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UMaine 25-26: Marques My Word: Back to the Big Time

BlackBearFan19 said:
Also alum here. The Alfond money was split between athletics and academics. The athletic department really had their ducks in a row at the time of the donation and have executed on this master plan very nicely.

For my money, it seems like Ferrini-Mundy and Malloy have botched the academics portion. I for one was optimistic about her coming to Maine given her STEM background but she’s been pretty disappointing. They seem to be more concerned with fighting back/picking fights (whichever way you see it) with the Trump admin than they do improving the lives of UMaine students. The athletic money was well spent and needed. The improvements to student athlete lives, especially on the women’s side, should not be understated.
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Trump NEVER picks fights.🙄. C'mon man.....it's a diverse college. You'll have to excuse Mundy and Malloy for not siding with the racist pedophile.....not many are these days.
 
Sparkee said:
Yes, I am an Orono alum. Last I checked they(Alfond) also donate to the new buildings and academic side of things as well. Should you tell them how to spend all their money? I’m pretty sure they don’t care for your opinion on how they wish to spend their money. Just like when I donate I don’t think it’s anyone’s business how I choose to spend it.

I would say if you aren’t happy with the funding at UMaine rather than telling donars how to spend their money, or asking for more of it, you go ask your state representatives to send more of your indirect and mandatory dollars(taxes) to the UMaine system.

Are you in favor of spending more in taxes for it to improve UMaine’s budget? If not, then what do you propose for cuts to improve the UMaine budget? Maybe stop subsidizing Somalian voters, whether real or otherwise, instead?
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I'm fully aware that the Alfond foundation can spend their money anyway that they want, doesn't mean I have to think its the best way to spend it. Kind of like you and the state of Maine spending money on Somali folks.
 
Sparkee said:
No a simple full of shit wouldn’t suffice with you. You have been on here saying you think recruiting isn’t good. You’ve criticized them spending too much money on facilities. Now you are back at saying it is the assistant coaching.

Why is it that you ignore the root of the problems in favor of blaming things that are clearly improvements?

Fact - 3 of the top 4 scorers on the team are newcomers(recruiting isn’t the issue)
Fact - Bennett has had only one season with these players and has a lot more accolades making him more proven(not assistant coaching).
Fact - The new facilities were provided by private donors and not the University therefore the University didn’t spend on new facilities nor would save any money by denying the new facilities. All people with a reasonable brain agree the new facilities brings Maine into current times as their facilities were in dire need of upgrades. This will help, not hurt the performance as it attracts better recruits on average. (Not the overspending on upgrades)

I think if you don’t like my verbiage explaining how dumb you are being… then stop saying dumb things and I won’t point it out with a lot of verbiage or otherwise.

Do you really look at what you say and expect me(or others) to agree with you?

If this was some wing nut like Tony Potter I wouldn’t care. But with you, I do care because you have been generally reasonable for a very long time. So it is disappointing to see you all of a sudden become illogical. It is like someone slipped you some acid.

It is almost as if every improvement they make you disagree with and want to go back to the Gendron days. Let’s not have better facilities, have worse assistant coaches, and have worst recruiting and see if that works. What sort of logic is this?
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hey sparkee why dont you fuck off and pound sand you know it all
 
ticapnews said:
So...you would prefer the university be run by people who cozy up to pedophiles?
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I did my best use neutral language as to not trigger anyone, but I guess I failed! I’m not saying the university should cozy up with anyone, I just want to see my Alma mater be successful and not botch the gift of a lifetime.

My criticism is that Ferrini-Mundy and Malloy have been at the university since 2018 and 2019, respectively, and I haven’t seen progress. The engineering building is nice but there seems to be a lack of direction to improve the rest of campus. Perhaps I missed it but is there a facilities master plan for non-athletic buildings? I believe academics was gifted ~150 million, how is it being spent? Hopefully not on fellowships and research, improve the campus for students and applications will increase.
 
Rick Bennett resigned as head coach from Union College in January 2022. There were allegations over his coaching practices and style. There was an investigation that substantiated the claims. He and the school mutually parted ways for the benefit of the program.
 
walrus said:
I'm fully aware that the Alfond foundation can spend their money anyway that they want, doesn't mean I have to think its the best way to spend it. Kind of like you and the state of Maine spending money on Somali folks.
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Not really. Property taxes. So some of my money was also spent on the fraud no doubt perpetuated by the way-to-far-leftist Mills regime.

Notice how you keep making poor assumptions?

Also, why was it so important that I qualify as an Alum for you since you are not an alum?

Just checking if you are being hypocritical again?
 
amkirby10 said:
This thread is quickly becoming a radioactive wasteland.
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iu

This is tame compared with how the board used to be.
 
Sparkee said:
Not really. Property taxes. So some of my money was also spent on the fraud no doubt perpetuated by the way-to-far-leftist Mills regime.

Notice how you keep making poor assumptions?

Also, why was it so important that I qualify as an Alum for you since you are not an alum?

Just checking if you are being hypocritical again?
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I don't see how it was a poor assumption when you mentioned your issue with the Somalis. I'm an alum
 
walrus said:
I don't see how it was a poor assumption when you mentioned your issue with the Somalis. I'm an alum
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My point is that is our tax money they spent on fraud. We do have a right to tell our legislators how we want our money spent. Our voice is also loudest through voting. But we can also flood them will emails too.

So why did you bring alum vs. not alum into this. There are plenty of Maine fans that aren’t alums. So I don’t see how that has any bearing on this conversation.
 
