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In all honestly, it should have happened at the end of the 2023 season. Didn’t happen. Here we are. The major issues are funding and doing what’s right for the football program, which should be facilitating much needed transition. Bubba is now the complacent old guy in charge and there is no energy or novel ideas to come anytime soon with that. That means that the program is at current dead in the water. Change is needed. The next OC hire is a big one for 2024, but I would be very surprised if it is anyone other than an internal hire. Who would want to hitch their coaching career to a soon to be retiring (or terminated) Bubba Schweigert? After beating NDSU in 2023, everything went down hill; Bubba lost his team including now his associate head coach. Inexcusable, and there needs to be consequences.

I slept on it, I’m still pissed. This hockey-only culture is absolutely atrocious for our University from a regional and national scope. Our football program - which includes assistant coaches salary pool - needs to be much better funded. This has been a topic of debate for years and nothing gets done.

It’s going down. Find the damn lifeboat.

We’ll see what happens now. No great external candidates coming in now at this point. Will be forced to hire internally, but no one here now can coach quarterbacks. Not getting my hopes up. 2024 has lame duck year written all over it. Gonna likely be awful. But at least Bubba will be gone more likely than not.

Kennedy tried it because there was a factual basis to it, but it ruffled the feathers of the rich and powerful, so the attempts were ceased quite quickly. Unfortunate. And here we are in 2024 and we’re still experiencing fallout.

If he left to an FBS program, sure, I’d understand. But he is taking a lesser position (no longer play caller) at an in-conference rival institution; that is unreal, especially for someone like Danny who is (was) all about UND. Writing is on the wall. Bubba is cooked. He’s losing some of his best and most loyal assistants to in-conference rivals. And lastly, but most importantly, this is also an indictment on the UND athletic department; they need to pay their assistant football coaches better or else absolute embarrassments like this will continue to happen and UND football will continue to be mediocre.

Contract goes to 2025, yes, but after a losing season in 2024, and losing Danny, plenty of folks - including even Chaves - will be forced to accept that a one year buy out is the best option and it’s time to move on.

Lots of drinks and frustrations coming in 2024. Everyone set aside a fund for UND in late 2024 to help hire a new coaching staff.

Pawlak is fine. See how it goes. Probably will only be for one season.

Again with a narrative that you think makes you seem well-informed and reasonable, but it really is lackadaisical nonsense that indirectly represents UND athletics’ problems, including UND football. This one is just pure bad. No good. Only good will be with change, but coaching change is only a small part of that; there needs to be more dollars put into football and I have little confidence the leaders in place will hire the right replacement.

Change needs to start at the top. Ultimately, the overall leadership has been poor. Can’t have crazy swings week to week like UND football has sustained under Schweigert.

It’s a smart move given the circumstances, but we shouldn’t be in the position to begin with. Bubba Schweigert should’ve stepped down, or, otherwise, he should have been let go. Dates back to 2021 extension that wasn’t justified. All in all, I get what Danny Freund is doing, but it also shows just how hopeless the 2024 season is going to be. That is all because of how mismanaged this football program has lately been under Bubba and Chaves. UND football alums and fans should not be happy with how things have been managed.

The end is near it people do not realize how horrific this makes UND football look. Go from OC to QB coach at a rival in-conference school? Not to mention the guy who is doing it “bleeds green”? Chaves and Armacost need to be held accountable here.

Whoever it is he’s gonna be looking for a new job after one season but he will at least be able to say he was an OC at UND for one year in 2024

Yeah … probably an overreaction … but not good for any sport not named hockey.

Absolute gut punch.

From an overall athletics standpoint - not just hockey - yes.

Too late for that. Should have happened years ago or at least weeks ago. Now we’re in for a screwed 2024 season because of leadership incompetency on several fronts.

“Bye bubba” should’ve happened years ago … but he had guys in his corner from the good ol’ days and here we are...

Correct. Losing respect fast … and didn’t have much leftover to begin with.

Might be on to bigger and better things by then but this sounds nice in theory at least.

When you fund the most popular sport in America as a second-rate sport this is what you get … pathetic. Increase the salary pool … ASAP. And hire a better head coach please.

Correct. Danny is no idiot. 2024 is a lame duck year. ship is sinking. 2013 coaching hire was poor, and extension in 2021 was especially poor. This is just plain bad to be honest. But, well, hockey … Ha! What a joke…

Yeah, but this guy … https://gojacks.com/sports/football/roster/mark-gronowski/12203 https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2024-01-06/south-dakota-state-qb-mark-gronowski-wins-2023-walter-payton-award?amp … lots of questions regarding his future.

Point is, you can’t really retain that well now. South Dakota State has done pretty good, though, and they’ve seen results because of it. So, I guess, it’s just relative; top FCS programs just have to retain better than everyone else.