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Welcome to THE University of North Dakota, Mr. Chaves and family; rev UND athletics up and produce some championships!
Go UND Fighting Hawks!
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46 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
maybe he elevates hadju?
< pin drops >
< room silent in amazement >
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3 hours ago, Siouxperman8 said:
I preach the same as Gundy stated above when doing hiring in my company. I put a lot more stock into previous experience with a person and seeing them work. Thousands of hours of working with someone or witnessing their work play out are much better predictors than a 1-3 hour interview. It's easy to fool someone for an hour but you can't do that over time.
It's just as telling if you don't like about your experience with a person.
I'm a Mike guy based on limited personal interactions but more so based on watching how he goes about his business and how successful he has been while doing it.
You can't work directly with everybody. History is most important, including history that you don't directly witness. Chaves wins with history. Potential only takes you so far.
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1 hour ago, UNDBIZ said:
Although I think Chaves has to be the guy, Faison won a national AD of the year award too. Just saying.
Q: What's better than a national AD of the year award?
A: two
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11 hours ago, gundy1124 said:
I am not understanding the man crush on Chaves. I listened to about half, seems good with a slight bit of heard it before.
Man crush is a bit much, I think. His "having done this before and currently doing this" is certainly a plus. I think Chaves' values and individual thinking is well demonstrated and impressive in that video I posted. Most importantly, though, is that he is the only standing athletic director of the finalists and he has done very well at that position. Furthermore, he's familiar and apparently good at running a department at the FCS level. He's a two-time national athletic director of the year honors recipient.
The other candidates just don't compare. I think Mannausau could keep UND at the status quo, but what has he done that suggests he could elevate football and basketball? I don't think he could meet lofty expectations (nor set high expectations beyond hockey only) and Chaves could do that purely through experience. Chaves also has the outside connections that "a UND guy" wouldn't consider or consult towards.
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This guy is really quite impressive. Appears to bring so many qualities to the table (if not just energy and critical thought) that the UND AD chair has been missing the past 10 years:
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Something to consider:
Have any of the current candidates had the media of their current university cover the possibility of that candidate leaving?
I know Chaves' candidacy has been covered: https://www.google.com/amp/www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/04/eastern-washington-ad-bill-chaves-a-finalist-at-no/%3famp-content=amp
This certainly doesn't mean everything, but it may be interpreted as EWU appreciates the work he does and his leaving would be a big deal for that school. I suppose one could also interpret it as Chaves is the only current AD of the bunch. With that said, I think he would be a very good fit for UND athletics, specifically addressing the major national sports (football, basketball) that best fit the vision of President Kennedy.
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21 minutes ago, UND Fan said:
As you can see by my prior posts, I am not a Faison fan at all. But.... he was handed a budget. All programs (except hockey) were continually underfunded. I don’t know where he could have found the $ to help FB to any great extent!
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53 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Offensive line.
Offensive. Line.
The. Offensive. Line.
Nothing more need be talked about until that is feared, yes, feared, by opponents.
Yes, the teams with the best lines are typically very, very good. With that said, there are some above average teams with subpar line play. Not every school is going to recruit and develop a superior offensive line. In fact, UND is facing an uphill battle themselves with every in-state offensive lineman wanting to go to NDSU. Just look at all the North Dakota natives - some that even played 9-man - on NDSU's roster.
UND may be forced to play contemporary college offensive football due to this shortage of quality offensive linemen. That is, focus on skill position players in space. Yet, it appears Bubba and Rudolph want to keep banging their head against a brick wall. The line just isn't going to improve overnight.
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12 minutes ago, gundy1124 said:Siouxphan27 never fails to get my points.
In our respective divisions, it's not too far of a reach to expect a team to be competitive in spite of injuries and playing young players. Part of this is having a system in which young guys can hit the ground running. I doubt the Bama players are intellectually superior to our players. In fact, I bet we carry a higher GPA. I see a growing trend in college football that puts the best weapons in space or positions to make plays, and if that's a freshman then so be it.
