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This has been the biggest disappointment for me regarding the BB era. I never would have guessed that recruiting would take such a back seat. From the outside, it always felt like we were just missing out on top players due to bad luck, but learning now that our head coach was so disengaged from recruiting is pretty disheartening. Don’t get me wrong—BB seems like a great guy: friendly, approachable, and well-liked. But this whole recruiting situation has really left a bad taste in my mouth. Like you, I can’t help but wonder what could’ve been with a little more effort. One thing that’s especially hard to wrap my head around is Jax. He was around during the Hakstol years and continued through the BB era. If he saw the issues with recruiting, did he ever raise those concerns with BB? And if he did, why didn’t anything change? It’s tough to believe he’d stick around if no one was listening. Just a lot of questions—and probably not many answers.

I hope this is just a prelude of things to come from Chyz. Glad to see them start off with a bang.

In my opinion Herter would be one of the better options. Not sure if he is ready to move on from Western Michigan, I would think he would, but tough to say what his long term goals are. Does he plan to continue coaching or is he thinking about leaving sometime in the next couple years. You would think if he is thinking strategically, that if he comes to UND and on the chance things don't work out for Jax, he would be the heir apparent to replace Jax. We know he applied for the HC job so he at least was interested in that.

I never hear Toews talk about UND in any capacity. As mentioned when the Hawks won the cup he brought it to Winnipeg but as far as I know, which isn’t much, he had no plan to bring it to GF. Toews is a great player and I hope behind the scenes he has been an advocate for UND, but it doesn’t appear that he has been. I am sorry and I apologize if I am wrong but that’s very disappointing.

That’s makes a little more sense if it is a multi-use building.

I mean that is getting into Football US Bank stadium territory. There is no way they are getting a building worth that much. I have a hard time believe one donor let alone multiple would be footing 500 million.

Cohen said WMU’s new hockey arena is 600 million dollars. There is absolutely no way that is even close to true.

There might actually be something to teams like Minnesota, Michigan, BU, BC etc that get all this talent but it rarely ever pays off for them. They have a bunch of great players but everyone wants to be the man. As far as I am concerned BU can pay all they want for Boisvert, I don’t think it’s going to make a bit of difference for them next year. Boisvert could have been the man at UND next year now he will be one of 25 players.

I like that. Don’t know if it would happen, would he want to come to a place here he applied and didn’t get the job only to an associate HC. I guess we will see.

Well that is big time. I really hope this pays off hugely.

Inexcusable, period.

I have no doubt we will be back. I just hope it doesn’t take us more than a couple years. Our fans and alumni and former players will never let this program slip into irrelevance.

In general it’s time to move on. Wish him luck, our time and energy is better spent on people that want to be here. Let’s get to work.

Isn't there a ruling coming that would effectively allow schools to pay athletes instead of having collectives etc? It does appear that we perhaps as fans, administration, alumni, have missed the boat on this whole collective and getting money to compete in this new era. This should be a wake up call to fans, alumni and administration that it is time to support and advocate for the collective.

Exactly. Looks like some drunk kids wrestling around.

You could tell he was a scrappy player who liked to mix it up. Certainly is disappointing to see him go but from the sounds of it, he may have some anger issues and probably will be for the best.

Agreed. I am actually surprised Michigan would want Perron given the pick of players they usually have. Seems like a big gamble to pay money to.

Or BC fans.

Doesn’t really matter where or how. There are things Schloss doesn’t know or doesn’t report

Karl applied for the job and was part of the first round. He didn’t make it to the second round, I would think perhaps he won’t be coming back.

#2. This is disturbing to hear, but makes sense with the lack of recruit announcements coming the last couple years.

As much as we want to pin this all on Chaves, and believe me he is an easy target, he most certainly leaned on Erik Martinson for this as well. I like Marty, I have known him for a long time, but he was just as instrumental in the decision making as Chaves. So good or bad he deserve credit or criticism too.

I feel like whoever made that post was more wishful thinking than matter of fact.

I think a lot of people are worried that it is just going to be more of the same with Jax. I am a bit surprised how many people are less than pleased with the hire. Jax has to change things up otherwise it’s going to be a short tenure.

There you go.