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Maine Offseason 2020: We Stay Home But Swayman Leaves

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NorthMike said:
There are some possible coaches in the atlantic conf too. They have low salaries and low budgets. Even coming to maine would give them more cash to work with. But I dont think Maine would have any difficulty getting lots if promising resumes once searching.

I see no problem with keeping coach salary at a level so they arent the highest paid state employee. But give the coach more incentive bonus. Lots of upside to that too. I have to think they could come up with that by rearranging things and if the program gets rolling then they have progressively more $ to work with. Of course now any of this will take a few years because of the mess things are in this year.
I dont envy the AD with all of this. Im sure he wants to see hockey routinely in the national ranks.
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You can’t not spend any money and expect results.

I’ve yet to hear any decent argument yet that Red has done a bad job and should be replaced. This year’s senior class has definitely been disappointing and no doubt Red needs a few more high end forwards but the program is in much better shape than when he took over.
 
Fishman'81 said:
Either bucket could work for the short term, although I think that Bucket #2 is likely the better choice.

To that end, there are a few really quality D-3 coaches out there who have recruited well in total backwaters and turned moribund programs around almost immediately. Why not give one of them a shot at tripling their salaries?

Red is a proven failure and appears to have taken early retirement while still drawing a paycheck. There's truly nothing to lose via replacing him.
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I'm not sure Maine pays much more than the NESCAC. I'd be interested to know what UNE pays.
 
Drew S. said:
I’ve yet to hear any decent argument yet that Red has done a bad job and should be replaced.
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His average finish in Hockey East is 7.5. He’s never played a game at TD Garden, ever. He’s 27 games under .500.

hows that? Decent?
 
And before you tell me he wooda made the Garden last year lets add that he’s 4-12 in the Hockey East tournament and hasnt won quarterfinal GAME, ever, much less a series, so who can be sure about that
 
Drew S. said:
You can’t not spend any money and expect results.

I’ve yet to hear any decent argument yet that Red has done a bad job and should be replaced. This year’s senior class has definitely been disappointing and no doubt Red needs a few more high end forwards but the program is in much better shape than when he took over.
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Are you serious.

Red is 100-127-31 at Maine. And his HEA W% is even worse.

The program was much better than that when he took over.

I have to wonder if you're his nephew or something.
 
AMC said:
I'm not sure Maine pays much more than the NESCAC. I'd be interested to know what UNE pays.
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I'm guessing it's much less; maybe 30% of what Maine offers.

I'm a little cozy with my very successful local D-3 team (it out-draws most of D-1) and I have heard that its coach draws around 85K.

I suppose that D-3 coaches perhaps don't have the recruiting pipelines in place to make the jump to D-1. But why not take a shot.

Hell, I could lose at Maine for $215K. Anybody could.
 
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BoSox3066 said:
he inherited 2 all americans named Shore and Hutton and coached them into the ground in year 2. He sucks as a coach. Nothing unfair about it, thats the scoreboard.
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I saw Red's first games up at St. Lawrence, and I agree completely.

He doesn't recruit talent, and he doesn't know what to do with talent if he inherits it.

He's worse than Semlar on Semlar's worst day.
 
Fishman'81 said:
Are you serious.

Red is 100-127-31 at Maine. And his HEA W% is even worse.

The program was much better than that when he took over.

I have to wonder if you're his nephew or something.
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Is his record better in the first half or second half of his tenure?
 
So, Covid keeps Red from losing this weekend so Maine has that going for it. :) :) I'd say at this point its obvious the AD has some serious doubts about Red as coach. He would have extended contract if he thought Red was the man for Maine hockey.

This trying to play while a pandemic is going on is a joke. I guess they will get some games in but at what cost?
 
walrus said:
So, Covid keeps Red from losing this weekend so Maine has that going for it. :) :) I'd say at this point its obvious the AD has some serious doubts about Red as coach. He would have extended contract if he thought Red was the man for Maine hockey.

This trying to play while a pandemic is going on is a joke. I guess they will get some games in but at what cost?
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And apparently no one on the team even had it. Absolute shambles.
 
walrus said:
Yes but had a positive test so they did the right thing and canceled. Not sure why thats a bad thing to anyone who thinks they should try to play????
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I just don’t see how they’re going to get close to 20 games in doing what they’ve done so far. It seems like it would be fairer to the players at this point if they just called it off.
 
Drew S. said:
I just don’t see how they’re going to get close to 20 games in doing what they’ve done so far. It seems like it would be fairer to the players at this point if they just called it off.
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I don't see how but they seem to be determined to try for some reason. At this point I think its the wrong way to go.
 
This season means nothing, aside from keeping programs together and having three months of practice.

And it looks like Maine could use the practice.
 
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