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1 hour ago, UND-FB-FAN said:Do you wanna help bolster the salary pool? I’d be happy to help with it if Bubba wasn’t the head coach. Bottom line, I don’t expect the list to be very exquisite, and that’s disappointing but it’s the current state of UND Football. Who would want to hitch their coaching career to Bubba at this stage?
Figured you wouldn't actually put a name out there. Must easier to keep up the constant complaining when you won't take a stand on anything. They're is also a significant difference between "uninspiring" and "exquisite". There are very few "splashy" hires, especially given the overall circumstances.
As to your other question, I've increased my donations to help the program, regardless of who the coach is. I remember where we were 10 years ago and the program is in a hell of a lot better spot and I don't want to see it end up back there.
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14 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
Yeah. Uninspiring list.
Let's hear yours, realistic options.
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1 hour ago, ND-fan said:
Chaves since being here the athletic program is mirroring or very similar Eastern Washington where athletic program can’t support it sports and there has been proposals there shutting down its football program.
I quit reading after this sentence.
UND has administration that is going out of its way to support athletics. Such as the new facilities, Public/Private Partnerships for Memorial Village, FCOA, Alston Awards among others.
EWU has administration that was actively campaigning against their athletic department. They are a directional commuter school that has an endowment that is literally less than 1/10 of UND's.
It is impressive they have had the spurts of success they have on the field and should be commended on it. But their trajectory, on and off the field, is a huge cause for concern.1 hour ago, forksandspoons said:Bubba's salary is $255K is 2024 and $265K in 2025. Maybe he could have barely made it by on $200K a year and spread out that extra $55K and $65K a bit..
Since his first contract, he has taken a lower salary to direct more funds to the assistant's pay pool. And part of his extension was to increase it even more.
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42 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Respect within the confines of your comfortable inner circle is easy.
Just ask Epstein......oh wait nevermind.
Garnering respect outside your comfortable inner circle takes effort and is more challenging. "Just email me."
Epstein? Wow.
To your other point, the overwhelming large majority of people I have spoke with have had no issues talking and sharing opinions with the current AD. That includes donor events, sporting events, university functions and just in general. I think all stakeholders should be more than welcome to give their opinion, understanding that their voice is just one of thousands, but I'd also be curious the whole story on why you, or maybe just others you are speaking for, aren't getting the attention or responses you feel you deserve.
40 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:This is why the current state of UND athletics is pathetic right now.
Jason Eck made $94,000 his last year as OC at SDSU after 1 final and 1 semifinal appearance his first two years as OC.
Lujan made $83,000 two years ago before he got a raise after he won a national championship.-
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10 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
like @gfhockey says .....chaves just sits bt the shitter on his burner phone posting on his burneraccount instead of the old fashioned pressing the flesh and making connections like tom clifford wouldve done and did
Why are we comparing an AD to a President?
I know its an unpopular opinion, but UND's AD is one of the more highly respected one's at UND's level and in peer groups. There's a reason he's on multiple committees for different sports. However, there is no argument that the W&L's need to get back to following the rest of the positive things going on though. A lot of sports were left in some pretty bad spots and turning things around isn't always as simple as we all wish it was.Just out of curiosity, when's the last time UND has an AD that everyone universally loved? I can think of a issues going back quite a few decades.
Faison?
Buning?
RT?
Wanless?
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1 minute ago, nd1sufan said:
You would have to get the offense quality control guy. I think other position coaches at NDSU make more than 88k.
Barring something huge changing since last year, that is incorrect. Only 2 of the 6 that didn't have a coordinator designation did a season or two ago
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1 hour ago, gfhockey said:
Go read papa belquist twitter
must be some issues at und
id assume bo is gone on April 15th too
He's venting because the coach who convinced his kid to stay took an opportunity that he saw as a better stepping stone for himself for the opportunity after this one. Tough to argue his point. Has absolutely nothing to do with UND.
