Ha...Maine is probably lucky from what I hear to have more than 10k in their entire recruiting budget as it is so I doubt that they will be spending an extra 10k to land a single recruit anytime soon. Regardless, that isn't the point. Or maybe it is. This program is so unbelievably under-funded that it is sickening and the fact that they continue to take away from and restrict their ability to provide the basic needs of their program is pathetic and they may well lose a very good coach because of it. Other programs of a similar stature...UNH, UVM among others...have found the ability to invest in their programs without having great state funding or other big-time athletics programs to support their non-revenue sports. You don't hear about those guys not being able to fill their schedules because they don't have money to travel. You don't hear about those guys not being able to provide the best equipment. You don't hear about those guys having to choose between recruiting and playing games. You don't hear about their entire staff making less than the head coaches of other programs, you don't hear about their assistant coaches making $24,000 a year (seem to remember that number being mentioned on here a couple seasons back before Lewis was hired). They've taken, and taken, and taken, and taken from the Maine program to the point that there is nothing left to take. They need to provide something that resembles a reasonable amount of support for their program and stop forcing their coaches to make impossible decisions about what ELSE to cut out of their program that other competing programs are providing to their athletes. