Minnesota Women's Hockey 2026-27: Here Comes The Boom

[ManBehindTheCurtain]

What will define success for Boom and how many years does he get to get there?

5 years.

The first year is not his team, not even his choice of who to recruit.

Year 2 he has his own recruits and the clock truly begins.

He better win a national championship with that group of recruits and the following 3 classes.

If not he isn't good enough.

 

[Windchill22]

5 years.

The first year is not his team, not even his choice of who to recruit.

Year 2 he has his own recruits and the clock truly begins.

He better win a national championship with that group of recruits and the following 3 classes.

If not he isn't good enough.

Is that true - that it's not his recurits? - wouldn't he have been highly invovled with/in charge of recruiting for the current team?

 

[Arreis]

Is that true - that it's not his recurits? - wouldn't he have been highly invovled with/in charge of recruiting for the current team?

Typically one of the assistants would have done the initial scouting and the head coach make the final decision. So was that Boom or somebody else?

 

[BuckyB]

They are all his recruits…. He had a MAJOR say in who they went after.
Frost was running that program on autopilot the last 5 years

 

[eastcoastgopher]

Typically one of the assistants would have done the initial scouting and the head coach make the final decision. So was that Boom or somebody else?

Jess Scott was the initial recruiter as I understand—Boom was new to the women's game at that point—but I also believe Boom had a big role. Now it looks like it will be Marty Sertich and Winny Brown doing the initial recruiting.

 

[Timothy A]

Jess Scott was the initial recruiter as I understand—Boom was new to the women's game at that point—but I also believe Boom had a big role. Now it looks like it will be Marty Sertich and Winny Brown doing the initial recruiting.

The Sertich hire is a great one.

 

[Timothy A]

Jess Scott was the initial recruiter as I understand—Boom was new to the women's game at that point—but I also believe Boom had a big role. Now it looks like it will be Marty Sertich and Winny Brown doing the initial recruiting.

He's off to a rough start losing top end players to UW and PSU. I think by the end of year 3 you will know what you really have. I'm just not sure how well an assistant coach can change the Frosty culture that he was a part of it, and for surely selling it as an assistant coach to the players. I think they should have gone 100% outside for the hire, but on the other hand I'm perfectly happy with a Frosty 2.0 regime.

 

[ARM]

I don't agree with the sentiment that a new head coach "owns" the recruits that came in while they were an assistant. For example, Shannon Miller wasn't inclined to give much in the way of scholarships to Minnesota HS players early in her tenure. By the end of her regime, there weren't that many state products who seriously considered UMD. Early in his tenure, Frost got most everyone he wanted from in state. By the end, it was hit or miss. If May wanted players that didn't want to play for Frost, can you say the roster that he inherits is his roster?

It isn't until a coach's third class to arrive on campus while they are in charge that you can 100% say the recruits belong to that. Until then, they are at the mercy of outside factors. After four years, you at least need to see positive signs emerging in terms of development improving and classes looking like they match the coach's systems and style of play.

As for losing players, that's because he isn't a name. Someone like Mark Johnson gets a lot of street credibility by being known as a player. At the end of the day, he's been successful because he could coach, not because he scored goals against the Russians decades back. Elite players who can go anywhere they like aren't likely to take a chance on someone new unless they have already formed a strong relationship during the recruiting process. People bailing to play for coaches who have been coaching the NCAAs since long before they were born are trying to reduce their personal risk.

 

[eastcoastgopher]

I still think that it's a good sign that everyone who was supposed to be on the 26-27 roster save one third-string goalie is going to be on the roster.

 

[Moosefan1]

I still think that it's a good sign that everyone who was supposed to be on the 26-27 roster save one third-string goalie is going to be on the roster.

Make that fourth-string - they've got the Warroad goalie coming in for 26-27 too.

 

[Hockeyfan13]

Paging BuckyB. So if Mossey isn't going into college a year early, does that mean one/both of the Lovell Academy players are?

Mossey is not going a year early. She isn’t going back to ED either… and the two Lowell’s are not graduating early either. Only RL and Milani are going a year early.