Sioux94

Best thing to happen to UND football in a long time. Forced the change that we needed to really try and advance our program and be a contender.

Let's remember Elioder left USD to come to UND, so did the UNI RB. With the coaching staff change and new facilities we have a lot to offer. Thinking Schmidt will help change the attitude and perception. I'm not saying we killed it in the portal, just saying UND has a lot to offer moving forward.

You gotta think this coaching change will invigorate the guys who stay and truly get them excited about next year. I'm sure many of the players felt pretty close to how we all felt at the end of this season.

I think there was an O lineman 5-6 ago, was Coe his last name, something like that?

Might get the best of both worlds and get both.

Hopefully no big names or OL leave, but might be good for a few to hit the portal to open up some spots for us to add.

This. Bubba was a defensive coach. Look at offense under Rudy, the offense did a 180 when Danny was hired. Do we think Bubba all of the sudden said hey let's run a bunch of trick plays. Then as soon as Danny left we stopped running trick plays? No, it's because he put the OC in full control of calling plays, as he should have done. Fruechte called the plays, including that 2 point conversion.

I agree with this, but he has more to prove before becoming our HC. I mentioned it yesterday, if Bubba stepped down last year and we hired the OC from Winona State to be our HC we all would hsve lost our sh*t over that.

I'm sure there was quite a bit of interest in this job and probably a fair amount of calls and discussions which weeded people out who weren't going to make it into the top three, so they never filled out a formal application.

Oh I know, it's been fun. I've always felt we'll know something by Sunday before the portal opens. Feels great to hsve hope and excitement again for UND football, hopefully tomorrow is a good day!

I leave you guys alone for like 10 hours....and when I come back here....there are 8 pages to catch up on lol. It's not going to be Fruechte, it wouldn't have drug out this long if it was going to be him. Yes ,Kelly said would like salary to be 350k, that is a wish/hope. We do need to up the salary but it also needs to have incentives in it. How aboutv300k but 5k for every win? You go 10-2 then you make 350k. If they increase salary to 300k or more, even more reason it probably wouldn't be Fruechte who is making what, 110k today? If you are going to give it to him you could keep it at 250k with lots of incentives to see how he does. Hell I'm quite sure Fruechte would take the position if it was only 200k.

Right. Can you imagine if Bubba stepped down last year and we hired him as the new HC, every single person here would have lost it. I do agree though that he seems like a good leader and coach.

So now you know the details of what's happening over dinner, but had to track tail numbers to try and guess who is flying in to GF? Got it

Did Deboer take his existing DC with him when he made his move to other teams? If so that might be why, he was already happy with his existing DC so there wasn't really an open spot for Schmidt to get promoted to. I don't know if that's the case or not, just saying.

Seems like they wouldn't have put the criteria how they did then, as he doesn't meet that.

We may have less big names hit the portal than we would have for this exact same reason. Definitely hope Seidl stays. He could be deadly as the starter.

How many spots will we have available to add? We will probably want a few guys to hit the portal to free up some spots.

I think part of keeping all 23 is recruits know there will likely be a lot of FBS guys looking for a home so probably wise to stick with the offer they had. Nonetheless still a great job by the staff and impressive that we didn't lose any. With the right coach and the way the portal might be this year we could turn this around quickly. I was going to somewhat mentally check out of UND football this off season, but now with the HC change I'm excited again! Hopefully we nail this!

Yeah because every flight coming into Grand Forks has UND football HC applicant on it.

I think whoever it is will have equaled Bubba's playoff win total in 11 years, by his second season.

Im sure Schmidt has many connections, but nobody in their right mind is going to go from Washington or Alabama to UND are they? Even if they were made the OC or DC they would be making way less. Would have to be a pretty low end coach from any of those schools, to go to UND unless they really felt confident it could somehow be a stepping stone.

This is all happening at a good time actually. If we get the right guy we could pick up some key FBS drop downstairs and turn this around pretty quickly. That HS QB that committed to UND looked really good, Im sure Beau could secure that commitment. At 52 Beau is getting towards tail end of his career, would UND be a stepping stone or an ending spot? He hasn't been as successful lately, but he did a great job at EWU with crap facilities. Seems like he'd be able to do well recruiting with the facilities we've got.

I would agree

I was thinking the same thing when Berg said that.

You might be right. Just absolutely bonkers that Jerry didn't get a single snap in a meaningless game that we were getting our butt's kicked in.