Who would UND hire?

[Cratter]

Took NDSU 3 days to hire a new coach:

Dec 10 to Dec 13

[Cratter]

Hakstol leaves.

Brad Berry hired as head coach

Time between events?

4 hours!

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Hakstol will be replaced by Berry, who was introduced as UND’s 16th head coach at a news conference just four hours after Philadelphia announced Hakstol’s hire.

 

[Siouxperman8]

6 hours ago, F'n Hawks said:

Was there an interim coach when Muss was fired?

From the Herald at that time. 

“Strength coach Nate Baukol will be the point person at Memorial Stadium until a new coach is hired.”

[MinnDak]

How was the offense against the good teams? How did the spunky experiment work out? There is 5 coaches that stood by each other this season and didn’t do one thing or call out one thing during 7 game implosion. None of those 4 should even be a consideration. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

2 hours ago, MinnDak said:

How was the offense against the good teams? How did the spunky experiment work out? There is 5 coaches that stood by each other this season and didn’t do one thing or call out one thing during 7 game implosion. None of those 4 should even be a consideration. 

The entire staff should take responsibility for the 2024 implosion and 5-game losing streak (that includes the popular interim head coach and recent OC Isaac Fruechte). Next head coach should be and needs to be someone external and without previous UND ties, but I’m feeling unsure that will be the case, unfortunately.

[gfhockey]

8 hours ago, Cratter said:

Fruechte and Mussmans credentials are pretty similar:

Played ball at Big Ten school

OC at a MN d2 school

Right Before joining UND as OC.

Will the next chapter be the same?

UND OC directly to UND Head Coach in their 30s?

Did t no mussman played nfl ball

[gundy1124]

If an outsider with no UND ties fails I can't wait to lead the charge of "He knew nothing about how things work at UND and in Grand Forks."  It's getting a little silly at this point that if you had a first cousin visit North Dakota in their childhood that disqualifies a candidate.

[The Sicatoka]

The Saturday release had Chaves and Bubba on Monday at 1 pm. 

They added Fruechte after he was named interim. 

With signing day Dec 4 and the portal opening on Dec 9 they needed a interim. 

I see no grand conspiracy. 

[The Sicatoka]

3 minutes ago, gundy1124 said:

If an outsider with no UND ties fails I can't wait to lead the charge of "He knew nothing about how things work at UND and in Grand Forks."  It's getting a little silly at this point that if you had a first cousin visit North Dakota in their childhood that disqualifies a candidate.

If you can find North Dakota on a map -> DQ'd 

If you think Mt Rushmore is in ND -> top of stack 

[UNDBIZ]

10 hours ago, F'n Hawks said:

Was there an interim coach when Muss was fired?

I don't think he was ever named interim HC, but Freund was retained from that staff during the HC hiring process to try to keep the class and team together.

[UNDBIZ]

9 hours ago, Cratter said:

Took NDSU a week to announce Entz was leaving to announcing a new coach.

UND can go the route when Muss was fired and do a long drawn out process and make Chuck the pigskin guy national news again...

Or go the NDSU route and announce Fruechte as coach tomorrow.

Which will it be?

Place your bets!

I believe they had the state hiring laws changed after that embarrassment, so UND only has to disclose the top 3 applicants after the application process closes.  Still not sure how NDSU hired Polasek (an external hire) so quickly without opening the position up for applications.

[Cratter]

Bubba is gonna be sipping his coffee on the terrace of the IPF every Monday morning next year watching the football team practice.

Bubba would have made the perfect "interim head coach."

[UND-FB-FAN]

25 minutes ago, gundy1124 said:

If an outsider with no UND ties fails I can't wait to lead the charge of "He knew nothing about how things work at UND and in Grand Forks."  It's getting a little silly at this point that if you had a first cousin visit North Dakota in their childhood that disqualifies a candidate.

I definitely understand your point, but in the past, UND connection it seems was preference over other prospects and considerations. Nobody wants that to happen again, especially since we missed on Kalen DeBoer. 
 

i’m quite confident this is going to head the direction of Eric Schmidt, but we’ll see who is interested and the degree of completeness the athletic department actually does with this “national search”. 

[homer]

13 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:

I believe they had the state hiring laws changed after that embarrassment, so UND only has to disclose the top 3 applicants after the application process closes.  Still not sure how NDSU hired Polasek (an external hire) so quickly without opening the position up for applications.

Hopefully UND did their homework and follows that example.  
 

The only thing that slowed that down even a little was the players wanting Roehl.  The booster $$$ was all in on Polasek and the AD really didn’t have any say.  Regardless of what some on this board will tell you the boosters even call the shots at places other than Grand Forks. 

