David Richman - Head coach - NDSU - 37

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David Richman

Age: 37

Current job: Head Coach at North Dakota State

Current contract situation: Base salary of $190,000(?), contract duration not clear (please respond with a link if you can find anything)

Experience: 2 years as a head coach at D1 North Dakota State, 11 years as an assistant, all at NDSU. 

Best year as a head coach: 2014-15. 23-10 overall, 12-4 in conference. Regular season and Summit tournament championships. Summit League Coach of the Year. NCAA auto-bid, lost first game to Gonzaga as a 15 seed. 

Worst year as a head coach: 2015-16. 20-13 overall, 8-8 in conference. Lost Summit tournament championship game to South Dakota State. 

What makes him worth considering? Two years, two 20 win seasons, one NCAA tournament appearance, one game away in his second year. 

Whycome would he'd suck real bad? Zero coaching experience (and possibly near-zero life experience) outside the state of North Dakota. NDSU has been transitional or full D1 for 11 years, and they've won 20+ games in six of them. So, even though he's won 20+ games in both of his years as a head coach... That's not unusual for his program, and he didn't build it up as a head coach. 

Additional comments: Born in North Dakota, graduated from NDSU, only work experience at NDSU, married a woman he met while in school at NDSU. Seems to love North Dakota so much, he may have married it (if man-state polygamy was legal and socially acceptable). Previous NDSU coach didn't leave until offered the job at Ohio paying $550,000 per year for 5 years, and he didn't have anywhere near the ties to North Dakota that Richman does. Collects creepy family portraits drawn by prisoners (direct link to photo here). May have been born without eyebrows, or may have lost his eyebrows in some sort of unpublicized North Dakotan ecological disaster. 4 daughters, names are Mallorie, Brynlie, Kenlie and Ellie. May demand we change our mascot's name to Scrappie.