Maine Hockey 2013-2014 Part 1: Red Dawn

[gscott13]

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Worse news for the folks in Portland, no radio for the next five years. One of life's great mysteries is how Maine ever got tangled up with that Learfield outfit.

bdn article says that coverage will extend down to portland on wvom... i'm not familiar with the station, anyone know if that is true....

 

[ColbyWMHB]

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Worse news for the folks in Portland, no radio for the next five years. One of life's great mysteries is how Maine ever got tangled up with that Learfield outfit.

WVOM's simulcast on 101.1 can somewhat reach Portland, but nobody would call it a Portland station. Black Bear Sports Properties states on their Facebook page that UMaine games will be heard on Atlantic Coast Radio's stations (WJJB 96.3 / WLOB 1310). The Big Jab has a lot of time tied up in sports during the fall and winter (flagship for Pirates and Sea Dogs, also airing Sox games through however far they go, and the Celtics as well), so I don't know what they'd do about airing UMaine football or hockey and how that might fit into their schedule.

I'm not sure how many radio stations in Cumberland and York county consider UMaine sports as something for which there's a lot of listener support. More importantly, I wonder about the interest level of advertisers in Southern Maine. If neither is there (and especially the latter), well....you can't expect stations to make programming decisions where they don't stand to make money from it.

 

[walrus]

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bdn article says that coverage will extend down to portland on wvom... i'm not familiar with the station, anyone know if that is true....

101.3, I could get it in and out around the Maine mall, sometimes out in Raymond. It will shaky at best. I was wondering why I heard Red on there today. Just get folks used to one station and switch again. F'in joke Learfield is

 

[sandiegoblkbr]

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101.3, I could get it in and out around the Maine mall, sometimes out in Raymond. It will shaky at best. I was wondering why I heard Red on there today. Just get folks used to one station and switch again. F'in joke Learfield is

After Maine got tangled up with Learfield........the whole athletic program started tanking.

 

[gscott13]

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re: portland area, bdn updated the article last night...

"Stuebner said UMaine has retained its Portland affiliates in WJJB (96.3 FM), WLOB (1310 AM) and WRED (1440 AM) for football and hockey games and the weekly coaches’ shows."

also noted that in 2006 the learfield contract was for 6 years, and that maine opted to extend for another 5 years...

 

[walrus]

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After Maine got tangled up with Learfield........the whole athletic program started tanking.

Apparently Learfield pays the radio stations to air the games, they then get to sell ads. I would assume Hannigan is an employee of Learfield?

 

[blackbearbandie]

Apparently Learfield pays the radio stations to air the games, they then get to sell ads. I would assume Hannigan is an employee of Learfield?

Probably he is, because I remember hearing a while ago when Learfield came in and did their corporate takeover that he wasn't allowed to do interviews on WZON because of something to do with Learfield's contract.

 

[Pucknut]

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Apparently Learfield pays the radio stations to air the games, they then get to sell ads. I would assume Hannigan is an employee of Learfield?

He may be a contractor, rather than an employee.

 

[Runsub5]

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I'm not familiar with the details of the Learfield marketing model, but I think it has worked to Maine's advantage. Learfield has far more resources than Maine could have mustered by going it alone. Learfield has contracts with "big time" division 1 programs and has the expertise to market a University's sports programs. I know that all of you Stephen King fans don't agree, and that I am probably in the minority on this thread. Under Learfield, Maine's sports programs have received much more coverage and have broadcasts that far exceed AM 620.

 

[BlackI]

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I'm not familiar with the details of the Learfield marketing model, but I think it has worked to Maine's advantage. Learfield has far more resources than Maine could have mustered by going it alone. Learfield has contracts with "big time" division 1 programs and has the expertise to market a University's sports programs. I know that all of you Stephen King fans don't agree, and that I am probably in the minority on this thread. Under Learfield, Maine's sports programs have received much more coverage and have broadcasts that far exceed AM 620.

Sheesh is this becoming boring. No offense but, the most exciting news of the year was when they went with a change in direction at head coaching(even though it was at least 2 years late in my opinion). Then everything that could have potentially given life into this program didn't happen and is seemingly going flat. I would have hoped we would have had the coaching staff in place by now and would be given clues about recruits(on the heels of new and exciting coaching change). My guess is we will wait to hear about a lack luster top assistant pick and have little to no word about recruiting over the summer. Potentially losing already signed on recruits in the process. **** is this a slow going process.

You have to wonder, is this really in the spirit of how Walshy would do things with this opportunity. It is getting lethargic it seems.

No worries, only can get better from here(or else stay the course and position ourselves to do nothing). ???

 

[Runsub5]

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Matt Thomas the new coach for Alaska - Anchorage had Maine connections. He was an assistant coach for two seasons between 2000 - 2002.

 

[irishfan85]

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Any rumors on top assistant?

 

[ck1969]

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I'm not familiar with the details of the Learfield marketing model, but I think it has worked to Maine's advantage. Learfield has far more resources than Maine could have mustered by going it alone. Learfield has contracts with "big time" division 1 programs and has the expertise to market a University's sports programs. I know that all of you Stephen King fans don't agree, and that I am probably in the minority on this thread. Under Learfield, Maine's sports programs have received much more coverage and have broadcasts that far exceed AM 620.

They may be on a few more radio stations but I don't see any big marketing campaign. You never hear anything about UMaine sports in southern Maine, where I would think you would want to market it as 2/3's of the population lives down here, unless it's a quick blurb on the 6 o'clock news. And isn't it the athletic department's job to market the sports? I get it, Learfield wants to sell ad's but they aren't going to spend thousands or tens of thousands on a marketing campaign in this small market, that is Maine. Just my .02

 

[Maine Hockey Fan]

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Grand Rapids won the Calder Cup last evening, Gustav Nyquist had two assists in the win. Congratulations to Gus. Hopefully, he will be able to stay in Detriot for the entire season next year

 

[Drew S.]

Matt Thomas the new coach for Alaska - Anchorage had Maine connections. He was an assistant coach for two seasons between 2000 - 2002.

I saw he got the job on twitter yesterday and was thinking he had been the volunteer assistant awhile ago. I think Shawn was pretty high on him when he was at Maine.

 

[walrus]

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TW still has a year left on his contract.... I highly doubt he will take another position and leave 190k on the table...they do not have to pay him that money if he takes another full time job... Only way we see TW behind the bench next year is if he is making close to the same amount of money---and while he may have inquired at KUA it would be way too big of a loss on his end...

According to lee Goldberg, Tim is now the head coach At Kimball union prep, your predictions are pretty valuable, have any come true yet?

Congrats to Tim, hope he does well and sends some players to Maine

 

[Runsub5]

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Congratulations to Tim on his new coaching job. A very good academic institution and one that turns out very good college hockey players. I wish he and his family the very best.

 

[all bear]

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According to lee Goldberg, Tim is now the head coach At Kimball union prep, your predictions are pretty valuable, have any come true yet?

Congrats to Tim, hope he does well and sends some players to Maine

Yeah, this guys predictions are as good as that BC dork used to be

 

[BobF]

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According to lee Goldberg, Tim is now the head coach At Kimball union prep, your predictions are pretty valuable, have any come true yet?

Congrats to Tim, hope he does well and sends some players to Maine

Very Happy for Tim. A good man who should be in hockey and a good hire for Kimball. Wish him well.

Now can we find another assistant? Surprised it has taken this long.

 

[Runsub5]

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..........Now can we find another assistant? Surprised it has taken this long.

I am too. Something magical or arbitrary about July 1st. That's the deadline for naming an assistant.