Search for a New Head Coach

[UND1983]

9 minutes ago, TwamleyShuffle said:

Schloss makes the comment that UND just fired the most successful coach on campus. Which in my opinion says more about athletics as a whole. If your best coach gets fired what does that have to say about the rest of them 

Correct

[tnt]

2 hours ago, AJS said:

Looks like the new coach is going to have to win over Schlossman. He’s throwing a fit like we haven’t seen since women’s hockey was dropped.

Chaves looked at the numbers when Schlossman used to keep track of the record in the business suits under Hakstol, then had to go back and figure manually when Schlossman quit keeping track of it under Berry and decided 90% was a whole lot better than 50%, so actually it is Schlossman's fault.   Nevermind the revenues lost in home ice playoffs, regionals, and fan apathy.  He should be excited for a new coach, because it might create more excitement like it did for the football program and fan excitement is better for the Grand Forks Herald.  I know I had been getting sick of reading one dimensional reporting. 

[NoDak Hockey Nation]

13 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

3 if you want to count Sioux Falls 

Omaha was the host

[tnt]

2 minutes ago, NoDak Hockey Nation said:

Omaha was the host

Last year, not the time before in Sioux Falls. 

[cberkas]

17 minutes ago, NoDak Hockey Nation said:

Omaha was the host

UND hosted in Sioux Falls a year they missed the tournament 

[tnt]

Someone should ask Schlossman how much longer Minnesota should have gone on with Lucia, as he had a winning record.   To be fair to Schlossman I am sure it is a whole lot easier to do interviews after losses with Berry than it was under Hakstol, because one was an intense competitor and probably a little ornery, and one just had the aww shucks we lost attitude. 

[Sweethockey]

2 minutes ago, cberkas said:

UND hoisted in Sioux Falls a year they missed the tournament 

I was there. St Cloud fans were holding up signs “ Where’s UND?”. I was so happy when they got beat.

[siouxweet]

Wondering if Schlossman cried himself to sleep last night, I think he is taking this harder than Berry is.

[yzerman19]

what about Tim Skarperud?  

[tnt]

10 minutes ago, cberkas said:

UND hoisted in Sioux Falls a year they missed the tournament 

Actually, UND hasn't hoisted since Berry's first year, which is the problem. 

[Wilbur]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

Since @brianvf locked up the Fire Berry thread I had to screenshot this with credit to @Big A HG

IMO this and only this needed to be the reason for the change.

Schloss can go on and on about other points but this is not what this university's flagship sport should look like over the past decade. Zero reasons this team should not be one of 16 teams in the NCAAs every year. One NCAA win in the last 9 seasons. Once again UND fans will roll into Scheels this week for a regional only to watch four teams that doesn't include UND. Not to mention more empty seats in the Ralph nightly than I've seen in any year past plus the student section chanting "Fire Berry" on multiple nights.

You got outshot 17-rip by the 30th ranked team in the pairwise rankings in a season on the line weekend 3rd period.  

We've never been further away from the top teams in the nation as witnessed Friday night against WMU.  It took sensational goaltending to keep us close, and we still lost.  

The University bid regionals to help you get to the Frozen Four....you took advantage of that 0 times.  

He's a great person, salt of the earth I've heard over and over again, which is all 100% true.  It's still time to go another direction.  

[CMSioux]

Showing my age here but history shows that the media (and especially the GF Herald) thought hiring Gino was an epic mistake. Look it up. 

[tnt]

Notice Schlossman didn't mention all of the firsts under Berry that show the program slipping in stature, much like under Lucia where his record against his fellow Minnesota teams was brutal, especially with their recruiting advantages. 

[iluvdebbies]

Is Brad Berry still out, or is he back in after the Herald articles. Trying to decide if I should be triggered too?

[cberkas]

1 minute ago, tnt said:

Notice Schlossman didn't mention all of the firsts under Berry that show the program slipping in stature!

A lot of “they just lost in OT”

[CMSioux]

38 minutes ago, TwamleyShuffle said:

Schloss makes the comment that UND just fired the most successful coach on campus. Which in my opinion says more about athletics as a whole. If your best coach gets fired what does that have to say about the rest of them 

IMO if any of the other sports had the resources and funding of hockey they would be much more successful. 

[Oxbow6]

2 minutes ago, cberkas said:

A lot of “they just lost in OT”

If only they had Dman that could stay healthy was the actual summary.

[tnt]

Hey, I used some of the same arguments Schlossman was making defending Berry for years, but one has to ask Schlossman the question, how long could that chart that Oxbow referenced go on before it became a problem and not just "unlucky" in his eyes?  When you see the fanbase slipping into apathy and not watching games, that seems the time to, like Barney Fife would say, "Nip it in the Bud"!

[Oxbow6]

2 minutes ago, CMSioux said:

IMO if any of the other sports had the resources and funding of hockey they would be much more successful. 

Some here says kids don't want to come to UND for hockey like they used to. If that truly is the case tough to expect chippaz to come here for MBB, WBB and FB. It's all about recruiting and retention.

[nascar99]

2 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

Some here says kids don't want to come to UND for hockey like they used to. If that truly is the case tough to expect chippaz to come here for MBB, WBB and FB. It's all about recruiting and retention.

A lot of the top CHLers will definitely have UND near the top of their list simply because of the program's history/reputation for developing NHLers (especially Canadians). But the development part got worse under Berry, and if @yzerman19 is right about the top 2010s not considering UND, that's concerning and you gotta get the new head coach right in order to get the program back to the top quickly.

[yzerman19]

I would much rather have a super talented group that the coach gets to buy-in and work hard and build over the course of the season into a complete hockey team, than a bunch of try hards with the lunch pail attitude who can't hit water falling out of a boat.  I realize it isn't easy to get talented guys to play a role necessarily, tht's part of the art of coaching and what we need.  Don't recruit 4th liners to play 4th line.  Recruit first liners that accept they gotta play 3rd line because they have Oshie and Toews in front of them.

[Oxbow6]

3 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

I would much rather have a super talented group that the coach gets to buy-in and work hard and build over the course of the season into a complete hockey team, than a bunch of try hards with the lunch pail attitude who can't hit water falling out of a boat.  I realize it isn't easy to get talented guys to play a role necessarily, tht's part of the art of coaching and what we need.  Don't recruit 4th liners to play 4th line.  Recruit first liners that accept they gotta play 3rd line because they have Oshie and Toews in front of them.

Chippaz >>> Grindaz

[tnt]

16 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

If only they had Dman that could stay healthy was the actual summary.

Like Schlossman didn't hear the "next man up" culture that Berry preached. 

[tnt]

I wonder if any of Boisvert, Perron, Livanavage or James leave, if Schlossman will put it on the coaching change rather than it might not have happened period if the team wasn't so dysfunctional. 

[Puck Off]

As the goalie goes, so goes UND Hockey, build from the net out.