Bison Basketball Team ISSUES

[El_Chapo]

This is Richman's 4th year. His worst year ironically was his second year in which they went 20-13(8-8) and I believe made it to the Conference finals. He took over a program that was very poorly recruited considering the success that was happening, IMO.

The program was never given a chance to benefit off that Oklahoma win in recruiting because Saul never tied recruiting up before he left and I would imagine a rookie HC didn't have a lot of pull. Richman has done an excellent job at recruiting perimeter players and a very poor job at recruiting inside. The player development argument is garbage. Paul Miller's development has been significant, same with Ward. On the flip side, the player development of the inside players, well, has been garbage.

Firing Richman opinions are just ignorant and completely unsubstantiated. He has been NDSU's most successful coach in history, and despite what anyone thinks, this season's success is based on conference, not out of conference. This ain't football where NDSU is expected to compete for Championships in a sub division. I would personally be pissed if Richman beat all these teams and then pissed the conference away.

With all that being said, Richman better figure out how to coach offense and get his teams to play with a little energy, immediately, or the above arguments for him are going to quickly lose their merit.

so ndsu is 3-5 (Stetson & Florida A M 328 & 344 RPI) so basically 1-5 . they lost last 2 of 2016 season. next 6=und Arizona UNC-wilm & UTEP SDSU USD. 1-13!!!!!!! if that happens you think long and hard about sending him back to ndscs

[El_Chapo]

Curious if Craig Smith was available and an option when Saul left? Don’t remember the circumstances at that time.

I was at Sioux falls BWWS on summit semifinal night when Craig Smith could've been had at NDSU by gene taylor... but gene didn't know Saul was gonna get a MAC offer a week later grre

[El_Chapo]

Hunter 1
Paul 2
Ward 3
Geu 4
Miller 5

AJ off the bench as the "spark" and Rocky the next guy on.... Samuelson in to shoot 3's. that's how you win the summit. Athleticism

ahem my lineup wins

[GRAFTONBISON]

I think USD hired Craig shortly after we lost to San Diego State in the big dance, so a few weeks before he left.

Would Craig have been a top candidate if still available? Would he have been interested?

[NDSUstudent]

Would Craig have been a top candidate if still available? Would he have been interested?

Probably the only external option GT would have considered...He would have been very interested from what I had heard at the time.

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[ndsubison1]

Comes across as grumpy

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How so? 10char

[ndsubison1]

Probably the only external option GT would have considered...He would have been very interested from what I had heard at the time.

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Prolly wouldve been between those two

[westnodak93bison]

How so? 10char

Watch him.on the sideline. Is there ever a smile?

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[unbison]

Curious if Craig Smith was available and an option when Saul left? Don’t remember the circumstances at that time.

Craig was hired at usd before Saul left he would have loved to return to fargo....
We have Dave and we will be fine
I think we will make a run in conference and this will be forgotten

[BisonTeacher]

Comes across as grumpy

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Watch him.on the sideline. Is there ever a smile?

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IM not the biggest Dave R fan, but this is a really bad take. Have you seen Duke's coach K on the sideline? If this is why they wont play better, then I would question who we are recruiting more than the coaches demeanor. As a matter of fact when he got into it at UND last year I was glad to finally see some fire from him.