Search for a New Head Coach

[RhettRingers]

Just now, fightingsioux4life said:

I do think DJ needs to be on a short leash. He's been here 19 years. If there is little to no improvement in the performance of the team two years from now, then it will be back to the drawing board.

Yes, don't lock him up for a long period. Give him a 2 year deal.

[gfhockey]

23 minutes ago, MafiaBoy said:

I'm hearing rumors that my dad is a finalist for the job.  Must be the awesome job he does coaching Red Army broomball that got him noticed by UND administration.

Source?

[Dustin]

2 hours ago, SiouxFanatic said:

Yep, Montgomery turned it around and Carle continued the success.

Not only continued the success, but ramped it up.  Plus 2 gold medals at the WJC with Team USA. unbelievable run he is having. 

[Vegas_Sioux]

6 hours ago, Rebel_Sioux said:

It's mostly due to the student pilots. 

I know I was one of them many moons ago. 

[iluvdebbies]

4 minutes ago, RhettRingers said:

Yes, don't lock him up for a long period. Give him a 2 year deal.

If you're only willing to give him a 2 year deal, he isn't the guy.

[cberkas]

4 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Source?

mG<1-minute 

[Irish]

1 minute ago, fightingsioux4life said:

I do think DJ needs to be on a short leash. He's been here 19 years. If there is little to no improvement in the performance of the team two years from now, then it will be back to the drawing board.

We need to get back to "Fighting Sioux" hockey - not whatever you call the crap we saw this season - continued no look and crappy passes especially in the D zone, the lack of physicality, the patented "third period freeze", and the inability to put together a full 60 minutes of hockey - not to mention crapping the bed against lesser opponents.  If Dane is the guy I hope he can do it although it doesn't seem like he had much influence this year.  And Berry was shocked and amazed when he let go.  It was brutal watching out hockey team this year.  

[.357]

Bill Chaves on Sunday:

"Ladies & gentlemen and members of the press ...

After an exhaustive nationwide search that involved many applicants with esteemed backgrounds, to which I thank you all greatly for showing interest in this highly-regarded position, it gives the University of North Dakota and me great honor to announce the next head hockey coach of this fine institution. Let's all give Mr. Dane Jackson a warm round of applause as he leads this program back to national prominence. Mr. Jackson, the podium is yours... "

[Goon]

What's xhiring for Dane Jackson? 

[gfhockey]

2 minutes ago, .357 said:

Bill Chaves on Sunday:

"Ladies & gentlemen and members of the press ...

After an exhaustive nationwide search that involved many applicants with esteemed backgrounds, to which I thank you all greatly for showing interest in this highly-regarded position, it gives the University of North Dakota and me great honor to announce the next head hockey coach of this fine institution. Let's all give Mr. Dane Jackson a warm round of applause as he leads this program back to national prominence. Mr. Jackson, the podium is yours... "

will that white hair guy be there yelling GO HAWKS

[Cratter]

Eric Schmidt was announced Sunday night....

I'd expect the same.

Dane Jackson announced Sunday night.

[The Sicatoka]

First time I see a UND D standing flatfooted with the puck in the defensive zone I'm done. 

I saw 10 years of that under Berry. (OK, nine; 2016 the D captured and immediately transitioned.)

[78 und grad]

We need positive energy in this discussion. Son of a sailor, i doubt th majority of people think dane jackson is th solution. Do we really think:
+und would pretend to do an exhaustive search for the best coach?
+Then down the road, we find und didnt want to consider many other candidates?
+we find out it was all just a sham Und athletics would never recover from this. We need new blood!!!!  Go sioux!!

[The Sicatoka]

The game has changed.

Generational shift.

[AJS]

Doesn't make sense to me that Jackson is a lock at this point, unless there were no other worthy candidates. Even so, who would be interviewed? Nobody? Only Jackson? The next three days just a giant waste of everyone's time? Logic says they still go elsewhere. 

Edit: Another reason I'm so skeptical is Jackson was really the wire-to-wire favorite? Rumors started as early as Monday that he was the guy. Who started it, Jackson? Every logical reason would say you don't know with the Assistant to the coach who was fired, but he had this locked up right away? Not buying it. 

