. That didn’t work for Roebuck the last few years and it isn’t working for Brewster. Brewster trying to be one just comes across as a personal attack on the girls and if practices are like games is probably just creating a verbally abusive environment. Brewster’s ego has also inflated to the point of almost blowing his head off. He needs to remember he puts his pants on just like he did when he was an assistant. He is just sitting in a different desk. This is obvious to anyone that has interacted with him in both positions. He needs to deflate his ego, quit being an AH and be the coach most of us believe he can be. If he doesn’t I fear things will just get worse. We lost two players and how long will it take for word to get out?
2nd – UND needs to take all the DII banners out of the Betty and put them in the Alumni Center or somewhere, but get them out of the Betty. There were some very good/great DII teams, and I really enjoyed watching them, but if any of those teams had played a full DI schedule they would have been 50/50 or 60/40. That’s the life of a DI Mid Major. That is not a slam or insult toward any of those great teams, that’s just reality. UND has chosen to move to DI and constantly dragging the girls back into the DII era is not productive, and is probably just creating a negative environment.
3rd – I’ve read articles on most and talked to several of the girls and most of them got multiple DI offers. They then chose to come to UND, they didn’t have to come to UND. I think this group of girls can be successful but they need to be coached, not berated or belittled. If the guards don’t have the skill set then coach and teach them, they have the athletic ability. Our 3, 4, and 5 positions can play with many, many Mid Majors, not just the Big Sky, but they can’t be so afraid to make a mistake that all they can do is make mistakes. If a player, any position, makes a mistake on the floor they immediately look to the bench to see who is coming in for them, and someone is always sent in for them, rather than just working to overcome the mistake.
There may be no difficult transition than moving from Asst. to Head coach in the same program. The head coach makes ALL the hard decisions while the asst. get to be the "good guy", the one everybody runs to when the head coach is too tough, mean, crabby, etc. Brew will learn with time to be himself, asshole or not, he'll learn to be himself.
Secondly, if you think a team of Jenny Crouse, Katie Richards, Tiff/Jamie Pudenz, Kamie Winger, and all the others that existed on the run of titles would be a .500 team in the Big Sky, you couldn't be more wrong. Those teams would have won the Big Sky and possibly won a game in the tournament. SDSU has done it in the last 5 years and those UND teams were every bit as good as anything SDSU has had lately. Hard to take a person serious when you make that kind of a comment.
Houdek, Evers, Smart, Buck, either Gilette, Frydenlund, Siri, Roehrich, etc. NEVER had multiple DI offers. No way, no how. Bottom line is UND had to fill their roster when they were in transition and the easiest way to do that was to get area kids. No true DI players were coming to a school with no conference, no playoff hopes, and no chance to play for championships. Now, we'll see. You have a conference, you get an automatic bid if you win, and you've filled your staff with assts. to know Minn, Iowa, and other states to recruit from. Time will tell how good we'll be.
There will never be another national title banner to hang in the rafters. Appreciate what we did in DII. It won't happen again.
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Every coach on campus, minus the hockey coach said the Sioux nickname was affecting their recruiting prior to last season. We are now over half way through the athletic year and at some point during each of the respective seasons have complained about the talent level, either as a whole or at specific positions of the major programs, minus hockey. I don't know if its a coincidence or not.
All I know is that when Roebuck left, he didn't exactly leave the cupboards full for his replacement.
The difference in this turnover however is that the replacement not only helped in recruiting these players, he was a leader in recruiting these players. Buck and Brewster worked together on recruiting. Buck knew he was leaving and gave Brew a big piece of who he wanted on his bench. I guarantee Mills and Williams were hand-picked by Brewster not Buck
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I have a ton of respect for Coach Roebuck but this program was already downhill when he left. I am not willing to jump on Brewster for the lack of talent on this team. We would be no better off if Gene was still coaching than we are right now. Only difference would be that two players who were recruited by Roebuck and have shown are not impact D1 players may still be on the team.
Don't disagree with anything said here. I will put Brew on the hotseat though as he and Buck recruited these players. Head coaches rely heavily on their asst. coaches for evaluations of players. Brew spent more time on the road than Buck the last 3-4 years so these are his players too.