To clarify further, he put the #1 bison troll in his place letting him know that he also understands the decision.
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3 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:
With thinking like that, no wonder our athletic department looks like a high school department instead of a Division I collegiate department.
Guess the powers that be should have tried a gofundme instead of actually putting a plan together to (unfortunately unsuccessfully) keep a good coach here today.
It's one thing to be frustrated, because I know I am today. But to continuously make asinine comments like this shows how little you actually look at or understand the bigger world of college athletics. UND is nowhere near the top of the food chain but there are an absolute ton of low and mid major programs (FCS and more than a few G5) that would trade places with their overall position (academics, facilities, support from admin, etc) in a heartbeat. And before you make things up again, not a single person is satisfied.
It's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems.
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This is actually hilarious.
Albany a top 5 program? The team with 2 winning seasons in the last 5 years who has a record of 50-61 over the last 10 years?
Take out an very solid, above average season in a second-tier conference (where they still lost to SDSU 59-0) and they had 39 wins the previous 8.5 years (adjusting to 1/2 season for covid).The other thing that is ironically funny is that the team someone proclaimed a top 5 program has had the same coach since 2014. They haven't fired the coach who has won 4 games or less in 5 of 9 seasons (6 of 10 if you count their 1-3 showing during the spring covid season).
This has to be some sort of bit.
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23 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
but there are only 5 good programs left in fcs tho
I'd be curious which 5 those are. And then how recently a sinking ship has beaten each of those.
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23 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
wrong. It’s implied over and over again.
At least you're finally admitting no one is saying it out loud, it's just the voices in your head telling you it's happening....
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4 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
Glad you over-thought that one. UND underpays is the bottomline.
Maybe Schmidt taking a cut to get FBS coordinator on his resume also? San Diego State budget likely not much larger than Wyoming’s, but someone else can look that up.
okay, I looked it up. San Diego State with greater football budget than Wyoming.
https://knightnewhousedata.org/fbs/mwc
ultimately pointless in terms of UND underpaying football coaches ..
I already posted how much SDSU is dedicating to their assistant pool. It's significant. The staff is getting paid, the coordinators well above what anyone in the FCS is paying.
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3 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
I keep seeing that typed on here but then the actual comments suggest otherwise …
And I keep seeing you say there's a bunch of people ok with it, yet not a single person actually has said that...
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3 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
I hope Eric Schmidt is the running, among others. He will be a Mountain West coordinator next season. NDSU just hired a Mountain West coordinator with close program ties to be their next head coach. Ultimately, UND needs to up the ante with their coaching salaries no matter what. Have to take the most popular sport in America more seriously or be left behind.
Polasek did take a small base pay cut to move from OL coach at Iowa to OC at Wyoming, but a 13% haircut to get OC in the FBS on your resume is likely worth it, particularly with a head coach you know and expectations that aren't sky high. What he was making at Wyoming is in line with what he is likely getting at NDSU.
Schmidt made significantly coaching ST and Edge rushers than Polasek did as a OC for Wyoming. Like 65% more.
Will be interesting to see what his salary as new DC of SDSU is announced at. Sean Lewis was given a $3.7 million salary pool for his 10 assistants. Safe to say he's needed to keep Schmidt in the same ballpark on compensation to get him to leave UW, which is significantly more than anyone in the FCS is getting as a head coach. -
4 minutes ago, SD UND said:
They haven't been on UND's team for over 3 years... and it took both of them at least 2 years after UND to figure their !@#$ out...GTFOH
And a few extra stops for both of them.....
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36 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:
Why don't we do things like this? Because of UND's stoic and stubborn clinging to the past, which can be summed up in this sentence: "if we've been doing it the same way for 30 years, then it's good enough for us going forward." That is the backwater, bush-league thinking that is holding us back in athletics. Ideas like this should be studied and adopted if deemed feasible.
