Siouxperman8

Everyone step back from the ledge. They were exhibition games.

Dale is a great football guy and a very quality person. We aren't great friends but I played with him at UND and have followed the program closely since I was 13 years old. Based on my observations and that of guys that played for him and coached with him, I would have welcomed him back as the head coach and was hoping Faison would seek him out this time. Things haven't gone as well as he had hoped at SIU and I don't know the reason for that. He has lost a ton of close games over the years for some reason.

I talked to the Farmington PK and his dad at the spring game last year. I have a relative teaching in Farmington so his letter jacket caught my eye. Seemed like a real good kid.

Bring back Gunther. His teams could really play defense.

McFeely is reporting he has heard it.

They have it on undsports.com

I am still in town for Christmas so I went to the press conference. I loved Bubba's emotion as well as his words. Love the hire.

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.