Hawkster

You know, I laughed when someone said that during football season and we had like 5 games left to play.

Well Bubba said something like it was all noise and he wasn't paying attention to it. A week later he was gone.

It will be interesting to see how the recruiting battles play out in the next 9 months. Anyone can offer a high end recruit. The trick is to get them over other big name schools, especially the ones with FBS offers. I think we are on the right path but the turnaround isn't going to happen overnight.

Saw this online last night. Carson Wentz played a familiar role at the Super Bowl. Once again he stood on the sidelines while a great Eagles quarterback won the game. (I don't care who doesn't like that remark, it's funny!)

Strinden

I'm thinking it's better to buyout Berry now and get it over with. Rip off the bandaid. At least recruits will know who they are dealing with

With football I've always heard that it was fatal to have a lame duck coach when it came to recruiting. Wouldn't hockey be the same way? Wasn't that Chaves excuse for always giving Bubba an undeserved extension?

I was just going to post the exact same thing. Berry will win just enough to keep going and Chaves won't do anything. I'm sure it won't take much because he can't afford another $450,000 on top of Bubba's $750,000.

If he's that easily influenced, we have problems.

Sacha for Saturday.

James

Perron

IIRC Hedberg was on the SIU staff when Bubba was there and went to NDSU at about the same time Bubba went to UND. Maybe Bubba should have brought him here. Hedberg definitely did some good things at NDSU.

Berg

We are already paying Bubba $750,000 to sleep in the office for the next 3 years. Even if the other two only each have 1 year left, it's still a lot of salary to eat.

What's the score?

So how bad is the score?

If only we still had women's hockey to plow NIL money into!

Nielson is paving the way for Johansen to leave for an FBS school in 2 years and take the rest of the team and the coordinators with.

Well years ago I always thought when it came to beer Schmidt was better than Pabst. At least Big Mouths anyway.

Kupchella was the guy I remember knocking 1AA. I said he wasn't true D1 like D1 hockey and questioned if it was a higher level of competition compared to D2. I think the UND football fans felt otherwise and wanted to move up.

What was really sad was the denial UND had in the early years of NDSU having success. The head in the sand approach while claiming that FCS (1AA) wasn't real D1 athletics seemed like it backed the administration into a corner and couldn't admit they were wrong.

I agree. Mussman was coach during move up transition and we didn't have much to lose. When Bubba took over everyone expected great things. Reality was much different.

I was about to comment on how much the Bison improved by stealing Landry. Until now I wasn't sure Landry was all that great.

That's probably why Entz was "encourage" to move on.