Here we go making arguments up again. No clue in regards to the actual facts and circumstances are but still tossing out strawman arguments and accusations.
A large part of why it hasn't been done (yet) is because UND's Champions Club is set up differently than NDSU's TeamMakers meaning there are different hurdles to overcome. On top of that, the optics of taking an existing opportunity/site away from a local non-profit is a bad look regardless how you spin it. That's why @nodak651's commentary about reserving a new opportunity for UND is much more palatable and a much more likely scenario. I can assure you "ideas like this" have been studied for their feasibility. But it is a lot more complicated than you're making it out to be.
As an aside, showing how fickle the non-profit gaming world is, NDSU is likely to lose a large chunk of their revenue in the coming year's if EPIC is able to get its own non-profit to pass the smell test and can "award" itself the Holiday Inn site (or whatever ends up replacing it). And NDSU can't do anything about it.
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10 minutes ago, Kab said:
He said he didn’t have the team ready and that’s on him
no !@#$ Charlie
He took one for the team.
At some point, the team that gave Nebraska a run, need to look in the mirror and show up. Could have thrown everyone under the bus and blamed himself. If you think a coach needs to let the players know he importance of the conference opener, not sure what to tell you.
Either way, embarrassing performance from the head coach down through the bottom of the bench.
2 minutes ago, GoodGood said:TT has never been able to shoot. Career 30% 3 point shooter. Shooting 29% this year.
Seems like he often makes shots by your definition....
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11 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:This is the perfect meme for UND football right now:
Show me literally a single person who's stated this or even believes it, externally or internally.
There's a group of squeaky wheels chasing ghosts with some made up narrative.
It's not where anyone wants or expects it to be but it's nowhere near what some keep pretending it is. Progress has absolutely been made from where the program was but there isn't a single person who's satisfied with where it is.
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3 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
All that matters. Shut ‘er down when you get there. Staff don’t like the spotlight. Bad attribute to have …
No one said that or even implied it. And the team, staff and fans all agree that it needs to go beyond just getting there.
However below average or average staffs aren't accomplishing that, particularly ones that apparently can't recruit or develop players. Especially in the toughest conference in the subdivision.
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10 minutes ago, homer said:
So coaches can’t recruit or develop talent?
Amazing they are one of the few teams that have made the playoffs 4 of the last 5 years.
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10 hours ago, siouxweet said:We have gotten to the depths of despair where we are criticizing another program's coordinator hires?? Outside of that one hour in October what have we done as a program in the last 20 years??
Seemed like a nice change from the continous ripping on our own staff and players...
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2 hours ago, Bison Dan said:
You keep holding on to that as that's the only thing you got. How'd that work out in the playoffs and recruiting?
Heard your new DC was the guy in charge of both the unit that gave up a 100 yard TD to start the game and the crew that got bowled over and missed tackles the other 59:50 of the game. And he got a babysitter to watch over him. Big fan of TP already!
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18 minutes ago, Bison Dan said:lol - in the end you're still a little over .500 team and next year under. Love your bb players as recruits.
Could you imagine how embarrassing it would be to manhandled in every facet of the game by a team like that?
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2 hours ago, GoodGood said:
Denver is D1, I never used point differential to prove a point.
4 hours ago, GoodGood said:UND got waxed by 20 by Denver that year.
OK boss guess I misinterpreted you literally using point differential between UND and Denver to infer UND would have lost to Ottawa as well.
Like I said, you keep saying it happens often and then state it as 1-2 times per year like somehow that is common.
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Again with pretending anyone is content. Again, I ask you to show me that anyone has explicitly said "good enough".
No one is. The program needs to keep improving. But most of us just don't want to see it slide backwards for that to happen to prove some sort of point or be able to say we were "right" about something.
Pushing for things like improved facilities, player nutrition, coaches salaries, etc. are things that move the program forward. Not withholding funds and then complaining that things aren't improving. If anything, that seems asinine to me.