Who would UND hire?

[Siouxperman8]

3 hours ago, UND92,96 said:

I realize there are several important differences in the two eras, such as the state of the program when they took over, but it's nevertheless interesting that Bubba's current winning percentage after nearly 11 full seasons (.559) is actually lower than what Pat Behrns' was at the time he was fired at the end of his sixth season (.571). Behrns was 8-3 in this second-to-last season, but followed that up with a 3-8 record in his final season, with an embarrassing 49-0 loss to NDSU to end the season, and that was enough to send him packing. But then again I'm sure Behrns didn't have three years left on his contract at the time.

Looking back, what's amazing is we were 7-3 in '82 and 8-3 in '84 and that wasn't good enough to make the playoffs.  You had to be top 8 in the poll to make it.  In '82 we were tied for 8th in the poll with N Mich and played them at their place in last game of the season.  Winner moved on and loser was done.  We lost like 30-6 or something  

[Siouxperman8]

1 hour ago, iramurphy said:

Behrns was an interesting guy. He was a great recruiter. His assistants at the time didn’t have a lot of D2 experience. UND recruited a number of very good skill players (Willis Jacob, Tracy Martin, Milsen Jones) and won recruiting battles against NDSU.  They recruited a number of D3 guys that looked great on paper especially linemen who couldn’t move. I thought Dave Olson and Richman were pretty good coaches but we just didn’t have the team talent or depth. Tom Clifford used to stop in my office now and then while he was waiting for George Schubert to play handball. We had a conversation about our FB struggles and I brought that up. (I also told Pat the same thing after he was let go and he agreed). More than anything, Behrns had lost to the Bison every year after his initial win. 
After UND he was an assistant at Utah State and eventually HC at UNO where he had some very good teams. 

Having lived through the Behrns regime and looking back I think he was just too young and/or inexperienced for the job.  He was 30 when he took over.   He was a micromanager and wouldn't let his assistants run their position groups.  We had mostly good assistants when he started but they all left.  Richman and Olson came in the second wave and were good coaches along with a couple more but there were definitely some guys in over their heads. 

From the time I started to when I finished 4 years later, Pat was the only one left on the staff.  That includes assistant coaches and athletic trainers.  All gone.

[gundy1124]

1 hour ago, AJS said:

Bubba has lost the program, completely. Everyone knows it. The ceiling next year will be .500, but that seems unlikely. We can talk in absolutes. Burn the program to the ground, Bubba!

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