Dustin

Woodley won NAIA quarterfinal. Johansen won FCS 2nd round. Bolte lost D2 quarterfinal (to Hoffner, who gets mentioned occasionally), Freund won FCS 2nd round, Schleusner has yet to coach today, Caruso and Schmidt did not coach today. Who am I missing?

Right??!!

I was thinking along these lines but not even as robust. Hope we make the investment.

I agree, announcement will come tomorrow night or Sunday, presser Monday.

It’s been mentioned in other ways, but Fruechte CANNOT be the next HC, even though he’s a guy I wouldn’t mind keeping on staff. The AD’s lack of imagination and commitment to actually climbing to the top of the heap would be so obvious.

Unless I'm not thinking of the right person, Fruechte did not coach with anyone being considered (at least by the SiouxSports contingent), did he?

Guess I should have done the math.

Yep. Glad they found a way to make it work.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/college/term-sheet-spells-out-compensation-for-unds-bubba-schweigert?fbclid=IwY2xjawHAAKFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUsFYOgnznPAA-GFH4sBQU9dK5VVL68FmgYSXpp8U4ZeiznyuZw8s-Sv5g_aem_ISk4B0fnMKhrWOdyQX8_tg Couple of takeaways: - Bubba's salary won't be what it was as FB coach - Fruechte applied for HC position - Bubba will be mentoring other coaches (which opens up some questions, like what's he telling them? "Here's how to consistently lose on the road but never really be held accountable." ??)

I voted for Bolte, but Caruso seems like a fine pick. So does Woodley, who was not presented as an option in the poll.

One thing I hope happens with this change is a more robust salary for the whole staff. If we want to belong in the upper echelon of the MVFC we need to pay people like we expect them to win.

I would assume that’s what the interim head coach is doing.

Someone mentioned that Caruso and Fruechte have a previous connection - remind me what it is?

Ok. Which one was yours?

Woodley?

Maybe someone with a good sense of the timeline can explain the athletic facilities improvements (specifically related to football)relative to Bubba being hired and his tenure as a University employee. How much of what has happened was a result of Bubba being involved, if any?

I would think the job would be very attractive, actually. Kind of like what Kelly was saying.

And Bolte as DC.

Initially Schmidt's defenses were good, and actually bailed out lackluster Rudy offenses. I remember going to those games hoping our D would score because wasn't sure our O would.

Maybe Bolte as UND DC is a step up from BSU HC?? Don't think you'd get a current FCS coordinator to make a lateral move, though that very thing just happened to us (TWICE in a week!!)

I could definitely seeing it go this way. This is a direction I am ok with. With both of them being from the offensive side of the ball, I wonder who they would tap for defensive, which is the most crucial pick of the new HC, IMO.

Sounds like how UND took over NDSU in the '90s - with undersized and underrecruited underdogs a la Mike Mooney. Gives me some hope anyways that that can be replicated again.

Not to poo-poo on the signing day celebration, but there's a lot of talk about what a good thing it was keeping all the recruits in this class, but also a lot of talk in the new coach thread that we need better recruits. So, if the current staff, whose recruits have underwhelmed the fans, especially on defense, just recruited this class, what should make me feel any better about their future performance as student athletes? Were these recruits committing to UND over our primary rivals?

Flights grounded due to weather??

Not a Bubba favorite moment, but I have a Roger Thomas favorite moment, based on a story I was told, but I wanted to know if someone could verify that it actually happened. Supposedly, this is how the story goes: a Thomas-coached team beat someone they were not expected to. A sports reporter covering the opposing team (the one who was supposed to win but got beat) asked Thomas post-game something like "In your wildest dreams, did you ever think you would win this game?" to which Thomas replied something like "My wildest dreams don't involve football." Anybody have specifics as to what game this was, or even that this exchange even happened? That is such a great response to that question, I've never forgotten that story.