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Even though I suspect part of it can be explained by the fact that the high school girls basketball talent level has seemingly dried up in North Dakota and northwest Minnesota compared to the 80's, 90's and early 2000's, I am surprised at how far the UND women's program has fallen. I would have never thought the women's program would struggle more in recruiting than the men, but that seems to be what has happened in the past three years or so.
I don't follow dII basketball anymore, but I'm curious--how would our perimeter players stack up against the best teams from the NSIC? Is it a matter of there just not being enough talented players in Minnesota anymore, or have we just made some recruiting miscalculations and failed to offer some quality 1's, 2's and 3's who are now starring in the NSIC and who could have helped us?
We would NOT beat Mankato or Augie right now with the players we have in the program. U Mary is good but sr. dominated and their coach is in his first year after many years as the asst. They do well in Wisc. for recruiting as well as ND. Con.-St. Paul also a solid program but they pick up some DI transfers who come back to MN after failed efforts. Wouldn't be surprised if 1 or both who just left program end up there.
EGF girl who left gets about 13 min/night at Jamestown right now if that means anything regarding our recruiting lately.
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All good thoughts and ideas. The bottom line, neither of these guards were DI talent. Athletic, yes, bball players?, no.
The idea that these 2 scholarships are of any value this spring is a bit naive. The best are committed and gone. Very few "good" players wait til their season is completed anymore before picking a school. I'd use the scholarships in the fall for class of 2014 athletes rather than spend them now on talent that there is already too much of in this program.
Facts are facts, this team is 2nd to last in the Big Sky, handles the ball over like its on fire, and these 2 guards were part of the problem not the solution. The days of playing for championships like the 90's and early in this century are a long way off. Brewster helped bring these kids in when we was the first Asst., now he's gotta fix the mess.
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Is Brewster micromanaging these girls? Just seems like he's always yelling for the girls to pass to a specific person, which takes their mind off the game trying to listen to him and be obedient, so they lose any flow in the game. Roebuck did a lot of yelling too, but it seemed more about telling them what mistake they made rather than interfering with their own decisions on passing.
Turnovers certainly haven't improved at all this season, so the girls can't be learning within the game situation..
As Bill Parcells once said, "At this point in the season, you are who you are."
This program has had poor guard play for a few years now and it is simply due to recruiting kids that are not DI players. NDSU is guilty of the same thing. When we start recruiting kids who can play in the Big Sky, we'll compete, but until we do, this is what it is.
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How can we not have DI talent when we've been DI for 5 freakin years?!!!! What we're we waiting for?
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Let's be honest about it. We don't have one outside player who is a consistent outside threat. Smart is capable of it but for the most part doesn't do that. We don't have anyone else who is even close to being consistent. There is some recruiting to be done.
Our guard play is very poor right now. Most are sophs. I believe but Williams, Smart got enough minutes last year that we know what they can and can't do. Other than Smart, none stretch defenses by making 3's. Post players have little room to move when teams sag to them. The TO thing is ridiculous though. 32 in a college bball game? Terrible.
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FWIW, her bio at undsports.com says she scored 20.6 ppg as a senior.
I stand corrected, thanks.
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I believe the only players on the roster who could possibly have been considered big scorers at the high school level (20+ ppg in at least one season) are Smart and Houdek, and the caliber of their competition had something to do with the high school scoring of both. When you are constantly recruiting players who scored 8-14 ppg at the high school level, it's probably not a big surprise that they struggle to score at this level. In terms of recruiting offensive talent, it's been a slow but steady decline since the Langen-Kimbrough years.
Don't think Houdek ever ave. 20+ a game. Also don't think her class at Grafton ever made a state tournament. Totally agree, we need talent, not area talent, just talent!!!!!
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This may be the least talented UND team we've seen since the mid-80's, before Buck came along. I know Wall has been hurt but is really gonna make that big a difference? In theory, right now, our best player is from Ada, Mn. I know she's a great kid and a hard worker but we need players and we need to recruit metro areas where there is a population base to find players. So far the Mpls. guards we've recruited can't play DI bball. Too many TO's and they can't shoot a lick. Season is early, can't panic, but wow.
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Some of the conference games will be worth looking into tickets. The non-conference schedule at home is embarrassing. Crown College and Presentation? Are you freakin kidding me!!!!! If I had DII season tickets and those were two of my home games I'd be pissed. Those games are totally unacceptable and better not ever happen again!!!
