Who would UND hire?

[bincitysioux]

Baldwins name popped to me at first because of all his success at EWU.  I really enjoyed watching Eastern during those years.

I feel like though, his best years could be behind him.  Just too far removed now from those successful years atop the Big Sky.

Of the names openly discussed, I say Caruso & Johansen are the most intriguing to me.

 

[iramurphy]

3 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Experience doesn’t always equate to success. Some young individuals are really successful and some older guys never quite get the job done, etc., etc., etc.

I agree that experience is nice, but I think a history of success is most important. Winners win. It’s an intrinsic quality for some, although some can learn it, sure. In the case of Schmidt and Luke S., they likely have learned new things and made new connections, but why haven’t they shown more success? Same goes for Freund with UND (2011-2023) and Freuchte (2024). 

Based on getting someone who purely knows winning football, that also coincidentally happens to mean getting someone not recently (or ever) associated with UND football in the past. 

Simple answer: It’s complicated. I don’t believe it’s a good idea to ignore potential candidates cuz of UND ties nor because they are older or younger than 40.  I’m not on the selection committee so my opinion is no more important than anyone else’s posting here. I  might opine if I knew who applied but its irrelevant  

 

 

 

[UND-FB-FAN]

19 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

His offenses were not good at Cal. Ranked 45, 92, 86 in the FBS his 3 years there and the bottom of the PAC12. They were the 7th ranked offense the year before he showed up. 

He's a fine candidate (if he's interested) but saying he's had any sort of sustained success in the decade since he left EWU is just not accurate. He has no ties to UND's recruiting footprint and hasn't coached anywhere even remotely close to this area. Those are big red flags. 

He wanted to call plays to expand his resume and turned him down. 

Trying to somehow elevate Schmidt as a better candidate than Baldwin is silly to me.

You’re trying to say a guy who has never been a collegiate head coach, and also someone who has had limited to really no signifiant success as a coordinator, should be considered a better candidate than a guy who has actually won an FCS national championship as a head coach. 
 

I can appreciate the geography concerns, but football is football, whether played in Cheney, Washington, or Grand Forks, North Dakota. 
 

And yes, Schmidt wanted to call plays, and DeBoer (knowing him well) didn’t want to afford him that opportunity. Perhaps logical based on how it went for him in San Diego in 2024.

[UND-FB-FAN]

4 minutes ago, iramurphy said:

Simple answer: It’s complicated. I don’t believe it’s a good idea to ignore potential candidates cuz of UND ties nor because they are older or younger than 40.  I’m not on the selection committee so my opinion is no more important than anyone else’s posting here. I  might opine if I knew who applied but its irrelevant  

 

 

 

It’s definitely complicated, but winners win. Let’s start there, and hopefully Bill, Erik, and Andy do. 

[UND1983]

Stop with Baldwin you clowns. There is a reason he is in Canada trying to hang on

[UND-FB-FAN]

2 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

Stop with Baldwin you clowns. There is a reason he is in Canada trying to hang on

Sure, he knows nothing because he’s in the CFL. Forget about his previous success and connections with Chaves… onward

[Ron Mexico]

Something feels like Scmidt is out or we would be hearing something.

 

So - Fruechte.  Kept that class together - seen it at the pros - looks like a class guy.

 

 

[UND-FB-FAN]

 

5 minutes ago, Ron Mexico said:

Something feels like Scmidt is out or we would be hearing something.

 

So - Fruechte.  Kept that class together - seen it at the pros - looks like a class guy.

 

 

Last time UND elevated their offensive coordinator to head coach (2008) it didn’t work out too great …

Apples to Oranges comparison, sure, but more so just don’t think we should be thinking internal with this critical hire. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

9 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

Stop with Baldwin you clowns. There is a reason he is in Canada trying to hang on

It’s not just me …

 

[SiouxFan100]

Starting to feel more comfortable with  Fruechte As our new head coach. He would take some lumps but I think he and UND would come out ahead after a couple years.

[UND1983]

3 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

It’s not just me …

 

Yep would be sweet for a Bison fan who masquerades as national media.  Sweet bro

[Ron Mexico]

How is it none of us appear to have any connections that can at least give us a few rumours or theories???

