Rogers to WSU - next man up

[jakejc795]

Austin Sumner
@AustinSumner6
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There is a standard to be withheld. Someone in that Jackrabbit locker room is going to rally the squad and I can’t wait f’n wait to find out who does!

Thank you for posting this. It's great to see a former player make this statement with such confidence.

I'll definitely look to rally around the leaders who stay as next season approaches. It'd be great if fans could break Spring Game attendance records to demonstrate support

[Sodakbull]

I agree.

Charlie Baker is a spineless POS. If anyone thinks he's going to ever do anything to appease anyone other than the top tier programs they are smoking some good stuff. All you need to do is look at his response to whether something should be done to protect women in locker rooms from transgender males.

That’s the way I see it too. The NCAA is rudderless, has no vision and no plan and is just responding to the lawsuits against them and is waiting for congress to write rules for them to implement. Don’t hold your breath for anything to be resolved any time soon. Meanwhile the high $$$$ institutions are dictating the direction of college sports. I think that as an AD and a college coach, you have to plan on more of the same and wait until the system collapses on itself.

[MontanaRabbit]

I agree 100% but I fear that they only care about the P4 schools so nothing will change for the lower level programs.

I agree.

Charlie Baker is a spineless POS. If anyone thinks he's going to ever do anything to appease anyone other than the top tier programs they are smoking some good stuff. All you need to do is look at his response to whether something should be done to protect women in locker rooms from transgender males.

[OldHare]

Austin Sumner
@AustinSumner6
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19h


There is a standard to be withheld. Someone in that Jackrabbit locker room is going to rally the squad and I can’t wait f’n wait to find out who does!

[jbjack]

I can’t believe you guys want Roehl. That dude sucks at calling plays. And I don’t want some meathead bison running our program.

You guys are also missing the most important fact about Riggs. He runs the largest football academy in the state. He built it from nothing to what it is today. He had relationships with the majority of our current players and has ties to coaches all over the place. Imagine Riggs getting 5 transfers a year from his best friend at Alabama. Now we are cooking.

The biggest piece of this for me is that we are inarguably a top 3 or even top 2 program, or as the guys on JI suggested on their Saturday podcast, the top FCS program from a coaching standpoint (citing the unreasonable expectations in North Fargo). We shouldn't need to reach for coaching candidates. At the same time, we should be expecting a coaching candidate that has lived and coached in a championship culture and is familiar with the recruiting pool and the environment of championship football in the I29 corridor. That eliminates a lot of candidates for me. If we can find that candidate in the Stig tree, great. But a lot of those candidates were from an earlier era of Jackrabbit football. The program was built emulating NDSU's success and if we don't have a great candidate from our program, then I have no issue looking to the program that we emulated in building a championship culture. Maybe that guy isn't Roehl although I'm not familiar enough with where NDSU guys have been or are now. But Roehl obviously jumps immediately to mind, is obviously well regarded in the coaching world, is a good recruiter and his players loved him. He's going to be a HC someday and probably some day soon.

[JRFanatic]

Give me Jackson as the head coach and Riggs as the OC


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[jakejc795]

I can’t believe you guys want Roehl. That dude sucks at calling plays. And I don’t want some meathead bison running our program.

You guys are also missing the most important fact about Riggs. He runs the largest football academy in the state. He built it from nothing to what it is today. He had relationships with the majority of our current players and has ties to coaches all over the place. Imagine Riggs getting 5 transfers a year from his best friend at Alabama. Now we are cooking.

Hey now, please don't lump me into that pro-Ungulate umbrella

[jbjack]

I can’t believe you guys want Roehl. That dude sucks at calling plays. And I don’t want some meathead bison running our program.

You guys are also missing the most important fact about Riggs. He runs the largest football academy in the state. He built it from nothing to what it is today. He had relationships with the majority of our current players and has ties to coaches all over the place. Imagine Riggs getting 5 transfers a year from his best friend at Alabama. Now we are cooking.

The criticism of Roehl's play calling is fair although it's possible that he and NDSU just didn't have the playmakers during his tenure.

We know nothing about how Riggs would coach, call plays, run a program. And besides the SD guys, and maybe NW Iowa guys, were our MN kids, NE kids, MO kids, Illinois kids, Grand Forks kids, WI kids, Kentucky kids in the Riggs Academy?

[Jackbacker123]

This whole thing sucks and the greatest fear is going back to mediocrity. The idea of "building a program" is out the window given the portal and NIL. The NCAA best get a handle on this or else many people will find something else to do on Saturdays in the Fall - and take their support and money with them.

I agree 100% but I fear that they only care about the P4 schools so nothing will change for the lower level programs.

[mnjackrbt]

Isaiah Jackson is interesting, and one I haven't seen mentioned. I wonder if he'd consider returning here. It'd keep the Chandler HS chain unbroken, which raises the question of whether Jimmy might try to bring him to WSU

I have heard that Jimmy and Isaiah are/were best friends and the reason Isaiah never joined his staff at SDSU was because the coaching world is tough and they didn't want to potentially have the hard discussion someday of one of them letting the other down with an under performing unit they were in charge of coaching. Who knows the truth to it. I would have full trust in Isaiah though - young, relatable to players, part of a team at UC-Davis that has improved every year, Special Teams Coordinator.