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pretty sure southern utah redid their court about the same time we did and they put up their new school-colored big sky logo? plus how about some banners of our conference members?
wall and buck look like they spent a lot of time in the weight room/conditioning room..
I bet Evers didn't
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I know nothing about women's hockey but the talent difference between UND and U of M seems to be be great!! When the twins leave after this year are we back to being as bad as we were before the twins?
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Ellie Riplinger committed today
No way!!!!!!!! What the heck is Brew thinking on this? She must be committing to walk on.
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As of last winter, the rumor was UND didn't think she was big enough to play for them. Not sure if that's true or not but it was a real strong rumor all school year.
She is as good an athlete as this city has producted in quite a while. I'm suprised if the UND staff passed on her for that reason.
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As far as I know, no one is leaving...
We've hired 2 new assts. and Danye is still coming as an asst. How many asst. coaches can we carry? Someone has to be leaving
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Danye Guinn is coming back to be a Coach at UND, that is for sure.
Do we know who else is leaving? Are they adding a position?
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Drybugh hired as an Asst. Funny, that's how Brew came to Womens bball too at UND. Heard a rumor that Dani Guinn was coming back to coach. Is that now not happening? Didn't know Brew had 2 openings on his staff.
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She was treated very poorly by the coaches. Her attitude could've been an issue but I can't imagine it being a work ethic thing either. She was released but I wonder if she wouldn't have left on own anyways. Actually surprised she lasted the season.
Agree. She really was never happy there. Can't speak to her being treated "poorly" by coaches but I know going back to last summer was never really engaged with the programs expectations for work and working out................sometimes kids just wear out. She played a lot of ball growing up and maybe the college environment wasn't for her. They are still only 18 year old kids.
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I think its also important to remember that this team beat So. Dak. St. (played in the tournament) and Montana (also in the tournament). In spite of the "issues" discussed in this thread, this team has some talented kids and sometimes with talent comes ego. Don't disagree that a head coach has to deal with it but if he thought it was a problem I believe he would deal with it. Coach Jones has been around enough major college bball to realize a kid who's a dumbass from one who is a cancer. You can win with dumbasses, you can't with cancers.
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Based on what I know its amazing this team won the amount of games this past year. Jones keeps talking about how they are family and the great chemistry they have. This is so far from the truth. The coaches do not treat hardly any of the players as so called family. When a player is down or needs help the coaches do nothing and basically ignore them. They communicate basically by text, thats right text. Players this year that did not travel where notified the day of travel by text and no explanations as to why. Basically dont pack you are not travelling. There is much more but I will jump to the chemistry issue. This team is divided big time amongst the players. You have Webb, Huff, Anderson, Antwi and Gentry on one side and the rest on the other side. These 5 call themselves the "five live" and was told after they won the championship these 5 formed a circle and celebrated among themselves while the others watched. If you closely watch games you can see they look for each other and not others. Many of you have mentioned how Jones has no discipline, that is true. He is so scared that huff is going to leave that he sais or does nothing to control him but yells at others all the time for the same mistakes that Huff makes but nothing is said to Huff. This causes alot of problems cause these players are not stupid. During one game a player asked Huff while on the bench why he doesnt cheer for the players on the court, Huff said F*ck you. Then this player asked again are you too good to cheer and he again said f*ck you. This is how it is. No chemistry at all. Dont know if these and other issues can be resolved but its going to take alot more from these coaches than they are showing. They must communicate and grow some balls. This is D1 basketball not elementary rec ball. so they need to start treating these players with respect and not just ignore them like they are nothing, ask Haugen how this goes. I hope these coaches grow, if not this team with its talent will be swallowed up in the Big Sky.
Sounds like somebodies mom or dad isn't very happy. This really isn't the place to throw coaches and/or teammates under the bus. Take it up with Coach Jones if you aren't happy your son/high school classmate didn't travel.
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Little of both................been around enough to know.
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For the record, every Asst. that just quit was hired by Brewster, not Roebuck. Not sure how hiring a high school coach w/2 years of experience and another who was at Minn.-Crookston makes us better either. This is Brew's mess, not Roebucks.