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!!!
go maji wrote:In regards who the new coach will be, like everything else, it all depends on if the coach is attracted to money or wins. NDSU only having one of those things. These fallowing names are likely to be fired after this year. Let me remind you it is VERY unlikely that these coaches even consider NDSU.
Kirk Ferentz - iowa
Bo pelini - Nebraska
Lane Kiffin - USC
Dan Mullen - Mississippi State
Randy Edsall - Maryland
Tim Beckman - Illinois
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.
Sportsrube wrote:I heard Nick Saban hasn't accepted the extension offered by Alabama, maybe this is why??
Indy5 wrote:Bison-Vikes, in the paper article I read, the explanation for why it was announced at this time was "in this day and age, it's impossible to keep anything secret." Which ultimately I think is a fair reason. Would you rather it be handled how it was or about the Bison's semifinal gameday have this leak out?
ndlionsfan wrote:On another note, when do you think we will hear who the next Bison coach will be? I'm assuming they are already in discussions with their top few choices, but would guess no announcement will come out until the Bison lose and are out of the playoffs or possibly in the gap before the championship game. Would think they would like to keep the distractions to a minimum during the playoff run after this big blow.
bison football73 wrote:Klieman was announced as the new head coach today. Heard he was keeping two assistants and the rest were going with Bohl to Wyoming.
Bison-Vikes #1 wrote:bison football73 wrote:Klieman was announced as the new head coach today. Heard he was keeping two assistants and the rest were going with Bohl to Wyoming.
Has anyone heard which assistants are going and which are staying? I heard Fuchs and Kramer are leaving. Can anyone confirm that?
Bison-Vikes #1 wrote:Indy5 wrote:Bison-Vikes, in the paper article I read, the explanation for why it was announced at this time was "in this day and age, it's impossible to keep anything secret." Which ultimately I think is a fair reason. Would you rather it be handled how it was or about the Bison's semifinal gameday have this leak out?
If those were the only two options, then of course how it happened would be the best of the two. This is kind of personal for me because I had it happen to my son. Played for 2 years at a school, moved up the depth chart and then the coach retired, new coach and staff came in with a completely different scheme. Didn't fit him and ended up leaving.
I read the same article you did. What would you expect the media to say? The media is half the problem with a lot of these scenarios. "Got to have that breaking news". Doesn't matter what the ramifications are and who is affected. Can you honestly tell me if you want to keep something under wraps, you can't? Personally, the ideal situation would have been Bohl being up front with the players in the first place. From the reaction of the few players who have talked, they didn't know and found out through social media. That's my problem with the whole situation. Once again, everyone has sugarcoated it, from Bohl, to Taylor to the media. But IMO, they are trying to minimize the damage after the fact. It sounds like Bohl has been "on the market" for a while, and he should have at least been up front with the players. That's my only point.
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