Since I am not allowed to compare to Bama or Georgia, I guess, then let's just compare to NDSU, SDSU, USD, and the Montanas.........is that allowable? How about in conference with Weber, Southern Utah, E. Washington. If these are the closest comparables then based on last year we are dead last. 2018 is just a huge and telling year for UND, no pressure.
I'd blame the major issues of 2017 UND football on scheme (25%) per your point and on recruiting/depth (50%). I'll give injuries 25% of the blame.
What do two of those points have in common? Coaches.
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7 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:
Budgets and salaries are still too low. The budget he gave Mussman was a joke. He doesn’t inspire confidence. His smug anti social attitude has held us back.
These are all thoughts I can't really argue with. All in all, I think many big-time boosters have formulated the same opinion, unfortunately.
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7 hours ago, bincitysioux said:
Budgets and salaries went up under his watch for football and basketball. He got the High Performance Center done as well as many upgrades to the Alerus and the Betty. The stature of volleyball has gone through the roof since he's been here. He hung onto Mussman and Jones for too long. Hardee ended badly but be turned the VB program around. Prior and Bubba we're good hires. He was the architect behind the NCHC and got us into the Big Sky. He wasn't all bad IMO,...........
Did those things happen because of Faison or despite of him? Be honest with yourself. Faison was in charge of the department for basically the entire DI era. Many of those accomplishments you mentioned were de facto changes based purely on the reclassification from DII to DI.
Also, I think Prior and Bubba are in two different tiers of coaching. Bubba is 24-22 at UND (.52) whereas Prior is 103-40 (.72). Again, though, it seems some are merely satisfied with just winning more than you lose here at UND.
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20 hours ago, gundy1124 said:
I can see it now. Kennedy to Chaves, "Get me phase II, now!!"
Chaves, "who are the big donors?"
Kennedy, "I know a few but Manaussa has all the relationships built up from the past 20 years, but most big $$ wanted better leadership at the AD position".
Chaves to Manaussa, "go make me look good."
Manaussa to Chaves, "get bent"
4-5 years later, Chaves takes a position out west
Awkward, and back to square 1.
I sure hope something like that isn't in Mannasaus character, because then we shouldn't want him in charge to begin with. I highly doubt Mike would do something like that to sabotage UND athletics.
I just think UND needs some new blood with some new ideas. Mannassau has also never held an athletic director assistant position before. Continually promoting from within is not always a good idea, particularly when there are complaints about the current department.
Chaves has ideas from a different department that was successful under his leadership. He knows FCS football and DI basketball at the level UND plays at. He would potentially be a great addition to UND athletics that could possibly help move UND football and basketball forward.
All in all, we need someone with a vision for UND to be great.
In all honestly, Faison was satisfied with the status quo which was UND hockey championships and mediocre football and basketball.
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Chaves needs to be the front runner. There's potential with Mannausau and Porter, but Chaves has already been running a successful DI athletic department at the top.
Favorite has to be Chaves.
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53 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:
Expectations have to be lowered for this year and next
That's done quite a bit around these parts, especially for non-hockey sports.
Lower Expectations U, Grand Forks, ND
I'm quite apathetic at this point. Shame it has to come to this. Holding out slight hope due to the new AD.
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20 hours ago, UNDBIZ said:
With the way things have been for the team this past year, that's enough reason for me. Whether the team culture truly is off right now or not, the perception isn't good.
But also, we already have 2 seemingly capable juniors and a freshman. Don't really need another upper classman.
Key word is seemingly.
Just like last season was "seemingly" a guaranteed playoff season.
UND needs to get more talented across the board and never get complacent with the ability of the current roster, especially coming off a mere 3 win season.
Now, in regards to the Iowa State player, his history definitely does raise some red flags that should be considered.
Moving forward, though, UND does need to consider more "select" FBS transfers for pure talent.