[dagies]

44 minutes ago, RhettRingers said:

Yes, don't lock him up for a long period. Give him a 2 year deal.

It's worth considering that recruits look at how long a coach will be around when making decisions.  Giving him only a 2 year deal tells recruits it's uncertain if this guy is going to be around half-way through their career.  That's not helpful...

[cberkas]

Just now, dagies said:

It's worth considering that recruits look at how long a coach will be around when making decisions.  Giving him only a 2 year deal tells recruits it's uncertain if this guy is going to be around half-way through their career.  That's not helpful...

Give a 4 year deal where the 4th year is basically an option year. He’s been here for 19 years so he should already know what has to be done. If it’s a new coach not from the staff, 4 or 5 year deal. 

[TNF]

5 minutes ago, dagies said:

It's worth considering that recruits look at how long a coach will be around when making decisions.  Giving him only a 2 year deal tells recruits it's uncertain if this guy is going to be around half-way through their career.  That's not helpful...

Buy-out is the biggest piece to the puzzle. A longer deal is good optics for future commits that this is our guy. The safeguard is a low buy-out so if it doesn’t work out then that doesn’t become a barrier to making a change. 

[Langster019]

2 hours ago, cberkas said:

I happened to venture into the feral lands of college hockey reddit the other day..............

SiouxSports being a talking point over there by a fan base that talks about firing their coaches more than here (Minnesota) and others including ours. On how we are all unreasonable about the coaching change.

Still find it odd how there are fans of UND over there that bring up Sandy and how he was recently but fail to realize he would have been fired after 5 season here. Or how he did he do with less than he would have had here. Well, let's look at other schools: Yale, Union, Providence, UMass, Quinnipiac, and Mankato all don't have what UND has yet they find a way to be in the discussion each year. 

Two things that keep coming up are the 2020 season and the 5 OT game. How UND was going to win a National Title and how unfair the 2021 Fargo Regional Final was unfair. We have no idea if UND would have won the game against Sacred Heart (going by the PWR they would be 16th). Due to Loveland being the closest regional and Denver hosting UND probably would have gotten them in the regional final (all the other regionals were in the east and 3 west teams in the top 4). With Denver being the highest 2 seed, they could have beat UND if the season wasn't cancelled. The 5 OT game against Duluth, it took two @MafiaMan mG<2-minute special goals to tie that game. BC who didn't have to play a first-round game lost in their Regional Final, so the whole unfair argument is dumb. Enough with my off-topic soapbox rant about these two things but the ifs and buts on those two seasons get so old. 

How can we be unreasonable with 1 ncaa win in 8-9 years? It’s not acceptable bc it’s not the norm. 
 

I’d equate that span with Iowa Football. Winning seasons but 8-4, 9-3 trips to the outback bowl. Yippee. Difference is that IS THE NORM or ceiling for that program. UNDs situation currently shouldn’t be the norm bc it wasn’t with previous coaches with history of titles and ncaa successes. 
 

Non Penrose with a run to the FF is better than Penrose and one and done. Penrose is not a big deal in the big picture. Ask DU. 

[Shawn-O]

1 hour ago, RhettRingers said:

Yes, don't lock him up for a long period. Give him a 2 year deal.

And let the future AD handle it, because I’m confident there’ll be one. 

[fightingsioux4life]

13 minutes ago, Shawn-O said:

And let the future AD handle it, because I’m confident there’ll be one. 

I agree with this 100%.

I really hope if they hire Jackson, he works out long-term.

[F'n Hawks]

https://x.com/schlossmangf/status/1905322702686106087?s=46&t=bguC9z3hKd_9bo7pKPxXFQ
 

He is already preparing us

[geaux_sioux]

2 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:

Can we not bring up that stupid idiot ever again?

Why? He’s a legend! 

[fightingsioux4life]

2 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

Why? He’s a legend! 

I have to agree to disagree.

[geaux_sioux]

1 minute ago, fightingsioux4life said:

I have to agree to disagree.

He belongs in the UND and internet Halls of Fame as far as I’m concerned. It was a masterclass of trolling.