Sparkee said:
My point is that is our tax money they spent on fraud. We do have a right to tell our legislators how we want our money spent. Our voice is also loudest through voting. But we can also flood them will emails too.

So why did you bring alum vs. not alum into this. There are plenty of Maine fans that aren’t alums. So I don’t see how that has any bearing on this conversation.
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I figured an Alum might care about the condition of the buildings on campus. Might be another bad assumption on my part
 
walrus said:
I figured an Alum might care about the condition of the buildings on campus. Might be another bad assumption on my part
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I do. But again you have no point. I said the Alfonds are funding both the athletic and academics side of things. How does that translate into someone not caring about academic buildings on campus? Your assumptions and arguements are not logical.

You believe Alfonds should fund buildings on campus instead of athletics. But if someone is in favor of them funding both athletics and academics with THEIR money because we should be grateful that is how they want to improve the UMaine campus with THEIR money then it doesn’t mean someone doesn’t care about academic buildings. I think it is the opposite.

So get your head on straight and try to keep up.
 
BlackBearFan19 said:
I did my best use neutral language as to not trigger anyone, but I guess I failed! I’m not saying the university should cozy up with anyone, I just want to see my Alma mater be successful and not botch the gift of a lifetime.

My criticism is that Ferrini-Mundy and Malloy have been at the university since 2018 and 2019, respectively, and I haven’t seen progress. The engineering building is nice but there seems to be a lack of direction to improve the rest of campus. Perhaps I missed it but is there a facilities master plan for non-athletic buildings? I believe academics was gifted ~150 million, how is it being spent? Hopefully not on fellowships and research, improve the campus for students and applications will increase.
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Here is everything lined up for FY27-FY31.....


Of course many things need funding.....some things have funding already secured. Interesting to note that there are plans to demolish multiple buildings on campus which I think is a good thing. They don't need to keep pouring money into ancient buildings with no historical significance and would cost tens of millions to renovate. On that list: Murray Hall, Libby Hall and Barrows Hall. $100 million is budgeted for a new Residence Hall.....would not be surprised if that becomes a public/private partnership much like Ursa Hotel and Sodexo food services on campus. Also the Life & Health Sciences Complex planned with the recently secured $45 million in federal money (I don't like Collins but she sure has secured the bacon in this election year)....I think this is a precursor to a Med School which I think the Alfond Foundation will be a big part of in the next 5-10 years.
 
Sparkee said:
My point is that is our tax money they spent on fraud. We do have a right to tell our legislators how we want our money spent. Our voice is also loudest through voting. But we can also flood them will emails too.

So why did you bring alum vs. not alum into this. There are plenty of Maine fans that aren’t alums. So I don’t see how that has any bearing on this conversation.
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How much of our tax dollars is the Trump Administration spending on fraud?
 
umhockey91 said:
Here is everything lined up for FY27-FY31.....


Of course many things need funding.....some things have funding already secured. Interesting to note that there are plans to demolish multiple buildings on campus which I think is a good thing. They don't need to keep pouring money into ancient buildings with no historical significance and would cost tens of millions to renovate. On that list: Murray Hall, Libby Hall and Barrows Hall. $100 million is budgeted for a new Residence Hall.....would not be surprised if that becomes a public/private partnership much like Ursa Hotel and Sodexo food services on campus. Also the Life & Health Sciences Complex planned with the recently secured $45 million in federal money (I don't like Collins but she sure has secured the bacon in this election year)....I think this is a precursor to a Med School which I think the Alfond Foundation will be a big part of in the next 5-10 years.
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On page 4 it shows a bar chart illustrating Academic and Residence Halls as both being larger than Athletics.

So this means they are investing money into the campus academic and residence buildings more so than athletics despite some on here spouting off on things they don’t bother to research.

Why? Because it is too easy to just throw out blanket lazy statements even if they don’t make any sense.

Thanks for providing this. Though there is no doubt some won’t bother to click on the link and read it. Digesting facts would take to much of their time when it could be spent on generating false claims out of ignorance. If they avoid educating themselves then they can always fall back on the defense of ignorance… “oh, I didn’t know that”.

Nice to see that the University has a plan for improvements.
 
umhockey91 said:
How much of our tax dollars is the Trump Administration spending on fraud?
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A lot. He has already spent money of stealing oil from Venezuela which I doubt tax payers will see back.

What is worse though is the money this administration is printing to buy treasuries that the other countries are selling off. It dilutes the American dollar and is a hidden tax of purchasing power for anyone saving money in cash, bank accounts, bonds, treasuries, CDs, and annuities. So that is fraud. However money printing has been going on for a very long time by both party’s leaderships and the deflation of the dollar has been robbing those storing in fiat currencies. So it isn’t bad enough you pay taxes and they funnel some to secure political agendas… no no they need to inflate away the debt and erode everyone’s life savings to pay off the debt that got out of control due to overspending without any sort of firm budget.

I told you I am not republican or democrat. I am independent and generally anti-spending unless you can demonstrate how it improves the community, region, state, and country in that order. I believe in spending money on education because it makes all of those areas better. I’d rather do that then pay for wars do steal oil. And I’d rather spend money on education then spend money on Somolian aid for Somalians that don’t even exist.

You see, when you are independent you don’t have to defend things that are stupid in the name of toeing the party line. The downside is usually my vote for President is not a factor in deciding the least bad from the two nincompoops that are the last two “standing”.
 
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