Siouxperman8

Sorry I wasn't more clear. For those of you that need everything spelled out for you (AC grads or flunkies) he was talking about football.

Merry Christmas.

I don't think Bubba had any control over that.

Just got an email from Faison as a "football stakeholder" announcing Bubba. Good luck Bubba.

One possibility is that if he decided on Bubba he would want him in town for the announcement.

I know UND has been working hard over the past number of years to establish some kind of connection with Minnetonka. Hopefully this is a start.

I was hoping for Bubba.

I was impressed with Josh the few times I met him. Good luck to him with his new job.

Exactly.

I would guess if he was working on somebody else in the last 5 days he wouldn't tell you and unless he was successful you would never know about it. Has the school ever announced there are two finalists. I haven't seen it anywhere official, only on message boards.

I think it is just as likely that Faison was working to convince one or more of his top choices to apply right to the end. I really doubt it was laziness or incompetence. A lot of opinions on here have somehow become fact in most posters eyes.

I still will back Faison and believe he is doing what he can within the system he has to deal with. With that said.........this is really frustrating.

If this is true as reported in May 2012 by the Missoulian then he should have been sent away by the HR department. How do you defend his non-action? Or do you think it isn't true? But in January, UM President Royce Engstrom wrote in a draft of planned public remarks that then-Grizzlies football coach Robin Pflugrad had disciplined some football players accused of raping a woman, but did not report the incident to his supervisors.

I work for a large corporation (excess of $2 billion) and that is exactly what our HR department is for.

Agreed. Pretty disturbing

I agree with this. There is a lot of angst based on internet message board guesses regarding what is happening behind the scenes. We really don't know.

I know it is a reach but that is a reason that I would think Dale might be interested in coming back to UND. He is in an iffy situation there, he has recruiting ties here and it would start the clock again on his success or failure being determined.

I talked to a family member of Tibesar's the day after Muss was fired. He didn't know the job was open but was quick to say that Tim loves what he is doing and doubted he would be interested. It is hard to believe that Faison wouldn't have done some preliminary looking into Tibesar's interest when he posted the job. Other than rumors, we really don't know what he did or didn't do.

Are you saying the process didn't work when we hired Lennon? I agree that the process is ugly but it did result in a good hire in that case.

Siouxjoy explained the process earlier in this thread. HR gives points to applicants based on the criteria in the posting. Faison can interview anybody he wants to but he also has to interview anybody that has a higher point total than that person. That isn't his fault.

Rocco has been very good again.

The American Tire commercials have become classics in my opinion.

I don't know if I can watch that 5 star collision commercial again with the deer on the couch. Wow.

I think the 9 were forwarded to Faison so it wasn't his choice to not include Pflugrad if that is true

We've regressed to arguing about what makes SU good. We need a coach soon so we have something else to talk about.