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I doubt either one gets the job, but since the name has been mentioned plenty and is popular, are we sure Johansen is even a better candidate than his counterpart (USD offensive coordinator)? I think USD OC Josh Davis is looking like a darn good coach. Turnaround for USD really started in 2023 with his hiring as their OC. Has extensive experience with SDSU prior to USD. No HC experience but obviously knows the Midwest and the Dakotas very well.

History wouldn’t suggest that.

Sounds like excuses, but I’m sure there’s potential; there always is … You know what they say about your record; you are what your record says you are. DeBoer didn’t elevate Schmidt to be his DC, so I think this ongoing argument of DeBoer’s “endorsement” also should be reconsidered.

We got our guy as in we kept a guy in Grand Forks around whose teams he’s coached over the past two years have gone a combined 10-13? This sounds like a tremendous risk and a tremendous slap in the face if true. Like Fruechte as a person, just like Bubba, but sure hope there’s a different direction than this … but it would be typical UND. I’ll support whoever, but damn …

I’m sure, it’s a fraternity, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right choice for moving UND football forward in Division I against NDSU and SDSU. We’ve seen this movie plenty of times before, and we all know how it ends.

Alabama and DeBoer currently has 3 co-defensive coordinators … apparently Schmidt didn’t was to join that …

2024: 29.58 ppg

Amen

Someone hasn’t lived in Cali ….

Not what you know but who you know … sound familiar? (e.g., UND football head coaching vacancy 2013…) Tough to get out of our own way here at UND. It’d be nice to take the next step and actually compete and beat SDSU and NDSU.

Current players liking him and avoiding an exodus (when players leave in the portal every year nowadays anyway) is an awful reasoning to determine next head coach. Sacrificing one year of recruiting (which wouldn’t even need to happen since all committed anyways) is always okay as long as you hire the right guy, as you then get multiple good years in return. We ain’t going all in on 2025, but certainly want the team to be as competitive as possible right off bat.

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 …