[homer]

3 minutes ago, Cratter said:

Bubba is gonna be sipping his coffee on the terrace of the IPF every Monday morning next year watching the football team practice.

Bubba would have made the perfect "interim head coach."

If you are cutting ties with a coach….why keep him around.  Little value in that other than any optics.  

[90siouxfan]

3 minutes ago, homer said:

If you are cutting ties with a coach….why keep him around.  Little value in that other than any optics.  

I suspect it is a maneuver to reduce the buyout of an outright firing, Bubba has value, just not at the FCS head coach level. 

[iramurphy]

4 hours ago, MinnDak said:

How was the offense against the good teams? How did the spunky experiment work out? There is 5 coaches that stood by each other this season and didn’t do one thing or call out one thing during 7 game implosion. None of those 4 should even be a consideration. 

I’m not sure how you know that none of those coaches “didn’t do one thing or call  out one thing”.  

Those are discussions, that can get pretty heated sometimes, occur in staff meetings.   Players get those messages in the film room all of the time. They also get those messages in group meetings with position coaches or private meetings with one of the coaches. 
 

I don’t know who on the staff should or shouldn’t receive consideration moving forward, if any.  Fortunately, those decisions are up to the new HC.  

 

[The Sicatoka]

10 minutes ago, 90siouxfan said:

I suspect it is a maneuver to reduce the buyout of an outright firing, Bubba has value, just not at the FCS head coach level. 

I suspect it's the middle ground between a lot of options. 

[gundy1124]

31 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:

I believe they had the state hiring laws changed after that embarrassment, so UND only has to disclose the top 3 applicants after the application process closes.  Still not sure how NDSU hired Polasek (an external hire) so quickly without opening the position up for applications.

The reality in college football is a week today is equal to a month 11 years ago.  Signing day (4th) and portal opening (9th) during a once in a lifetime year of FBS roster cap of 105 players makes the timing of the new HC at UND paramount.  The longer the process the deeper the hole I believe.  If Chaves is thumbing his way through a 6-week process he should be removed.  If Chaves has most of the leg work done and takes a week or less I am good with that. 

[iramurphy]

1 hour ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

The entire staff should take responsibility for the 2024 implosion and 5-game losing streak (that includes the popular interim head coach and recent OC Isaac Fruechte). Next head coach should be and needs to be someone external and without previous UND ties, but I’m feeling unsure that will be the case, unfortunately.

Then we could miss the next “DeBoer”.  The next head coach needs to be the best person for the job regardless of what schools he has played or coached at. 
 

Fortunately, no one with that philosophy will be making the decision. 

[siouxkid12]

19 minutes ago, 90siouxfan said:

I suspect it is a maneuver to reduce the buyout of an outright firing, Bubba has value, just not at the FCS head coach level. 

Yes, Bubba does have a lot of value to this university, and I am glad they are keeping him on board.

[AJS]

Here's what I truly believe. When it comes to the following factors, campus, facilities, city (campus lifestyle), opportunities (FCOA, NIL, ect). There is nothing where UND lacks compared to the other "peer" schools. Phase II being completed shortly will close the gab completely facilities wise. Very simply put, starting now, there's no reason that the right hire couldn't make UND, "the spot to be".

I wrote about this last night. Swagger, confidence are two of the main traits I'm looking for. Recruiting / Recruiting / Recruiting. I have no doubt, a new, younger voice with those traits and the new facilities can cause a recruiting boom. Confidence. I looked at too many situations last year, where I'm convinced if you had someone leading the team that had those traits, things would have gone differently. It was so clearly mental, it was crazy. 

This is a different era. If Freuchte or Schmidt are open to really evaluating the defensive side of the ball. Blowing it up. Then that means so much more than their ties to Bubba. 

Let's get excited. 

[Hawkster]

11 hours ago, F'n Hawks said:

Was there an interim coach when Muss was fired?

I don't know, but I do know that Mussman was hired by the interim AD after Buning was asked to leave and it showed.   Don't rush it and get the wrong person again.

[gfhockey]

Form what I’ve heard fruechte is next deboer or the Kansas coach 

[UND92,96]

I think Bolte and Johansen would both be excellent candidates. But the more I think about it, I would also be pretty excited with a Schmidt hire, as nobody could have predicted he'd potentially be available less than one year ago. A relatively young coach from ND, with very recent experience coaching in the FBS national championship game under one of the biggest name coaches in the country, who was a great player at UND, and who presumably would have a lot of connections that could lead to portal additions, seems almost too good to be true in my opinion.