baseball18 wrote:Bison-Vikes #1 wrote:Congrats to Coach Bohl.
Personally not happy with the timing of it. As a coach, he has preached team and family to his players for years. To announce this during this "unprecedented" run was not fair to his seniors or any player for that matter. This is a "once in a life time moment" for these players and IMHO, Wyoming and Coach Bohl could have waited to make sure it was done with the respect the NDSU football players deserved.
There is no way the Bison can put together a package which will rival what Wyoming can offer. I am not positive, but think Bohl's current package, with incentives, is between $400K - $500K. Believe I heard the package Wyoming is offering is $1.5 to $1.7 million.
Money talks and you really can't blame Coach Bohl for taking on a new challenge, especially for that type of monetary jump. But I do believe he could have practiced what he has preached and handled his "family" of Bison players with more respect by keeping this under wraps until they either lost or reached their ultimate goal as a team.
GO BISON!!!
saying it was not fair and lack of respect for his players is complete lack of understanding of the situation. fbs teams are looking for coaches in december. if bohl were to say "hey let me get back to you in january after our championshp run", Wyoming would have a different coach. Wyoming was announcing their coach this week regardless. Coaches now days leave their programs when their season is still going on. Bowling Greens just left today for Wake even though they have a bowl game coming up. Same thing with Brian Kelly with Cincy and Notre Dame.
Its not lack of respect or classless. It's just how it works now days. Wyoming needed a new coach asap for obvious reasons. While it took a lot of fans and players off guard, it was going to happen at some point and it was likely going to be during the middle of a playoff run.
Gene Taylor put together a package to try and keep him here longer last year. Which Bohl signed. There was nothing in the plans to keep him here after the announcement this weekend. As Gene Taylor has stated, NDSU just cant compete with that money. Him leaving for Wyoming took myself and tons of fans off guard. A lot of Bison fans thought he would leave for a better program.
But it appears Wyoming fits for him and he is a Midwest guy and can continue to recruit the midwest and bring a toughness to the program. He'll bring his style of football to the MWC, which will be much different than the current norm there which is a pass heavy league. He can turn them around but it will be very tough. Plus, if he wants to end up at a Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas State or something, this is his best bet.
You bring up some fair points, but with all due respect, it doesn't work that way everywhere. For you to use Kelly leaving Cincy for Notre Dame only proves my point. You should maybe check how the Cincy players and the school felt about him leaving before using that as an example. And as far as Clawson leaving for Wake Forest, well BG was not undefeated and is not playing for a national championship and Clawson also left and is not coaching them in their bowl game. Classless. Wake is happy now, wait til he does it to them.
Listen, I don't want to beat a dead horse. Everyone has sugarcoated it to death and all the right things have been said. Coach Bohl has done a great job for us and he deserves to better himself and his family. He's staying to coach through the playoffs and that shows Coach Bohl has respect for NDSU and it's players. Wyoming is allowing it, and that's "nice" too. Your statement of "Its not lack of respect or classless. It's just how it works now days," is the problem. It doesn't have to work that way. If Bohl was their man, and Wyoming is a class act, then they would have wanted his commitment but could have been willing to announce when he finished his run. With the state of the Wyoming program, how many recruits do you honestly think that they would lose in the next month? And once Bohl gets there, how many do you think they gain?
Whether it be college football or the business world, a man's word and the way he conducts business tells more about him than wins and losses. I hope the underclass players, who signed on to play for coach Bohl at NDSU for 4/5 years, feel the same as you do. It's just how it works these days, right?