Klieman has to go with youth because Bohls recruits for 2 years were an utter failure in terms of retention. We could add other names to the list like Brantley (who would have been way more experienced at safety) allowing Dempsey to stay at corner where we needed him. Safety Frank Veldman, LB Jacob Davis, WR Dee Gray, WR Carey Woods, LB Zack Riopelle, S Danell Miles, LB Nick Scoliere, LB/S Joey Sonenfield, TE Matt Miller, WR Andrew Okland, and the list goes on and on ...
So we end up starting young players earlier than we would like. Long term this is a good thing but short term it's a challenge.
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Mine was a counter-point to the "all of Bohl's recruits are leaving and that is why our D sucks" narrative established in this thread. People want to hand the Bohl era's D success over to Klieman and at the same time hold Bohl to account for any retention issues the D may have had in that era. In other words, we want to believe that our success was due to the guy who we still have and that any issues we may have have left with guy who we no longer have. It's a very optimistic take to say the very least.
And I would argue that it is NDSU who has the solid rep at this point nationally, Klieman can build on it with on-field success or he can lose the momentum of the Bohl era. Obviously year 1 was good, but you try to wait to give a college coach 3-4 years to see how things go the more he has his own players. For me that's for better and worse. If he'd taken a train wreck over and year 1 was a bad season I'd say give him time, the same is true if in year 1 he continues the success of the previous regime. I wouldn't fire a rebuilding coach in year 1 and I wouldn't commission a statue for a caretaker coach after year 1 either. It kind of gets to what I'm saying, admitting that the Bohl effect is fading is not the same as saying Klieman won't have his own success. They can both be true.
Bohl has been quoted saying they "fucked up" recruiting during the first playoff run in 2010. Good news is that the Bison have gotten a lot of practice doing so the past championship runs.
Without a doubt.
We can hope that the Bohl effect is fading. He's not here. Klieman is the man.
If you wore the uniform...you're a champion.
This thread is frickin stupid.
Coach K and his staff are very good.
The Bison lost in the toughest FCS venue with 2 seconds left with a very young team.
Bison lost.....it will happen. The season is just beginning.
This thread sucks!!