2025-2026 Season

[McBuckets]

2 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:

To be fair, Sutter is the one that introduced the concept of the team being a "family".

I’d say 99% of college teams in the country regardless of the sport or level call the team a “family” not sure why that keeps being brought up. Its honestly just used as a buzzword in recruiting and managing the team. Everyone says it some teams do it on different levels 

[Oxbow6]

This team averaged just 58.9 PPG and had an average scoring margin of -13.1 per game. To label this season as anything but disastrous and embarrassing would be disingenuous.

[tnt]

On 3/11/2026 at 5:28 PM, Susie54 said:

There is one question we all need to ask ourselves- Is the current coach who we want being the face of a program built on tradition and accountability?  He has a long ways to go.  Remember he was involved and in charge of the  recruiting for the past 2 years.  The players that entered the portal could have decided to stay after he was hired - so was he also part of the reason for leaving?  
 

 

 

 

 

So was Paul Sather and he got an extension.

[UND92,96]

As a certain local columnist likes to say, "something that probably won't happen but if it does I'll look like a genius":

If most of the younger players who played major minutes enter the portal and this becomes even more of a rebuilding job than it already is, and if it's true his UND contract is pretty short-term, Hutter will realize maybe division I isn't for him after all and will go back to his old Mayville State job, which just opened up last week after a one-win season by his successor. 

[undwbbdeservesbetter]

2 hours ago, UND92,96 said:

As a certain local columnist likes to say, "something that probably won't happen but if it does I'll look like a genius":

If most of the younger players who played major minutes enter the portal and this becomes even more of a rebuilding job than it already is, and if it's true his UND contract is pretty short-term, Hutter will realize maybe division I isn't for him after all and will go back to his old Mayville State job, which just opened up last week after a one-win season by his successor. 

or one or 2 of his assistants who dont wanna be here will apply

[Siouxphan27]

For those suggesting getting rid of Hutter already, how deep of a candidate pool would you expect to get to choose from for a new coach?Let’s see….program has been a huge disappointment for several years, and just gave the most recent coach one whole year before canning him.  Who in their right mind would want to walk into that situation?