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Tim Miles has some free time and a couple years where Nebraska is keeping food on his table. Maybe he wants to take on a challenge until he gets his next big opportunity. Saul Phillips applied for the Idaho State job, so he could legitimately be an option. The entertainment from the collective reaction in the region from either of these two would be worth the cost before he coached a single game.

Not a defense of Jones, but if fans are going to complain about the state of the program, then the coach has a fair point.

Nah, Jones actually won a couple conference tournaments. Above-average recruiter, average during the regular season and struggled with consistency, but almost always had his team playing their best ball during tournament time. Tough to argue with results considering the salary (and assistant pool salary) that the program is working with along with some very "different" situations that most coaches will never have to worry about dealing with. Always seemed to get the season he needed at the right time. I honestly would have put better odds on him going to Nevada to reunite with Steve Alford, who he coached under for multiple years but Alford just announced his full staff yesterday. Don't know what Jones' relationship with McCaffery is other than the dust-up from a few seasons ago and the two assistants Iowa already have on staff have been there for 9 and 10 years, so Jones would likely be bottom rung on the tree. Unless he really wants to get back to the Iowa area, that would like an interesting career choice.

This is such a ridiculous take. It's so bizarre to think that other colleges would take the heat and negative press for STU UST on this.

Lack of self-awareness and not understanding your place in the hierarchy can be more damaging than claiming whatever hyperbole it is about UND not wanting to strive to be better. It is an attractive job, particularly for someone who is ambitious. Especially now that it has been shown that people will notice someone who does a good job in that position. Yes, occasionally you will find someone who has the desire to make UND their capstone, however that is rare. I'd prefer someone who does the best they can while here and does it so well that they get bigger and better opportunities. Not a personal criticism against them, but I'd argue the previous few administrations were pretty good examples of what happens when you aren't pushing for bigger and better and are fine with the status quo. Kennedy has been in the running for multiple jobs that came with significant pay raises and much higher in prestige and he got those by impressing others with what he accomplished in his short tenure at UND despite whatever narrative others want to go with. It was far from perfect but UND will be much better in the long run because of what he put in motion while here. You have the order wrong on his leaving, Kennedy's days weren't "numbered" until he became the sole finalist for the Colorado job, not the other way around.

Happened to come across old friend Kurt Pallendach, who's the starting QB for the IFL Cedar Rapids River Kings. They play in the same league as Bismarck and Sioux Falls.

Accurate.

The PSU game being on 10/24 instead of somewhere in the first 3 weeks of the season isn't ideal but it looks like UND has KSU on 9/12 and PSU has Arizona on 9/5 and Oregon State on 9/19 so the typical OOC games don't match up due to FBS games. Would prefer a mid to late season bye instead of an early one.

I would actually argue it's the people who have blind loyalty to the Sioux logo that seem to be upset with MK and putting the blame on him, mainly due to the athletic department's insistence of the new logo being at center court of the BESC as being one of the issues that triggered KEM's visit to the GF Herald. The Sioux-for-ever crowd isn't going to turn against the Engelstad's because they are still convinced Ralph would have prevented any name change despite someone well respected within UND and close to Ralph stated the Ralph floated the idea of a process to retire the nickname over 20 years ago. The Engelstad Foundation isn't "paying the bills" outside of the "donations" for upgrades. The large majority of the revenue from the REA comes from UND. As for a new president's relationship with KEM, considering she hasn't gotten along with the last 3, I'm not sure how anyone would expect anything different unless they are willing to give her carte blanche in all decisions.

After reading the article, the only thing I might take from it is that Canadians can't get it in Canada, so they buy it in Grand Forks and take it back. Otherwise, I don't think it is researched real well, particularly after reading this passage:

Look like only one has head coaching experience and let's not forget their previous two head coaches were assistants at P5 schools (Utah and Penn State). That being said, it looks like they got some decent candidates. Depending on the hire, they are on the brink of only having 1 head coach who is female. Can't wait to see the reporting on that

No, but it's a big part of the issue in Grand Forks. Either that, or I guess the folks in the athletic department who acknowledge it as a huge problem don't have any actually insight or reason to be concerned. No one said it was the only issue. But it is an absolutely huge one. Pretending it isn't doesn't make it go away. As for the projector, unfortunately it isn't happening anytime soon.

You claim to want to find solutions that might help fix the atmosphere but won't acknowledge one of the biggest problems is the identity crisis going on within the crowd. Again, tough to work with those that can't accept reality.

Tough to work with those that can't accept reality.

I'd say figure out how to help people realize the Fighting Sioux nickname is literally never coming back so they can move on and accept the actual nickname and logo of the team they are cheering for but you said realistic, so I got nothing.

The would require him to be proactive instead of reactive. That being said, just because there aren't news reports of it happening doesn't mean is isn't. UND was continuously in contact with the Summit/MVFC for a few years, particularly the last year before joining, which included in person meetings, yet there were no reports of it happening. I believe that was the same time frame were there were those adamant that UND would never join the Summit/MVFC as the Dakotas were moving to the Big Sky in short order.

It's retired, not happening.

Counterpoint: UND's budget would still be a mess and the athletic department would still have a $2 million/year anchor around its neck.

Except for Kennedy has shown examples of being able to work with donors (see: Gamble Hall, UND Foundation on pace for biggest year ever). Not saying he's perfect, nor the ability to get along with everyone, but he's far being from unable to cultivate relationships. KEM has been in charge of the Engelstad Foundation for 17 years now and has yet to get along with a president at UND and has documented issues with UNLV as well. The range of personality between Kupchella, Kelley and Kennedy is pretty wide but I guess none of them gave 100% control to an outside entity that was desired.

I definitely don't disagree, money talks, I just think that quote was very telling. I mean, it isn't like UND had 3 presidents in a row that were exactly the same, so it is a certain personality that is causing the issue. Toss in the documented disagreements with UNLV and a pretty clear pattern starts to develop. I fully understand not wanting to be a passive donor, especially when giving donations of that size, but there is a fine line between having a say and acting like you know what's best for the institution you're donating to and causing problems.

Sometimes self-reflection is needed to help someone understand what the common denominator is in situations where the same problem continues to arise....

The claim that Kennedy was wholly unequalified and yet has been approached about multiple opportunities to move up, some that have been made public, some that he turned down, just reinforces the click-bait nature of this article that let's McFeely take a potshot at the NDGOP from his perch in Moorhead.

The two previous decades of "academic" presidents wasn't exactly inspiring.

Not really, SBoHE cut it off. He knows he's done here based on his own words.

How about you actually research what NDSU is doing before making a claim. It is on a Friday night and it isn't actually a game.