[salemjack]

I can’t believe you guys want Roehl. That dude sucks at calling plays. And I don’t want some meathead bison running our program.

You guys are also missing the most important fact about Riggs. He runs the largest football academy in the state. He built it from nothing to what it is today. He had relationships with the majority of our current players and has ties to coaches all over the place. Imagine Riggs getting 5 transfers a year from his best friend at Alabama. Now we are cooking.

[jakejc795]

How certain are we that the whole staff is going? Does Jessie Bobbit or Danny Fruend pass up the HC job here if it's offered? Has Wazzu announced staff hiring yet? I get the sense that Jimmy was the economy hire after Vigen's demands were too high and Wazzu adjusts to life without the old PAC 12 TV deal. Wazzu might be content to bargain shop across the board as a result. If Wazzu were still a power conference program trading a chance on a young coach, the AD would likely require Jimmy to bring in some FBS experienced staff, at least a coordinator or two.

I don't want to hire a guy because we think he won't leave. We should be hiring the guy who we think gets us to the NC.

Would Bergstrom be considered if he wasn't an SDSU guy? His Winona teams haven't been terribly impressive outside of one year.

I think with any of the SDSU guys, the longer they've been away, and the longer they've languished in the ranks, the less impressive they are to be. I know that Dan Jackson is a hot name. But he's been gone awhile, been demoted, had some controversy and was passed over for the Idaho job when Eck left, which he reportedly really wanted. He's

Coach E at NIU? No thanks.

Riggs? I can't gcan'tst the fact he hasn't coached at anywhere near the level of FCS or 11 man football. Would he be a candidate if he were doing his thing in say, Omaha or Sioux City?

I think it needs to be a younger, hungry, aggressive coach. Ideally with SDSU ties but relevant championship level experience would do. For me, if it's not Bobbit or Fruend (either of whom I think makes the most immediate sense), then in no particular order, Lujan, Davis, Smith and Roehl.

You're right about WSU not formally announcing the rest of Jimmy's staff there; I've only read that in reports from local media (Zim, Borg, Castora, et al.)

I think both Bobbit or Freund would be willing to have Stig mentor them for one year as a head coach. It's asking alot of them to start their first gig with the current state of affairs, and Stig helps stabilize things.

I am with you re. Bergstrom, but I am intrigued by Riggs.

[jbjack]

This whole thing sucks and the greatest fear is going back to mediocrity. The idea of "building a program" is out the window given the portal and NIL. The NCAA best get a handle on this or else many people will find something else to do on Saturdays in the Fall - and take their support and money with them.

There might be a short term setback but I believe that the biggest difference between the top 5 or 6 FCS programs is institutional investment and we have that here. It's an attractive job and even if we are looking for a new coach every three years it will more likely mean we've had success rather than failure or even mediocrity

[jbjack]

I was impressed by his postgame interview after that game. There's also the argument that we may never have won the Natty if we judged Stig on playoff wins between 2007 and 2015.

I'm not sure how much stock to put in his playoff record necessarily, because Zim and Gaskins have mentioned that Augie fan support has been disappointing.

One hurdle for me to consider him would be whether he indicates he is going to do what Jimmy is doing and bring the entire Augie staff here. If he were to do that, I would get considerably more apprehensive about him as a viable candidate. Not because I think they're bad coaches; rather, with the exception of Paopao, Bradshaw, and Brink, their experience has been at the DII level.

I'm assuming Bergstrom would be "out" for you too, or would you make an exception because he coached with Stig?

How certain are we that the whole staff is going? Does Jessie Bobbit or Danny Fruend pass up the HC job here if it's offered? Has Wazzu announced staff hiring yet? I get the sense that Jimmy was the economy hire after Vigen's demands were too high and Wazzu adjusts to life without the old PAC 12 TV deal. Wazzu might be content to bargain shop across the board as a result. If Wazzu were still a power conference program trading a chance on a young coach, the AD would likely require Jimmy to bring in some FBS experienced staff, at least a coordinator or two.

I don't want to hire a guy because we think he won't leave. We should be hiring the guy who we think gets us to the NC.

Would Bergstrom be considered if he wasn't an SDSU guy? His Winona teams haven't been terribly impressive outside of one year.

I think with any of the SDSU guys, the longer they've been away, and the longer they've languished in the ranks, the less impressive they are to be. I know that Dan Jackson is a hot name. But he's been gone awhile, been demoted, had some controversy and was passed over for the Idaho job when Eck left, which he reportedly really wanted. He's

Coach E at NIU? No thanks.

Riggs? I can't gcan'tst the fact he hasn't coached at anywhere near the level of FCS or 11 man football. Would he be a candidate if he were doing his thing in say, Omaha or Sioux City?

I think it needs to be a younger, hungry, aggressive coach. Ideally with SDSU ties but relevant championship level experience would do. For me, if it's not Bobbit or Fruend (either of whom I think makes the most immediate sense), then in no particular order, Lujan, Davis, Smith and Roehl.

[jakejc795]

This whole thing sucks and the greatest fear is going back to mediocrity. The idea of "building a program" is out the window given the portal and NIL. The NCAA best get a handle on this or else many people will find something else to do on Saturdays in the Fall - and take their support and money with them.

I suspect Congress may attempt to rein in some of this; whether that increases or decreases one's apprehensiveness may be for another forum.