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Sensitive today, eh? Settle down francis. If you don’t like discussion, then don’t read it.

I hope so too. If the internal discussion is anything like what the discussion is on here, I have to imagine there’s some debate as to what UND football needs in their head coach in order to take the next step. My two cents, give us a proven winner at head coach. My rationale is simple, it can translate. Bubba won around 51% of his games at Duluth, then won 53% of his games at UND. Quite similar. I’d like to see a coach with a proven high winning percentage get the job. A guy with no head coaching experience is high risk, but possible high reward, in my opinion. And although high reward sounds nice, you can’t go with high risk if you’re like UND and never terminate / fire coaches until they are mediocre for a decade plus … give me the proven winner at HC.

This is good. I had a good laugh with it. Nice guy does not equal good to great coach. Some folks struggle with that concept.

Well, more the merrier, add to the high enrollment. We want talented students on campus, but as for making the football roster, the standard needs to be higher there and everyone should be in agreement. If it’s challenging to make the roster due to higher standards, they could mean more talented football team (if you’re evaluating correctly; otherwise it is just a bunch of crap and ongoing mediocrity continues).

Then we may just suck again (being facetious of course, sort of).

Amen.

#5 and #6 seem to point away from UND head coach being right for Bolte and for UND at this time. #1-#4 seem to suggest he’d be a great fit for UND football.

Can’t imagine losing your head coach is considered exciting but who knows … Maybe Bolte leveraged the situation into a contract extension for himself at Bemidji State…

Comes down to list of applicants … If you have one (or several) proven winners as a head coach (Caruso, Woodley, Bolte, Hoffner; heck even Baldwin) in your applicant pool, can you really in good faith turn them down for an unproven coach (never before a head coach) in Fruechte, who over the past 2 seasons (1 UND, 1 Winona State) has been associated with a losing season each time ?? I’d be really really cautious with this momentum he’s gaining due to signing day, it seems unwarranted…

The recruits were more likely to sign here and follow through with it after hearing there was going to be a new head coach… plenty of excitement with the unknown. For decades UND has settled coaching vacancies internally or with heavy connections, would be nice to see them not do that for once. Remember … inbreeding?

So here all along Chaves hired the right guy last year as his 3rd choice (after Freund and Landry) … who would have known? I’m not buying it, but wouldn’t surprise me if it happens.

Not too sure on that… who’s he going to hire to fix the mess of a defense? Plus his offense had a few duds this year. I agree in that there’s potential since he’s young, but it’s too big of a risk compared to what else is out there and who else likely applied. You just don’t simply hire someone cause their young …

Beau Baldwin didn’t do the bizon any favors in the 2010 FCS quarterfinals … But I agree on the masquerade part. Tom Miller included his name in the article for good reason; there’s connections. Anyways, there’s other good candidates out there, most of them winners as a head coach, and really none of them have been a coach at UND in the past 10 years.

It’s not just me …

Last time UND elevated their offensive coordinator to head coach (2008) it didn’t work out too great … Apples to Oranges comparison, sure, but more so just don’t think we should be thinking internal with this critical hire.

Sure, he knows nothing because he’s in the CFL. Forget about his previous success and connections with Chaves… onward

It’s definitely complicated, but winners win. Let’s start there, and hopefully Bill, Erik, and Andy do.

Trying to somehow elevate Schmidt as a better candidate than Baldwin is silly to me. You’re trying to say a guy who has never been a collegiate head coach, and also someone who has had limited to really no signifiant success as a coordinator, should be considered a better candidate than a guy who has actually won an FCS national championship as a head coach. I can appreciate the geography concerns, but football is football, whether played in Cheney, Washington, or Grand Forks, North Dakota. And yes, Schmidt wanted to call plays, and DeBoer (knowing him well) didn’t want to afford him that opportunity. Perhaps logical based on how it went for him in San Diego in 2024.

He did not want him to be a coordinator.

Schmidt was a position coach on staff with a guy (DeBoer) that has won everywhere. And by winning, I mean championships. His next shot at DC (which was this season) went awful. Winning and championships matter and he wasn’t producing anything special along those lines when DC at UND nor now as DC at San Diego State. Beau Baldwin also has won championships. He did well with Cal. He was shorted at Cal Poly due to limited resources and the pandemic. ASU he was only there one season. Baldwin would be a good hire.

I agree. Both proven winners as a head coach, I take either one.

Well … you know why.

What else is a drum good for?

Experience doesn’t always equate to success. Some young individuals are really successful and some older guys never quite get the job done, etc., etc., etc. I agree that experience is nice, but I think a history of success is most important. Winners win. It’s an intrinsic quality for some, although some can learn it, sure. In the case of Schmidt and Luke S., they likely have learned new things and made new connections, but why haven’t they shown more success? Same goes for Freund with UND (2011-2023) and Freuchte (2024). Based on getting someone who purely knows winning football, that also coincidentally happens to mean getting someone not recently (or ever) associated with UND football in the past.

Understood. Looking back at 2013, the “village idiots” on here actually made the right decision. But, what do us diehards know?