UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

[staind86]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

Thank you '93 '99
I have been just reading posts of late. There are a lot of silent supporters of Coach Whitehead.
Many just brush off all the negative comments because they are the loud minority.

We have an awesome program here at Maine.

Hockey will always bring out passionate people and everybody is entitled to an opinion.
I just don't understand why people always want to blame TW.

Coach Whitehead is an excellent person that leads by example. He is an incredible role model
and our program is in good hands and thriving.

True we win and lose but that's hockey.

Go Black Bears!

Wow. Just wow.

I wish I could live in your world Big Papa. Money grows on trees. Candy and junk food makes you skinny. The word majority is spelled minority. Everybody loves everbody...Seems like a cool place.

[Potato in NH]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

[QUOTE=Big Papa;5300855]
I just don't understand why people always want to blame TW.
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Rule #1 - Ignore Big Papa.

Rule #2 - When you can not ignore him, please point out that TW is the only constant in the string of 4, almost 5 seasons without an NCAA appearance. Players, coaches, ADs, and the size of the Alfond have all changed in that time. Just TW remains the same.

Rules #3 - When/if Big Papa responds to a logical posting with more non-sense, please refer back to Rule #1.

[Ma#1ne Hky]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

http://mainehockeyjournal.com/2011/1...a-opportunity/

Hopefully the move to Junior A will help Antonelli out.

He could return to Maine later,right..? Didn't Jankus do that when he was at Maine..? Left and then came back.

[Ma#1ne Hky]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

Trying to help out as much as I can:

http://sidorkiewicz.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-defense-of-protestors.html

Seems like there are alot more people that want TW gone...this one and another two sites going on would seem to tell me their are plently of unhappy campers in Black Bear Nation. GOOD..! And good that its alot of people from everywhere's...not just a Forum.

[sandiegoblkbr]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

I wonder if his leaving was hard on the parents of the players... and if he left because he has his sites on the destruction of the program... Whitehead will let us know soon enough that HE had nothing to do with it.

and I have NO idea what your comment means... he won't be the LAST?

I wonder if timmy told him that there was no room at the inn in Florida for him later this month.

I'm sure that the TIMMAY spin machine is on overdrive. This is so freakin pitiful to watch play out...........

[tylerzx2002]

He could return to Maine later,right..? Didn't Jankus do that when he was at Maine..? Left and then came back.

Yes it's a smart move on his part since he wasn't going to play much (if at all) this year.

[Drew S.]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

I wonder if his leaving was hard on the parents of the players... and if he left because he has his sites on the destruction of the program... Whitehead will let us know soon enough that HE had nothing to do with it.

and I have NO idea what your comment means... he won't be the LAST?

I wonder if timmy told him that there was no room at the inn in Florida for him later this month.

I'm not sure if this had anything to do with it or not, but his brother died right before he came to Maine in an incident similar to what happened in Haverhill yesterday. An announcer mentioned during one of the games they were thinking of red-shirting him and Norman so maybe that is why he went to junior A. I hope everything works out for him and he comes back at some point. Reading his bio it sounds like he's a wonderful athlete and needs game action which he'll get with Pembroke.

[all bear]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

Is Whathead gone yet? How ugly is this whole thing going to get for him before he's physically run out of town?

[Fishman'81]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

But see its not going to, he has a 3 year contract worth close to a 1/2 million dollars or more. Its not wins or losses at this point its a contract that's a public relations nightmare. So thinking 0-15 is going to do something at this point in the season is just plain wrong

I don't know anything for sure, but my point was that being a complete failure might make Maine eating his salary seem justified to the public, using whatever spin the U wants to put on it.

It's harder to sell that idea when you're just dealing with a pedestrian failure such as Tim has been, and that could be why we might be stuck with him for a couple more years.

With the benefit of hindsight, I wish he'd gone 0-30 in 2009... Pretty sure he'd be history by now if that were the case, gift-extension or not.

[all bear]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

But see its not going to, he has a 3 year contract worth close to a 1/2 million dollars or more. Its not wins or losses at this point its a contract that's a public relations nightmare. So thinking 0-15 is going to do something at this point in the season is just plain wrong

No its not just plain wrong. Having this team limp along in mediocrity for the next 2 years with Timmay szmoozing and azzkissing Abbot every chance he gets could just result in another extension. Dont discount that sad possibility. We all know Timmay will do pretty much anything to hold on...thats already been demonstrated by him throwing the Maine fanbase under the bus. As sad as it to think, in order to help assure his dismissal his teams have to finish in the lower tier out of the playoffs every year, which is likely to happen anyway given the way that schmuk coaches.

[MEbear]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

But see its not going to, he has a 3 year contract worth close to a 1/2 million dollars or more. Its not wins or losses at this point its a contract that's a public relations nightmare. So thinking 0-15 is going to do something at this point in the season is just plain wrong

I think you're going to surprised one of these days......Going 0-15 in itself might not do it but if that 0-15 record means there are even more empty seats in the Alfond, Abbott might just do the math and realize that the lost income from ticket sales, food sales, UMaine sports gear/clothing, and alumni donations, will be a LOT more than 1/2 million over the next couple of years. 1/2 million to get rid of Whitehead could turn out to be the best business decision Abbott ever made!

[walrus]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

I think you're going to surprised one of these days......Going 0-15 in itself might not do it but if that 0-15 record means there are even more empty seats in the Alfond, Abbott might just do the math and realize that the lost income from ticket sales, food sales, UMaine sports gear/clothing, and alumni donations, will be a LOT more than 1/2 million over the next couple of years. 1/2 million to get rid of Whitehead could turn out to be the best business decision Abbott ever made!

Maybe so but nothing is going to happen in the middle of the season

[BearPaw]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

Thank you '93 '99
I have been just reading posts of late. There are a lot of silent supporters of Coach Whitehead.
Many just brush off all the negative comments because they are the loud minority.

We have an awesome program here at Maine.

Hockey will always bring out passionate people and everybody is entitled to an opinion.
I just don't understand why people always want to blame TW.

Coach Whitehead is an excellent person that leads by example. He is an incredible role model
and our program is in good hands and thriving.

True we win and lose but that's hockey.

Go Black Bears!

I can see why you don't understand why people blame TW. You seem to think we have an awesome program and its thriving.

We have gone from being a top team year in, year out to a middle of a pack team with no end in sight. How is that thriving? It looks more like a slow death.

[Ma#1ne Hky]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

Maybe so but nothing is going to happen in the middle of the season

Your right there..."IF" anything happens it will be after the season is done...maybe the end of March/1st week of April leading up to the Frozen 4 in Tampa,FL.

[all bear]

Re: UMaine, 2011-2012 season thread, does anyone care anymore?

Your right there..."IF" anything happens it will be after the season is done...maybe the end of March/1st week of April leading up to the Frozen 4 in Tampa,FL.

Or maybe nothing at all happens. If the admin is satisified with middle of the road, average, mediocre or even below that level, they have the man in charge already. Dont count that possibility out. Remember Whathead had James eating out of his hand.