UND99

Is this per your sources, or just your opinion?

Best chance to make the NCAA tourney is to take advantage of the 2nd half schedule, which I believe they will do.

If the team drops two of its next four regular season games against CC & BSU, get back to me. Otherwise, I am not concerned in the least after this exhibition trip to the NW.

The team will be fine. Haven't even found their grove yet and halfway through the season the team is in the top half of the conference standings with a relatively favorable second half schedule. Seriously, tonight's loss was AN EXHIBITION GAME!!

Big deal...UND couldn't beat UBC in an exhibition tilt. Minny also couldn't beat Colgate tonight, and Bucky couldn't beat Anchorage, and their games actually count.

Agreed. There actually was some worthwhile discussion regarding what might transpire with NDSU's incoming players recruited by Bohl. Jheria has completely sidetracked that thread. Ban him.

Wasn't Sandelin head coach in 2005, the year it was held at The Ralph? Also assisted under Blais at the 2012 tournament.

Greg Johnson played in 1991, the year Lindros dominated in Saskatoon.

Brad Berry, Geoff Smith, Jason Herter, Brad Bombardir

I wonder if the clause is specific to only Bohl and not the assistants that are going with him to Wyoming? So could Vigen, et. al. reach out to the NDSU recruits for Wyoming instead of Bohl?

Heard the same thing.

NDSU is, by far, the biggest rip-off artist of the NCAA: 1: Scott Miller's "My oh my" crap was directly pilfered from Dick Engberg's "Oh my!" expression. 2: That dumb saying "The stench of the herd is the Bison and the stench of the Bison is the herd" is a larcenous grab from Rudyard Kipling's The Law of the Jungle. 3: Calling themselves the Thundering Herd is blatant thievery from Marshall University. 4: And of course, the cute little hand signal Bison fans like to display is an egregious affront to the University of Texas' "Hook 'em Horns" display. That's an awful lot of determined theft by the state's Ag School. Perhaps it explains the Best Buy debacle? Screw those bastards. In Bubba we trust!

And one of those gaffes cost a team a chance at a third consecutive national title.

Absolutely. And that is exactly what NDSU & Alabama do. They design their teams to win the line battles on both sides of the ball and then proceed to build their teams outwardly from there. UND will achieve a great level of success in the Big Sky/FCS if they are able to successfully implement the style of ball Bubba aims to.

I am all for the defense-first and ball control approach Bubba will be bringing back to UND. This is the championship recipe, just look at college football's two currently budding dynasties, Alabama and the Ag School. Control the line of scrimmage!

I know some fellas who were recruited by Bubba who don't have many good things to say about our new head coach's recruiting abilities. That being said, the aforementioned recruitments occurred quite awhile ago, so I am not sure how much stock to put into those experiences.

The interesting thing about Ted Schlafke's name being thrown about as OC is that despite his relative youth in regard to the position, the recruiting footprint he covers is favorable to UND. He was a fine QB at Minnesota-Duluth, is originally from Wisconsin, and has coached in Montana and Illinois. Additionally, he has very good upper Midwest connections in Nielson, DeBoer, etc. As far as the DC, I'm assuming it's Schmidt all the way.

UND took 36 days to make a football coach hire. When Alabama canned Shula, they went 38 days before hiring Nick Saban. It would appear as though UND is ahead of the curve?

New commitment, Deion Harris of Hibbing, MN.

This long, drawn out process of hiring a new head coach has been a big downer no doubt. And at this point, I don't care which of the two finalists get the job, I'm just excited for a new staff to come in and instill/restore the Fighting Sioux football attitude. Had our previous head coach been retained, I would not have renewed my season tickets. But now, I'm pretty dang excited for the 2014 season. HOKA HEY!

Either gfhockey is on something, or he's onto something...

I am all about bringing Schmidt aboard as DC, regardless of who the head coach is.

Born on Jan 1 1994 or later.

I'm convinced that the next head coach of UND football has yet to named on this forum. I think Faison has his guy targeted and we will all know who it is a week from tomorrow.

He's not going anywhere, he likes where he his.