legend334

Has to be one of the drinking buddies that go to the AD's house.

The two with the most posts on here are obviously the genius'. Since no one elses opinion matters. The two master posters always have a opinion, and they always know what is going on!! Brilliant!!!

Are you serious?? Then you must not know anyone within the athletic department or Twamley hall.

9 posts until a comment...wow, that has to be a record. IMHO his own agenda is move UND D1...take some of the credit before it becomes a gigantic mess, leave, move on, make more $$$ elsewhere, pound his chest that he took UND to D 1.....questions?? A few other comments from interview. Question of Johnson or Stafford not getting a interview. It was defined in the job description for what UND's program would need. Again stated that he had to follow the rules, which the AD set.

second, or thid that motion!! Hopefully this was his last hire. So what the AD beleives was the best fit for the criteria. In 2 years, when this D3 head coach fails, if he is here, will he fire him and admit his mis steps. Mac asked him if he would do anything different in the search, after ten minutes of jibbering, he said, the process took him where he needed to go. As a AD, who sets the criteria, at any point and time, can call over to Twamley and get whatever resume, application sent to him to consider for employment!!! Mr. Wanless did it many times...but when asked if the criteria is set by the board of higher ed or whomever, he did say, it came from his office!!! Holy circles batman!!

I agree. That was not a great performance. I felt like I was listening to a poltician who never answered a question. Especially when Mac asked him twice to answer the question why Mr. Stafford and or Mr. Johnson did not receive a interview. There was scrambling!!!!!!

Recap: The coaching decision was decided by the criteria. Which the AD set. Question was asked how NDSU hired within without certain criteria? AD danced around this question and did not answer. Question why was Steve Johnson or Mr. Stafford not brought in by Mac...twice? Danced around answer,never answered the question. Reverted back to criteria, which brought out the best candidate. When asked what it would cost UND to go D 1? AD did not know the number...later stated 1.7 million a year. Which will be a 3 prong funding, student fees, athletic revenue, alumni/marketing. UND currently funds athletics institutionally 30%. Which AD states will have to switch to 70%. The only way that will happen is raise tuition, kill student fees or eliminate a few universities. ND cannot afford to fund the athletic dept. Question: What time is the press conference, AD thought it was 3:30, it is 3:00...wow

Big news coming in a few days. Big step up is in the mix!! Congrats to Craig...he deserves it. WIll UND think they missed the boat?

Is that a shot?? Little birdie told me, in the next 2 days watch for a big announcement. I wonder if UND will think they missed out??

I believe the point that was given was UND and or local ties within the tri state area, Minnesota/North Dakota/ or even South Dakota, which all of those people definitely fit into that criteria!!! But thatnks for making Walrus's point again for him...

Jake is in TRF, selling Insurance with Thime Insurance, I believe is the name of the company. I had seen him there about a month ago.

I thought that quote was rather funny too. In the profession of coaching, similar to public office, you take heat when you shouldnt and you get praise when you shouldnt sometimes and vice versa. Not sure what he thought he would gain from that quote, except bitter feelings to people on a blog or internet web sites?

I had heard that he said he was not going to apply again after the last coaching hire. If they wanted to interview him, he told them to call him. Another happy alum. How many will it take??

This is what happens when outsiders are left to run a locally run university. You have no idea what UND history is, was or should be in the future. You may sit and talk about UND history, but realisticly what do they know about UND athletics. What they have read? That is not bleeding green, IMHO.

There you go using logic again...why would you want to reward someone who went to school at UND, knows the instructors, area, kids, employees, area high school coaches?? Stop using logic!! As far as the MBB coach, lets not declare the season this year a success!!!