Who would UND hire?

[Sioux94]

46 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

With the coming FBS roster hard cap of 105 I’d advise anyone with a roster slot to be grateful. Could be upwards of 3000 guys without an FBS home looking for one. 

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.

[SiouxFan100]

Someone who is about 37 years old 

[Cratter]

Chaves hired Baldwin partly because he had prior EWU connection.

So we can use deductive reasoning to basically know it'll be Baldwin or someone with a UND connection.

[petey23]

12 minutes ago, Cratter said:

Chaves hired Baldwin was he was only 36.

Pretty young.

It would be nice to hire a young coach who after 10 years at UND isn't at retirement age.

The next Coach better have gotten a better offer within 5-7 years

[Cratter]

Why hasnt any football team hired Schmidt to be their head coach yet?

They all found better options?

[Cratter]

Brent Bolte seems like the guy with the most potential amongst likely candidates.

Or should I say the least risky.

[UND-FB-FAN]

12 minutes ago, Cratter said:

Why hadn't any football team hired Schmidt to be their head coach yet?

Hasn’t been successful enough as a defensive coordinator. 
 

I don’t care about his past with UND, going 3-9 and giving up nearly 30 ppg in the Mountain West is not good. We shouldn’t be jumping at this hire at all…

18 minutes ago, Cratter said:

Chaves hired Baldwin partly because he had prior EWU connection.

So we can use deductive reasoning to basically know it'll be Baldwin or someone with a UND connection.

I would like Baldwin, but the odds on favorite is ….

Schmidt.

Chaves is going to honor Schweigert’s endorsement, and who do you think he’ll endorse? It will be his right hand man from when they were a player-coach duo from 97-01, assistant coach duo at SIU, and again a head coach-defensive coordinator duo at UND. I don’t think it is right, or the best for UND, because I don’t think Schmidt is the best candidate. But, Schweigert will get to make one final decision for the football program (perhaps again that sets it back). Hope I’m wrong. 

[fightingsioux4life]

55 minutes ago, Ron Mexico said:

1.  Eric Schmidt

2.  Eric Schmidt

3.  Eric Schmidt

1. No

2. No

3. No

[jdub27]

33 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Beau Baldwin did quite well in terms of wins and loses at Cal. He was an apart of a resurgence, with team going 5-7 his first season in 2017, and then 7-6 in 2018, and then finally 8-5 in 2019. Yes, the offenses were not that great, but team did okay. Cal Poly was a dumpster fire but it was during the pandemic when a poor job got poorer. The ASU season (2023) was bad. 
 

All in all, though, given his connections are equal to Schmidt’s in terms of FBS, and Beau Baldwin actually has been a successful (and champion) FCS head coach, I’d give the nod to Beau Baldwin over Schmidt.

I'd argue the connections to put together a young and hungry staff pretty significant in favor of Schmidt but whatever. Having people at UW and Alabama to reach out to is a few steps above Cal and ASU. 

As for his time at Cal, bad offenses (that he oversaw) were all of that:

In Baldwin's second season at Cal, the Bears’ offensive efficiency ranked as the second worst among all Power Five teams.

As the offensive coordinator for California, the Bears finished the 2017, 2018, and 2019 football seasons with the 11th, 12th, and 12th ranked offenses respectively out of 12 teams in the Pac-12 Conference in Yards Per Game. During those same seasons, the Bears finished with the 10th, 12th, and 12th ranked offenses respectively out of 12 teams in the Pac-12 Conference in Total Points Per Game under Baldwin's offensive leadership.

 

Again, he's a viable candidate. But his recent track record isn't very good and he's approaching the tail end of his career (so not looking for a stepping stone like people are clamoring for). Definitely not a slam dunk. 

[gfhockey]

We need to be a stepping stone not a destination 

[gfhockey]

Schmidt sees this as destinsyion

[jdub27]

1 minute ago, gfhockey said:

Schmidt sees this as destinsyion

Not even close to accurate.

If Schmidt didn't have connections to UND and there was an opportunity to look at someone with P5 coordinator experience from a team that was in the semis for the CFP, turned down going to the SEC in order to further their career and now are looking for a HC job, I would hope that is someone that would be a serious candidate. 

