Fire Berry Please!

[JacksonW]

3 minutes ago, TrueSioux2000 said:

And trust me, I’ll take Grand Forks over Hamden 10/10 times. Not even close. 

1:45 minute drive from Manhattan 

[siouxweet]

6 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:

Quinnipiac is a small, private school in Connecticut. And yet, they have national success. With a fraction of the resources we have.

QU doesn’t get the blue chippers which would send people through the roof here.

[siouxforce19]

5 minutes ago, JacksonW said:

1:45 minute drive from Manhattan 

No one sane is driving to Manhattan. Take the train, sure. But that’s a much longer trip. 

[scpa0305]

6 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:

So it's "plucky little mid major" time? Sorry, not in this or any other lifetime.

Talent is not the problem with this team. How they perform in March is.

I don’t really like how they’re performing in Oct/Nov  

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

1 hour ago, siouxweet said:

QU doesn’t get the blue chippers which would send people through the roof here.

Q gets our underperforming draft pick D men out of the portal.

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

1 hour ago, JacksonW said:

1:45 minute drive from Manhattan 

Easy trip in case they get a craving!

[UNDBIZ]

[TrueSioux2000]

22 hours ago, JacksonW said:

1:45 minute drive from Manhattan 

If you're into that kinda thing

[Big A HG]

 

When the mods quote me in ten years that I wanted Berry gone...here's your proof!  Bookmark it.

[SIOUXELEVENS]

I believe Berry is an awesome dude , great guy to be around etc etc he just is not a great head hockey coach. 

[.357]

2 hours ago, SIOUXELEVENS said:

I believe Berry is an awesome dude , great guy to be around etc etc he just is not a great head hockey coach. 

There's something not quite right when your team has played 6 games, & they go to Cornell, who had only played 1 exhibition game at that point, & it takes them 30 minutes before they start trying. Where was the energy from the BU series? They should have been all over Cornell to take advantage of any rustiness they may have had, but they let that golden opportunity slip by. Valuable PWR points lost. Now we're in a position where we would do well to sweep UMD & at least split DU to avoid digging an even deeper hole & sinking in the PWR even more.

And this happens quite often. The players come & go, but the core coaching staff remains. It appears that Berry either isn't preparing or motivating his players well enough. It's up to the coach to ensure that his players come to play every night; if you're making close to $500k/year you should be able to do at least that.

It's sloppy, half-hearted performances like that that will get them bounced out of the NCAA tourney before it even begins. The HC position should be reviewed every 8-10 years to gauge the success of the program with standards like: ls the team consistently doing well in the regular season? Are they consistently making & doing well in the playoffs? If a program doesn't have a structured timeline in which these expectations should be met, then these same rinse & repeat outcomes could last for 10-20 years.   

[siouxkid12]

50 minutes ago, .357 said:

There's something not quite right when your team has played 6 games, & they go to Cornell, who had only played 1 exhibition game at that point, & it takes them 30 minutes before they start trying. Where was the energy from the BU series? They should have been all over Cornell to take advantage of any rustiness they may have had, but they let that golden opportunity slip by. Valuable PWR points lost. Now we're in a position where we would do well to sweep UMD & at least split DU to avoid digging an even deeper hole & sinking in the PWR even more.

And this happens quite often. The players come & go, but the core coaching staff remains. It appears that Berry either isn't preparing or motivating his players well enough. It's up to the coach to ensure that his players come to play every night; if you're making close to $500k/year you should be able to do at least that.

It's sloppy, half-hearted performances like that that will get them bounced out of the NCAA tourney before it even begins. The HC position should be reviewed every 8-10 years to gauge the success of the program with standards like: ls the team consistently doing well in the regular season? Are they consistently making & doing well in the playoffs? If a program doesn't have a structured timeline in which these expectations should be met, then these same rinse & repeat outcomes could last for 10-20 years.   

Could you please stop critizing Berry? He is the greatest coach UND has ever seen and you have no idea what its like to coach. Also, any program would love to have our record the last 9 years with Berry at the helm. We just need to be patient with these young players and let them learn how to play with one another and then once the 2nd half start we will turn it on because we are a 2nd half team. If they could wear the business suites every game we would be undefeated.

[Irish]

1 hour ago, siouxkid12 said:

Could you please stop critizing Berry? He is the greatest coach UND has ever seen and you have no idea what its like to coach. Also, any program would love to have our record the last 9 years with Berry at the helm. We just need to be patient with these young players and let them learn how to play with one another and then once the 2nd half start we will turn it on because we are a 2nd half team. If they could wear the business suites every game we would be undefeated.

Really? - Berry's needs to get a team to play the full 60 every game.  We often take time to coast and lose focus - this is a huge problem - see last year's regionals where for some reason we didn't come out of the locker room to start the 3rd.  His record in regionals is pathetic.