New hockey coach

[SIOUXELEVENS]

If Berry leaves on his own or gets axed who would be the best choice to replace him? I think we need a young aggressive coach who need to plays a different style. 

[fightingsioux4life]

This cannot be allowed to go on until we are back to 1993-94 territory. 

[brianvf]

When Karl was added to the staff, I thought he was going to be the heir apparent to the Berry throne.
But I'm not sure if Karl would be the best choice to motivate the players...would it just be more of the same that we're seeing now?

I know others have mentioned wanting to go outside the UND family, which I'd be fine with if the candidate is right.  Just look at Blais.

But if they stick with UND pedigree, I think that Matt Smaby could be a contender.  He's only 40 and has been named the head coach for US WJAC on top of his USHL coaching.  Could be a Carle-like pipeline for the kids that play on that team.

[SIOUXELEVENS]

Smaby or St. Claire or outside the UND family 

[UNDhoops]

I know I’m pretty much done watching until there is a new coach. If they make the tournament I’ll watch then but other than that who cares. They look like they do not care at all. 

[tnt]

How about Garrett Raboin.  Better record than us in year 2, and his teams actually have a work ethic culture. 

[Bleedn Green]

The coach's job is  to get players to play to their maximum potential and to put players in a position for success.  I see no drive! no sense of urgency! They are just going through the motions.  I can't believe the coaching staff is not embarrassed of the product they are putting on the ice.  

[SIOUXELEVENS]

Berry was proud of their effort tonight , WTF!

[Pump It Up]

5 minutes ago, tnt said:

How about Garrett Raboin.  Better record than us in year 2, and his teams actually have a work ethic culture. 

I was just going to come here to post this. He’d be perfect. 

[SIOUXELEVENS]

5 minutes ago, tnt said:

How about Garrett Raboin.  Better record than us in year 2, and his teams actually have a work ethic culture. 

Raboin would be a good one. 

[tnt]

All I know is that Minnesota held on to Don Lucia to the point where they couldn’t beat another team in Minnesota, and now they look on pace to being in contention for a title for the 5th straight year.

[Pump It Up]

Raboin is fascinating to me because he’s a straight winner, young guy, from Detroit Lakes. He could be to UND what Carle is to Denver.

I'd prefer SCSU lock him up to a lifetime contract but Larson has been too good to move on from. 

[Big A HG]

Nick Saban.  Most of this team's flaws he can fix without knowing a thing about hockey.

[UNDhoops]

17 minutes ago, Bleedn Green said:

The coach's job is  to get players to play to their maximum potential and to put players in a position for success.  I see no drive! no sense of urgency! They are just going through the motions.  I can't believe the coaching staff is not embarrassed of the product they are putting on the ice.  

Berry doesn’t need to care considering he can miss the tournament and they’ll still bring him back. 

[gfhockey]

Raboin I’d next carle 

[SIOUXELEVENS]

At the end of the day it comes down to wins and losses 

#culture

[siouxweet]

Unfortunately we can have this conversation all year long but as long as Chaves is the AD Berry isn't going anywhere until his contract is up.

[sioux rube]

5 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

Unfortunately we can have this conversation all year long but as long as Chaves is the AD Berry isn't going anywhere until his contract is up.

Sadly you are correct 

[SIOUXELEVENS]

If Berry cares so much for the program then he shouldn’t run it into the ground before making a change 

[Brett0909]

16 hours ago, tnt said:

All I know is that Minnesota held on to Don Lucia to the point where they couldn’t beat another team in Minnesota, and now they look on pace to being in contention for a title for the 5th straight year.

This. Every team in similar coaching situations needing to decide if occasional flashes or selective success are good enough, ultimately comes out stronger when they finally cut the anchor/HC. You can wait forever hoping for a different outcome, or just do the hard part of the business and make the call before it’s too late. Lucia, Berenson, York, etc. All major teams with HCs who had historical success that kept them around past their time to move on (more success than Berry). And that’s not counting teams like DU who lose a top tier coach like Monty and still uplevel after. UND athletics continues to have no urgency and cater to local politics, and it shows across the board with every sport having year after year of disappointment. Hockey lasted longer than most and deflected attention away from the even bigger issues in every other sport, but is sliding into mediocrity. Seriously, 1 win in the playoffs after his rookie season and now being outclassed by RMU and BSU with what should be a stacked team (minus injury issues). ?!?! It’s embarrassing to say the least. 

And for anyone who needs to hear it, this isn’t a recent overreaction. I didn’t like the hire, hoped I was wrong after his first year, and have been underwhelmed every year since. But he seems to have completely lost control at this point. 

[tnt]

12 minutes ago, Brett0909 said:

This. Every team in similar coaching situations needing to decide if occasional flashes or selective success are good enough, ultimately comes out stronger when they finally cut the anchor/HC. You can wait forever hoping for a different outcome, or just do the hard part of the business and make the call before it’s too late. Lucia, Berenson, York, etc. All major teams with HCs who had historical success that kept them around past their time to move on (more success than Berry). And that’s not counting teams like DU who lose a top tier coach like Monty and still uplevel after. UND athletics continues to have no urgency and cater to local politics, and it shows across the board with every sport having year after year of disappointment. Hockey lasted longer than most and deflected attention away from the even bigger issues in every other sport, but is sliding into mediocrity. Seriously, 1 win in the playoffs after his rookie season and now being outclassed by RMU and BU with what should be a stacked team (minus injury issues). ?!?! It’s embarrassing to say the least. 

And for anyone who needs to hear it, this isn’t a recent overreaction. I didn’t like the hire, hoped I was wrong after his first year, and have been underwhelmed every year since. But he seems to have completely lost control at this point. 

Hopefully they can still turn around this season, but if they don’t, after the championship year they will have made the tourney 5 times with a single win against AIC, and missed the tourney 4 times. (Giving credit for a tourney in Covid year). A little better than 50% wouldn’t be horrible if you took advantage a few times.  Not making that run has opened up the recruiting of top players to numerous more teams.

[The Sicatoka]

@nodak651, what is left on Berry’s contract? 

[fightingsioux4life]

34 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

Unfortunately we can have this conversation all year long but as long as Chaves is the AD Berry isn't going anywhere until his contract is up.

That's what was being said about Bubba until this afternoon.

[Big A HG]

NCAA Tourney wins each year since it was a 16 team field.

[MafiaMan]

19 minutes ago, Big A HG said:

NCAA Tourney wins each year since it was a 16 team field.

But I was told “parity” was the reason for this.