You get hired to get fired.

That has become the new old adage in modern day, big business college and pro sports for coaches and managers.

After seven seasons, three playoff appearances, and the first playoff series win in over 20 years, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli became the latest casualty of this concept. Was it warranted? Is he the "fall guy?"

Is it best the Twins move on even if Rocco is quite clearly not the primary reason for the sad state of affairs at Target Field? Beyond asinine ownership, what else besides Baldelli can we blame for the sinking ship the Twins became the last couple years?

Speaking of sinking ships, has a bruised and battered Minnesota Vikings offensive line given enough reason to already believe this could be a lost season, or can a quarterback — either J.J. McCarty or Carson Wentz — and an all-of-a-sudden leaky defense keep NFC North title and even Super Bowl hopes afloat?

In a monster week of football for the city of Sioux Falls and South Dakota's two Div. I teams, Happy Hour host John Gaskins and Sioux Falls Live sports editor Matt Zimmer lead off with these pressing Minnesota matters.

Then, it is time to pick apart the South Dakota Coyotes' latest ugly loss in a revealing "measuring stick game" at No. 1 North Dakota State. Just like Monday's episode with Kurtiss Riggs, John and Matt try best to answer this question now that the 2025 season is about one-third in the books:

With both the Jackrabbits and Coyotes losing head coaches, assistants & a bunch of their best players from top 5 teams in 2024, how and why have the Jacks remained national championship contenders (so it appears) while the Yotes have fallen off the radar (and out of the Top 25 rankings)?

Meanwhile, Augustana will take its No. 8 ranking and 5-0 record across Sioux Falls to Bob Young Field on Saturday against now-unranked University of Sioux Falls (3-2) in the Key to the City Game. While the Vikings have the better record and momentum — the Cougars have lost back-to-back games in convincing fashion to Top 15-rated Duluth and Mankato — why does Zim feel the Coo have the advantage, and not just because USF has home field advantage?

Finally, a preview of the most-anticipated game in South Dakota 11AAA high school football so far — No. 1 Lincoln at No. 2 Brandon Valley on Friday, a game you'll be able to watch on the Midwest Sports Plus app or at MidwestSportsPlus.com, where you can also download the app and start your 30-day free trial.

You don't know. You may think you know. But you don't know.

That wasn't just a famous line from former Saints and Colts coach Jim Mora, Sr., over 30 years ago. It serves as the motto of Happy Hour with John Gaskins. It's is what the nature of football in 2025 — the ever-changing NFL and the transient college football landscape — continues to prove.

Exhibit A: The South Dakota Coyotes being considered a preseason national championship contender. Made sense, with USD returning its sturdy and proven quarterback and All-American running back, plus hiring as head coach the defensive coordinator that made the Coyotes a defense to be reckoned with the last few years in their climb into Top 5 status.

Oh, sure, USD lost its best few defensive playmakers, some skill weapons, and most of its offensive line to FBS schools, but isn't every FCS school going through that?

Well, yes, but Saturday's 51-13 sledgehammer beating at No. 1 North Dakota State, which dropped USD to 2-3 and in a position where it will have to fight to just make the playoffs proved our motto:

We don't know. We may think we know. But we don't know. Happy Hour host John Gaskins leads off the show with where or how things went wrong. Hear from NDSU coach Tim Polasek on his dynamite quarterback (so far) Cole Payton, and also hear our Monday afternoon quarterback, local radio and TV football analyst Kurtiss Riggs, explain why the Coyotes have dropped so far (so far this season) and why South Dakota State has mostly upheld its elite status through four games, all wins.

Also, we can tamp down the Carson Wentz becoming the Vikings permanent QB1 chatter.

You don't know. You may think you know. But you don't know.

That wasn't just a famous line from former Saints and Colts coach Jim Mora, Sr., over 30 years ago. It serves as the motto of Happy Hour with John Gaskins. It's is what the nature of football in 2025 — the ever-changing NFL and the transient college football landscape — continues to prove.

Exhibit A: The South Dakota Coyotes being considered a preseason national championship contender. Made sense, with USD returning its sturdy and proven quarterback and All-American running back, plus hiring as head coach the defensive coordinator that made the Coyotes a defense to be reckoned with the last few years in their climb into Top 5 status.

Oh, sure, USD lost its best few defensive playmakers, some skill weapons, and most of its offensive line to FBS schools, but isn't every FCS school going through that?

Well, yes, but Saturday's 51-13 sledgehammer beating at No. 1 North Dakota State, which dropped USD to 2-3 and in a position where it will have to fight to just make the playoffs proved our motto:

We don't know. We may think we know. But we don't know. Happy Hour host John Gaskins leads off the show with where or how things went wrong, and, later in the show, our Monday afternoon quarterback and local radio and TV football analyst Kurtiss Riggs gives his assessment. Riggs also explains why the Coyotes have dropped so far (so far this season), yet South Dakota State has mostly upheld its elite status through four games, all wins.

After a 3-0 start but with plenty of things to sharpen during last week's bye week, South Dakota State checked a lot of boxes and rolled through its check list on Saturday in the 51-7 win over Mercyhurst:

• 3rd down conversions — The Jackrabbits were 26% coming in but 69% against the Lakers (9 of 13)
• Red Zone conversions — SDSU was 8 for 8, although settling for three field goals in the first half wasn't awesome
• Explosive plays — Chase Mason threw four passes of 28 yards or more, including a 52-yarder
• Getting more receivers beyond Lofton O'Groske involved — Mason connected with seven different receivers, and four of them had at least three grabs
• Place kicking — Eli Stader, benched in the Drake game after missing his fourth field goal of over 30 yards, made all three of his attempts
• Defense — Well, there wasn't too much to complain about, but some things did improve

In his weekly Happy Hour chat, SDSU coach Dan Jackson explained WHY all of these things improved in time for the Jacks' MVFC opener at No. 24 Youngstown State on Saturday. What about the Penguins would make a road win a hard-earned win, particularly from YSU's quarterback?

Meanwhile, Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer survived and advanced.

The South Dakota native and former University of Sioux Falls national championship player and coach took some heat off of himself in Alabama's wire-to-wire 24-21 win at Georgia on Saturday.

What appears to be different about the Crimson Tide from both the @eek 1 loss at Florida State and last season's four losses?

DeBoer's best friend and former teammate Riggs digs into the win, the kinds of things DeBoer has to deal with in-season during the transfer portal era, quarterback Ty Simpson, fellow USF coaching alumnus Ryan Grubb's play-calling, and Saturday's game against a Vanderbilt squad led by former SDSU assistant Clark Lea, who last year beat DeBoer in a game that sparked the flames that DeBoer still finds himself.

Riggs also picks apart SDSU's win, NDSU's destruction of USD, Carson Wentz's not-so-fabulous follow-up act in Dublin, some of the most impressive high school football talents in the state through five games, and why Mark Gronowski's time at Iowa has so far resembled the movie "Misery."