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  • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

    Originally posted by AMC View Post
    I 100% understand and agree with the decision not to bid, as Maine can't afford $150,000. Having said that, that is a rounding error in BC's athletic budget. Maine should not be a division one athletics program.
    BC's totals expenses for 2017-18 came to $77,850,143 while Maine's came to $21,661,278. So $150,000 is just 0.2% of BC's budget, but is only 0.7% of Maine's budget.

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    • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

      Originally posted by Pucknut View Post
      In that case it might be a Denver game and CC game the same weekend, great trip if it doesn't snow.
      Denver and CC released their schedules and didn't have Maine on them so not playing them this upcoming season.

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      • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

        Originally posted by AMC View Post
        .......... Maine should not be a division one athletics program.
        As a land grant institution the University of Maine deserves to have a division 1 program. It needs to be funded at a level commensurate with other schools.

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        • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

          Originally posted by Runsub5 View Post
          As a land grant institution the University of Maine deserves to have a division 1 program. It needs to be funded at a level commensurate with other schools.
          With money from where?

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          • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

            Originally posted by AMC View Post
            With money from where?
            That is the challenging part.

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            • Originally posted by AMC View Post
              With money from where?
              Some of the smaller schools? Increase the alcohol tax a bit to get the school some extra money? We need to find it somewhere.
              Originally posted by BobbyBrady
              Crosby probably wouldn't even be on BC's top two lines next year

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              • Originally posted by AMC View Post
                With money from where?
                Ask a rich and generous alum for a donation. Oh right.

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                • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

                  Originally posted by Runsub5 View Post
                  That is the challenging part.
                  Right, spending money is easy. Raising it, earning it, or finding it has proven to be impossible.

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                  • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

                    Originally posted by AMC View Post
                    Right, spending money is easy. Raising it, earning it, or finding it has proven to be impossible.
                    The university could stop throwing money in a giant black hole and use it to fund hockey and basketball, but we all know that will never happen.

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                    • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

                      Originally posted by ticapnews View Post
                      The university could stop throwing money in a giant black hole and use it to fund hockey and basketball, but we all know that will never happen.
                      I agree. Other then the "black hole" I know that baseball has the Mahaney fund that is dedicated to baseball and pays a substantial part of their expenses. However, there are other significant costs that the athletic department must pay for. Baseball just doesn't make any sense to me in this cold northern climate. There appears to be little interest from fan's. I have been to a couple of games this spring and there are very few people there.

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                      • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

                        Originally posted by Runsub5 View Post
                        I agree. Other then the "black hole" I know that baseball has the Mahaney fund that is dedicated to baseball and pays a substantial part of their expenses. However, there are other significant costs that the athletic department must pay for. Baseball just doesn't make any sense to me in this cold northern climate. There appears to be little interest from fan's. I have been to a couple of games this spring and there are very few people there.
                        Probably a holdover from the John Winkin halcyon days of yore...

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                        • Originally posted by ticapnews View Post
                          The university could stop throwing money in a giant black hole and use it to fund hockey and basketball, but we all know that will never happen.
                          That Black Hole has more of an opportunity to win at their level than hockey will moving forward. You’re right, it’ll never happen.

                          Nice try at the pun, though...

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                          • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

                            Originally posted by chickod View Post
                            Probably a holdover from the John Winkin halcyon days of yore...
                            Exactly.

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                            • Re: Maine Black Bears 2019: Offseason Approaching

                              You can’t assume that every game is a home and home. There’s only three games left to fill, so one cannot assume that Maine is hosting Princeton and going to St. Lawrence because they “should be” return games. There’s too many ECAC games on schedule for my liking anyways.

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                              • Originally posted by dunbar View Post
                                That Black Hole has more of an opportunity to win at their level than hockey will moving forward. You’re right, it’ll never happen.

                                Nice try at the pun, though...
                                I've been calling it a black hole because money goes in never to be seen again. The program loses over a million dollars a year, even with two cash games every season. And it could go 150-0 and win the next 10 national championships and it still wouldn't be in the neighborhood of profitable. It's also a headache for Title IX. Contrast that with hockey, which once was the most profitable Division I public program east of Ann Arbor and routinely cleared over $2 million in profits each year. This wasn't even the halcyon days of 42-1-2 and Harold Alfond's gold card; it was a decade ago. Now not a single program on campus makes a profit every season. Fix the hockey program and it can go back to paying for itself, and providing money to feed that black hole. It wouldn't take much of an investment to turn hockey around and return it to profitability. How much would we have to invest in football to make it profitable? Is that even possible given that only a relative handful of programs in the nation turn a profit?

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