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Having lived through the Behrns regime and looking back I think he was just too young and/or inexperienced for the job. He was 30 when he took over. He was a micromanager and wouldn't let his assistants run their position groups. We had mostly good assistants when he started but they all left. Richman and Olson came in the second wave and were good coaches along with a couple more but there were definitely some guys in over their heads. From the time I started to when I finished 4 years later, Pat was the only one left on the staff. That includes assistant coaches and athletic trainers. All gone.

Looking back, what's amazing is we were 7-3 in '82 and 8-3 in '84 and that wasn't good enough to make the playoffs. You had to be top 8 in the poll to make it. In '82 we were tied for 8th in the poll with N Mich and played them at their place in last game of the season. Winner moved on and loser was done. We lost like 30-6 or something

We had a lot of good students who became successful lawyers, doctors, engineers, PTs, business execs…. Just think it wouldn’t take many low scores to drive team gpa below 3.3. the only accredited basket weaving major was the underwater discipline.

Not sure but I expect it's higher than what we had in the 80's for the teams I was on.

from same article. https://fightinghawks.com/news/2024/1/25/general-fighting-hawks-shine-in-classroom-during-fall-2023-semester.aspx Overall, the student-athletes combined for a 3.391 departmental GPA, making it 31 straight semesters above the 3.0 mark as a department. 300 of them – a monster 81 percent – earned at least a 3.0 and an impressive 95 collecting a perfect 4.0 mark for the semester. Of those 95 perfect scores during the semester, a whopping 63 student-athletes maintained a cumulative GPA of 4.0 during their academic careers. In addition, 89 Fighting Hawks earned a selection to the Dean's List while 51 were named to the President's Honor Roll.

Didn't dig too deep but this is from Fightinghawks.com and fall '23. Pretty good GPA across the board other than men's bb. TEAMS FA23 GPA Men's Basketball 2.504 Men's Cross Country 3.640 Men's Football 3.334 Men's Golf 3.546 Men's Hockey 3.387 Men's Tennis 3.431 Men's Track 3.530 Women's Basketball 3.197 Women's Cross Country 3.485 Women's Golf 3.690 Women's Soccer 3.424 Women's Softball 3.361 Women's Tennis 3.789 Women's Track 3.514 Women's Volleyball 3.529

I was impressed with King. He was tenacious and the announcers recognized it a couple of times. Didn't shoot well last night but had 9 rebounds, 6 offensive. Led the team in rebounds from G position.

Makes sense. Have heard a high major basketball coach talk about how difficult it can be to get talented kids to come to their school when they have to pass so many other schools to get there. They said their choice is to either take marginally talented players or take risks on talented players who are more likely to fail school or get in trouble otherwise.

At QB they first got Streveler drop down from MN (a number years ago). He was MVFC Off POY in 2017 and runner up for Walter Payton award. Now have Bowman from Iowa State. We don't seem to get many FBS drop downs at all

had conversation with MVFC official today. He didn’t work this game but said when they picked up the flag with no penalty on USD after the intentional grounding was discussed in weekly officials meeting. Head guy brought it up as a bad miss. Official that got his nose in there and said receiver in area - wasn’t his call at all.

As a former college fb coach, medical doctor and veteran who served in a war zone, Ira doesn't need a reminder that - you need to realize in life there is something larger than yourself.

I'm afraid there will be a push to continue it in the name of keeping up with improvements to the Ralph.

My pet peeve is still that REA keeps 52% of fb ticket revenue. They then decide how much to give back to the athletic department at the end of the year. It is rolled into all their revenue and expenses. I believe it is completely up to REA how much, if any, they give back. Some years it has been $1M, other years $0. rough numbers - this year we had 71,987 paid attendance. At $20 per seat (guess) 52% would be $748k I figure the athletic dept sure could use that. Needed much more than the REA needs it.

Probably but the main issue was McLaughlin pushing the puck away from goalie when tried to cover it. Berry quote in herald today. “if you let TJ stop and cover it, and us identify the guy coming from behind and dig into him, he doesn’t get a stick on it,” Berry said. “It’s just basic hockey.”

The no fumble and no grounding on them were !@#$ calls.

Playing with a lot of energy so far.

Boom

Pretty sparse crowd in here.

Last one I saw was MIAC

I know it's going against the grain here but my hope is that we win the last 2 games, make the playoffs and win a couple of games there too. I am not counting on that happening but I don't ever see myself hoping we lose game.

not advocating for him. just saying he showed up on some lists in the past as up and comer but not anymore

Glenn Caruso from St Thomas was fashionable pick a number of years ago. Don’t hear his name mentioned much anymore. They haven’t set the world on fire since moving up.

Danny wasn’t able to recruit good enough talent here when he was OC. Not sure he could do it as HC either.

Will check it out

Do any bars in gf have the game on when only on Nchc tv? we’re in town and looking for the game