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Regardless of who UND hires for offensive coordinator and offensive line coach, UND’s offense in 2019 should have plenty of talent and experience, including at QB and offensive line. http://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/4532519-unds-new-offensive-coaches-will-inherit-plenty-experience-challenging-2019-schedule

There are plenty of potential candidates I’d be happy with, from FBS position coaches to FCS coordinators and Division II head coaches. There are also some young division II coordinators out there with good potential. I’ll be happy if the hire and his offense ultimately does well come August 2019.

Spot on.

The receiver position has not been great. I don’t buy that. How many all conference performers in his 5 seasons? How many complaints about depth and speed this season alone? No need to boast this guy up more than deserved. He’s a great guy and former UND QB with great pride in UND but that’s all we know relating to being a division I OC. Lastly, anyone hired will have new ideas relative to Rudolph.

Now this is a reasonable response and is certainly possible. A lot will obviously be based on the other candidates who apply.

No it needs to be considered. Of course Rudolph could have been so closed-minded that he didn’t listen to his staff around him, but my point still should be openely considered and not just ridiculed as the simpler thing to do. I guess I’m still somewhat scarred from the last major in-house promotion that occurred for UND football: Mussman to head coach in 2008 and Luke Schleusner to OC in 2013.

1) Is Agnew being considered for the OC position? 2) Was Agnew on staff for all 5 seasons? Answer to both: NO

Why was the UND offense so poor despite Freund being on the offensive staff the past 5 seasons? If he had the answers, we would have seen it on the field. And, of course, we certainly did not see those answers ever materialize; UND was never a consistent, competent offense - only isolated good games here and there.

Rudolph “lit up the NSIC”? I don’t think we’re thinking about the same guy here. Rudolph’s Minot State teams were average to below average at best.

For a single season ... Need more of a sample size than that.

Okay, I’ll play. Who coaches the WRs then? The new OC? Freund then at QB coach? I am fine with Freund going to QB coach as long as he and the new OC are on the same page. There’s a lot of ways to spin it. Minor concern is that Freund was on this staff the last 5 seasons but yet the offense was still horrific. I’m going to just wait for the outside hires and/or internal promotions to actually happen and then I’ll give my opinion from there. UND needs a couple quality hires to ADD to the staff already in place. All this talk of internal promotion amongst a staff that has shown incapability has been alarming to me. UND needs to use this opportunity to get better and more ambitious.

Rudolph prior to Bubba hiring him: No DI experience. No DII national championships as offensive coordinator or head coach. Limited playoff experience as St. Cloud State offensive coordinator His past accomplishments were not and are not overly impressive. Also, I don’t agree on your “requirements” point. I hope you’re just trying to play devils advocate because you really seem quite off on this. UND needs to find someone who will come in with a new sense of excitement and expectation for the offense. So important after the previous 5 seasons of poor offense. Also, asking for previous success at the program the new OC and OL coach come from is not asking for too much.

Well, I’m happy you think I was happy, I guess. In the past 18 months, how has the quality of UND football been? I stand by my past comments and sentiments as UND football has been very poor over the past two seasons. It should be unacceptable relative to UND’s standards.

That bunch has not done well at UND. Need new culture with successful past.

Obviously they need to have a successful track record. Rudolph clearly did not have that when hired in 2014.

Now Freund is a ST candidate? Horrible idea. We need successful outside coaches with outside ideas. UND has been 46-44 since he’s been on staff starting in 2011.

God this would be pathetic. Hope you’re joking. I’m missing the old arrangement already just thinking about this potential cluster f*ck of reassignments. The offensive guys on this staff are a apart of the issue and need outside ideas and culture to right the ship.

Rudolph was also a former college QB... While we’re at it, after switching Freund from receiver coach to quarterbacks coach/offensive coordinator, why don’t we switch Kostich to offensive line? I absolutely hate this notion that internal reassignments are a good idea. I just don’t care how great of people they are or how great of former players they were at UND. UND football needs to new blood and outside ideas. It’s the only way this stale culture is cured. It is so important to recognize the culture here is apart of the issue, with of course the offensive scheme improving also.

Apparently that ain't so, based on your previous comments and my comments. I’ve never accepted the title of “most negative person on here”. I expanded on this "WTF?" situation detailing how strength of schedule is nearly impossible to predict this far out plus potential positive changes are coming to UND football. Perceiving me as "the most negative person on here" is a bit misconceived. I have always said it as it is; I have no ulterior motive to purposely spew unsubstantiated negativity at UND football. In fact, it is quite the opposite. If you really want to waste time, go through the entirety of my posts detailing the UND football program. Ultimately, you can form whatever opinion you want, I suppose. But at this early juncture, I expect UND football to go 11-0. We'll see how it goes against Drake on 8/31/19 and then I'll reassess.

F’ it. Go for the W and beat cow college. Need to be way more aggressive than the offense was in 2015. Go for the win, UND. Then leave the Fargodome as it implodes with riots in the background.

2019 - 6 home games, 5 away games. No FBS opponent. I see UND in the playoffs with a competent offense. Your schedule comments scream pessimism. Do you actually want UND to be a contender or do you enjoy losing?

I’m not the one making those decisions, but Chaves sure as hell better be able to make those difficult decisions when reality strikes. At some point, if things aren’t going well, you make changes. We can respectfully disagree with our predictions, I guess. You may recite fiscal conservatism, but I’ll counter will football logic and trends around the country in Divison I Football. If UND and Chaves want to ignore habitual losing then UND will hit rock bottom (especially considering UND is competing for fans and donations the way it is already).

There will be no game in 2019 more difficult than the 2018 @Washington game (yes, including even 2019 @NDSU, screw them). UND doesn't play an FBS game in 2019 and has more home games than away games. As far as I'm concerned, considering the new offensive coordinator and recent failures, we should expect UND to be a playoff team in 2019 or else ...

6 home games next season (2019) compared to 5 away games. UND needs to be a playoff team next season or wholesale changes must happen. Only 1 playoff appearance in 6 seasons with no playoff wins is firing criteria, in my opinion.

Stop it. There is no way to know the exact difficulty of the schedule now. Some of those 2019 opponents could have surprisingly down years. You never know. Remember the 2017 UND football season? I hate, absolutely HATE, when people limit a team's expectations before a single game is even played. It's my biggest pet peeve in football. Give UND a chance first to fill out it's 2019 roster and hire an offensive coordinator first my goodness. As of now, UND should plan to go 11-0. Why not? No reason we should be "planning to lose" already. And, finally, if UND continues to deteriorate despite the difficult 2019 schedule and has a losing record, Bubba needs to go following 2019. Simple as that. No more procrastinating. Get this program going the right direction!