Fire Berry Please!

[90siouxfan]

11 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:

I don’t think he is though.  We treat Penrose Cups like they’re the ultimate crowning achievement lately.  At some point, 1 NCAA tournament win since 2016 is going to become too hard to overlook.  My guess is even hardcore Berry supporters will finally lose their patience when the 2025-2026 season ends without a UND post-season win.  

Who is we?  You got a turd in your pocket or something? 

 

 JK, the talking heads, schloss, Heinert, etc.  You know, the dudes that are paid cheerleaders or depend on arse kissing for access are the only people touting the Penrose as all important. 

[Blackheart]

16 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:

I don’t think he is though.  We treat Penrose Cups like they’re the ultimate crowning achievement lately.  At some point, 1 NCAA tournament win since 2016 is going to become too hard to overlook.  My guess is even hardcore Berry supporters will finally lose their patience when the 2025-2026 season ends without a UND post-season win.  

So you’re saying we win the Penrose again this year?  Sweet!

[MafiaMan]

44 minutes ago, Blackheart said:

So you’re saying we win the Penrose again this year?  Sweet!

SIX TIMES, BABY!  

[AJS]

1 hour ago, MafiaMan said:

I don’t think he is though.  We treat Penrose Cups like they’re the ultimate crowning achievement lately.  At some point, 1 NCAA tournament win since 2016 is going to become too hard to overlook.  My guess is even hardcore Berry supporters will finally lose their patience when the 2025-2026 season ends without a UND post-season win.  

I think he is. NCAAs or bust for Berry. Doesn’t matter if he loses again first round, if this team makes the tourney he’s safe. I was confident that was the case with Bubba this past year, I’m confident as well with Berry. 

[MafiaMan]

22 minutes ago, AJS said:

I think he is. NCAAs or bust for Berry. Doesn’t matter if he loses again first round, if this team makes the tourney he’s safe. I was confident that was the case with Bubba this past year, I’m confident as well with Berry. 

Really?  You think the good ol’ boy network at UND has the guts to push Berry aside if the team doesn’t make the NCAA’s?   Hell, they barely felt it was time to cut Bubba lose from the football program!

[SIOUXELEVENS]

I believe Berry is a great guy, bleeds Kelly green but just not a good head coach, results prove it. 

[AJS]

5 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:

Really?  You think the good ol’ boy network at UND has the guts to push Berry aside if the team doesn’t make the NCAA’s?   Hell, they barely felt it was time to cut Bubba lose from the football program!

Yes - his current contract is through the 2025-2026 season. Where’s his extension? It’s not coming if he misses the NCAAs this year. He’s out. There’s a very clear feeling surrounding the hockey program as there was the football program. There’s always a tipping point. Bubba’s was losing five in a row. Berry’s would be missing the NCAAs this year. It’s not one season, like you said, it’s his entire body of work. 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

Finally came around. Hopefully Zellers doesn't bail if we get our wish.

[Irish]

1 hour ago, AJS said:

Yes - his current contract is through the 2025-2026 season. Where’s his extension? It’s not coming if he misses the NCAAs this year. He’s out. There’s a very clear feeling surrounding the hockey program as there was the football program. There’s always a tipping point. Bubba’s was losing five in a row. Berry’s would be missing the NCAAs this year. It’s not one season, like you said, it’s his entire body of work. 

What stuns me about Berry's body of work is his total inability to get his teams prepared and fired up for important games.  The performance we saw last night typifies what we see time and time again in big games - no intensity, not playing for all 60, sloppy passing, and lapses in concentration.  If this was just one year I could understand it but it is a constant for Barry and Staff.  Time to make a wholesale change - what we see is so far from Sioux hockey it is almost unbelievable.  

[90siouxfan]

I like nattys 

I like frozen fours

I like playoffs

I like wins

 

What I don't like is watching the floundering inept soft play that makes it look like they don't belong on the ice.

 

I think Berry is a good coach, a great coach if the word suits your definition,  but a coach that can take the program where it needs to go?   Nope.

[SiouxFan100]

UND tends to let coaches overstay their welcome. Hurts me to say.

[fightingsioux4life]

19 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:

UND tends to let coaches overstay their welcome. Hurts me to say.

Chaves needs to go, he gives out contract extensions like candy at Halloween.

Armacost may have to step in again and make another needed change.

[dden3]

1 hour ago, Irish said:

What stuns me about Berry's body of work is his total inability to get his teams prepared and fired up for important games.  The performance we saw last night typifies what we see time and time again in big games - no intensity, not playing for all 60, sloppy passing, and lapses in concentration.  If this was just one year I could understand it but it is a constant for Barry and Staff.  Time to make a wholesale change - what we see is so far from Sioux hockey it is almost unbelievable.  

Our guys look like they are in a Learn To Skate class compared to ASU and DU skaters. 

[sioux24/7]

If Berry is let go, who comes in? Will it actually be better? Nick Fohr comes to mind to get the USNDTP pipeline. 

[90siouxfan]

Do we have a skating coach, I recall someone mentioning a lady that used to fix up the boys.

[Blackheart]

5 minutes ago, 90siouxfan said:

Do we have a skating coach, I recall someone mentioning a lady that used to fix up the boys.

Nancy Burgraff?

[The Sicatoka]

22 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said:

If Berry is let go, who comes in? Will it actually be better? Nick Fohr comes to mind to get the USNDTP pipeline. 

Smaby coached the US U19s.

[SIOUXELEVENS]

Let’s start a list. 
Smaby 

Fohr

Raboin 

St. Clair 

 

 

[fightingsioux4life]

38 minutes ago, SIOUXELEVENS said:

Let’s start a list. 
Smaby 

Fohr

Raboin 

St. Clair 

All solid choices.

[datameisterq]

It amazes me how people north of the Mason-Dixon line can even debate whether Berry should be fired. I was at the Bison game in Frisco, talking with an SMU law school student who mentioned how nice and fun it was to hang out and party with people from "up North." Stop it! Get pissed off, find the root cause of failure, and eliminate it. 

You have the greatest hockey arena in the world, and you can't hang a National Title banner every four or five years?

As Mean Gene Okerlund would say, "Referee, give me a break!"

[dden3]

1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said:

All solid choices.

Aaron Schneekloth HC of AHL Colorado Eagles

[fightingsioux4life]

7 minutes ago, datameisterq said:

It amazes me how people north of the Mason-Dixon line can even debate whether Berry should be fired. I was at the Bison game in Frisco, talking with an SMU law school student who mentioned how nice and fun it was to hang out and party with people from "up North." Stop it! Get pissed off, find the root cause of failure, and eliminate it. 

You have the greatest hockey arena in the world, and you can't hang a National Title banner every four or five years?

As Mean Gene Okerlund would say, "Referee, give me a break!"

There is no end to the excuses and rationalizations some people in our fan base will use to explain away the problems this program is having right now. I for one aren't buying them.

Agree with you 100%.

[Blackheart]

2 hours ago, SIOUXELEVENS said:

Let’s start a list. 
Smaby 

Fohr

Raboin 

St. Clair 

 

 

Maybe it's time to consider someone outside the Sioux family.

[fightingsioux4life]

5 minutes ago, Blackheart said:

Maybe it's time to consider someone outside the Sioux family.

Those guys have had experiences outside our program, so it isn't exactly "inbreeding".

[siouxweet]

Brad Berry=Mike Eaves