 

What r we hearing cormer players, GF guys, friends of friends???

[gfhockey]

54 minutes ago, Shawn-O said:

Dad played ball at UND and now is basically the Wes Rydell of central Wisconsin.  Likely has resources to potentially support the program financially, and could very well be reading this.  
 

But never mind the two crackpots tracking tail numbers right?  

Gotta track em it’s the name of the game

[gfhockey]

4 minutes ago, Ron Mexico said:

How is it none of us appear to have any connections that can at least give us a few rumours or theories???

 

What r we hearing cormer players, GF guys, friends of friends???

Lots of activity with tail numbers

 

chavez rolling up his sleeves and being thoro

[SiouxFan100]

When chavez admits he has no idea how this will play out how can anyone else have any inside information 

[gfhockey]

Just now, SiouxFan100 said:

When chavez admits he has no idea how this will play out how can anyone else have any inside information 

Gotta wait and see who apply then make the calls

 

it still open as of now

[UND-FB-FAN]

20 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

Yep would be sweet for a Bison fan who masquerades as national media.  Sweet bro

Beau Baldwin didn’t do the bizon any favors in the 2010 FCS quarterfinals …

But I agree on the masquerade part.

Tom Miller included his name in the article for good reason; there’s connections. 

Anyways, there’s other good candidates out there, most of them winners as a head coach, and really none of them have been a coach at UND in the past 10 years.

[UND-FB-FAN]

24 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:

Starting to feel more comfortable with  Fruechte As our new head coach. He would take some lumps but I think he and UND would come out ahead after a couple years.

Not too sure on that… who’s he going to hire to fix the mess of a defense?

 Plus his offense had a few duds this year. I agree in that there’s potential since he’s young, but it’s too big of a risk compared to what else is out there and who else likely applied. You just don’t simply hire someone cause their young … 

[SiouxFan100]

No doubt the offensive and defensive coordinators are important. I am assuming that whoever is the head coach that they can find capable assistants. Maybe wrong assumption?

[Nodak78]

6 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Not too sure on that… who’s he going to hire to fix the mess of a defense?

 Plus his offense had a few duds this year. I agree in that there’s potential since he’s young, but it’s too big of a risk compared to what else is out there and who else likely applied. You just don’t simply hire someone cause their young … 

text Issac I'm sure he will tell you his DC.  Will the defense we had the year with slight improvement, Offense moves from 30 points a game to 37.

Baldwin will not be the hire.

[sioux24/7]

Who would Baldwin bring in for defense, if he’s the guy. Everyone’s worried about who so and so will bring in or will they keep the staff in tact but little talk about that side with Baldwin. Pretty confident he would gut it, so that’s likely a positive but do we know who he could bring with him?

[Nodak78]

1 minute ago, sioux24/7 said:

Who would Baldwin bring in for defense, if he’s the guy. Everyone’s worried about who so and so will bring in or will they keep the staff in tact but little talk about that side with Baldwin. Pretty confident he would gut it, so that’s likely a positive but do we know who he could bring with him?

his teams had no defense.

[sioux24/7]

Just now, Nodak78 said:

his teams had no defense.

See I thought that as well but did some digging and they weren’t terrible. Never really anything to talk up but there were some respectable years in there. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

So here all along Chaves hired the right guy last year as his 3rd choice (after Freund and Landry) … who would have known? I’m not buying it, but wouldn’t surprise me if it happens. 

[ND-fan]

I don’t know who next coach is going to be but my guess is Fruechte after signing day with all recruits signed there has to be some confidence number of coaching staff will be here. Chaves is going through motions of looking for new coach but I think this has been decision unless somebody came up to be good to be true. He also agreed to pay existing staff extra month and if they were really going to blow things up they might not have done that. Only other surprise would be if kostich is considered.d for the job. Even if fruechte is the chosen there will be number of coaching changes because I have to believe defense is going to see changes in coaching and somebody like Kostich might move on where he has chance to move up. I expect announcement by Friday.