[fightingsioux4life]

When will the job get posted?

[iramurphy]

If Chaves has his man, then I don’t think it’s Schmidt.

If he is going to review applicants and interview finalists, I think Schmidt would be one of them  DeBoer’s high opinion of him carries more weight than us rubes on this forum.  It is more important than his UND connections or the fact that  the new staff at SDSU hasn’t turned the program around in 1 year.  

 

 

[iramurphy]

19 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Schmidt sees this as destinsyion

I don’t believe that is accurate. Nor do I think he sees this as his final destination if he were to be selected.

I do believe he would want to stay long enough to get UND back into the National Championship picture before moving up. 

[BIGSIOUX]

Interim fruechte

[F'n Hawks]

There are still doing a national search it appears.

 

From the UND press release:

 

[UND Football Fan]

I am not saying I’m all in on Schmidt, he had a motor when he played.He is competitive, and intense. I do think his last year he did a decent job with the defense, we burned practally all the quarters Red Shirted D-Line because of all the injuries. Unfortunately the lack of depth caught up to us with the outdoor locker room playoff loss to Nichols State. 
 

One of the negatives I noticed last night.

His bio at SDSU said he would put in a 4-2-5 at there. Watched some of the Air Force game last night. I saw a 3-4 defense get shredded. The only 4-2-5 was like his time at UND. Used in long yardage situations. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

1 hour ago, jdub27 said:

Not even close to accurate.

If Schmidt didn't have connections to UND and there was an opportunity to look at someone with P5 coordinator experience from a team that was in the semis for the CFP, turned down going to the SEC in order to further their career and now are looking for a HC job, I would hope that is someone that would be a serious candidate. 

 

58 minutes ago, iramurphy said:

If Chaves has his man, then I don’t think it’s Schmidt.

If he is going to review applicants and interview finalists, I think Schmidt would be one of them  DeBoer’s high opinion of him carries more weight than us rubes on this forum.  It is more important than his UND connections or the fact that  the new staff at SDSU hasn’t turned the program around in 1 year.  

 

 

 

54 minutes ago, iramurphy said:

I don’t believe that is accurate. Nor do I think he sees this as his final destination if he were to be selected.

I do believe he would want to stay long enough to get UND back into the National Championship picture before moving up. 

Schmidt is controversial, as again, he has not been a collegiate head coach and he has not had championship-level success as a defensive coordinator. DeBoer’s opinion was to have him be a special teams coordinator and a position coach; he had to leave DeBoer’s staff to get another DC opportunity. 
 

My gut feeling is that Schmidt gets the job and Fruechte gets to stay as offensive coordinator. That likely will mean minimal overall change for UND, and we are left with the same cultural limitations, but we will see … 

Would prefer someone with head coaching success, such as Baldwin or Bolte. 
 

Despite saying we should go with the best candidate, many fans, as evidenced by opinions on here, want to simply hire someone they’re familiar with. This will limit the ceiling of the program.

[gfhockey]

Didn’t it say bubba was going to be hc until we found someone? Wonder what chNged

that was the original release

[shep]

15 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Didn’t it say bubba was going to be hc until we found someone? Wonder what chNged

that was the original release

You should know…tell us

[jdub27]

13 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Would prefer someone with head coaching success, such as Baldwin or Bolte. 

So you're choices are someone who's in their 50's, his best years were a decade ago and has struggled since or someone who has been at the same place since before any current players were even born (2000, which is honestly unreal in a multiple of ways). 

Again, both are worth consideration but they sure aren't hitting your self imposed criteria of up and comers or someone who is moving up the ranks quickly and would look to do the same at UND. 

[AJS]

How’s Schmidt as a recruiter? Still would prefer a Johanes as HC with Fruechte as OC, but warming up to Schmidt with Fruechte.

Imo, what’s been missing is swagger, a confidence with the program. I’m more excited with the thought of those combos than I would be with Baldwin.

[sioux24/7]

Naming Fruechte as interim smells like the job is Schmidt’s and he’s keeping Fruechte onboard. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

Just now, sioux24/7 said:

Naming Fruechte as interim smells like the job is Schmidt’s and he’s keeping Fruechte onboard. 

Exactly.