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14 hours ago, iramurphy said:
This is as good of a thread to post this as any. I attended the Army Navy game this year and watched the Army and Navy Bowl games. Up to the early and mid 1960's they were both National powers. The Vietnam War certainly changed the thoughts of many athletes who might otherwise have considered attending one of the Academies and playing FB. The 5 yr post grad military commitment and decreased NFL opportunities remained a factor. Army, Navy and Air Force also have height and weight requirements that have affected the size of their linemen. The recent frequent deployments to the Middle East hell holes for active duty military are not great selling points either. The linemen for the Academies tend to be smaller than most FBS teams yet both Army and Navy have had two of the best running teams in then nation for some time. Air Force also has a multiple read option run game if I am not mistakes but I didn't see them this year. They have athletic QB's and multiple RB's who are on the field at the same time. Army's QB Bradshaw can't pass worth a lick . Navy's Malcolm Perry is very quick,and very fast but also doesn't pass very well. Their other QB Zach Abey is a great athlete who can run and isn't a bad passer. I think Studsrud would have been a much better QB with their multiple read option run game and is as good or better passer than these QB's. Take a look at the schemes these two teams run and I think that would be a very effective way to utilize our RB's. If you have an athletic QB who can pass, we would be a bitch to defend. These teams utilize smaller more athletic linemen very effectively. Big athletic linemen would be even better but it would be a way to better utilize our stable of outstanding RB's. Also a good scheme to utilize the athletic TE's. I bet Gundy could help Bubba draw up some nice sets where we have Johannesson, Olivera, Santiago and Gordon on the field at the same time. Heck, if we don't find a stud QB, put Santiago at QB and use him like Navy did with Perry. It's a fun scheme to watch and tougher to stop. I rather see something like this than a single back running up the middle against 9 in the box. This can get 9 in the box but still hard to stop.
Execution and discipline goes a long way when running flex triple option football. The military academies are well versed in this. Unfortunately, the complete lack of a passing game does usually cost the military academies at least a couple games each and very season. It's a tough style to be successful with when you're suddenly down a few scores.
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21 hours ago, Great white said:
Lots of criticism over the past months from arm chair players. Put yourself in some of these quick decision situations. Players do read this board and so do coaches. Has been very depressing to say the least. No wonder we have a hard time getting the top recruits. Who wants this negativity surrounding them.
You'll get that ANYWHERE in DI football. Welcome to the big boys. Some hear less because they WIN.
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2 hours ago, gundy1124 said:
For me it's the bad year on the field. It's hard to hype back up to previous levels after going from projected 1st to almost worst. Some feel regardless of the players we won't use their talent anyway. The staff has some proving to do, and credibility has to be earned back on the field of play.
Well said.
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5 minutes ago, siouxfan512 said:
Really hope to see Okpoko sign tomorrow. Would hate to lose that kid.
San Diego State offer appears to affirm he has a lot of potential. I certainly hope to see him sign with UND.
UND has targeted (and signed) some highly respected defensive line recruits lately. Hope it pays off starting in 2018.
The linebacker and defensive back spots also need major upgrading, and there's some potential in this class at those spots too.
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39 minutes ago, homer said:
You think Sam Houston would have stopped NDSU if they would have run straight FB lead up the A gap last night?
They run more power but most of their success last night was A/B gap stuff. SHSU wasn’t stopping it.
Complete exaggeration. No one on NDSU would run straight FB lead all night. Rudolph on the other hand might have tried. Don't oversimplify NDSU's offense; they do a lot with pre-snap shifts and spreading the ball around.
UND doesn't spread the ball around nearly as much which directly comes back to offensive game planning.
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1 hour ago, Siouxphan27 said:
You gotta remember tho we run a super duper complicated offense that takes 4.5 years to learn. And since Bubba's first recruiting class doesn't count, we won't know how to evaluate Rudolph until game 7 of 2019, when those 5th year seniors have mastered the super duper playbook.
Until then, you need to ignore everything going on around you and pledge your blind allegiance to the regime. Join the Borg. Resistance is futile.
Spot on.
All hail mediocrity!
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7 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:
First Offer U
Average Football U.
I'd like leadership and us, the supporters, to eventually entertain changing that.
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2 hours ago, TRex said:
I hope it's just because he's been running under the radar and not because we're so desperate that we offer whatever will look at us.
Wishful thinking, probably the latter.
UND (5-11, 1-4) vs Weber (10-6, 3-1) 1/13 2 PM
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Great game.
Good job by Geno and the squad - keep it going.
Likely way more excitement than ice stick will produce tonight.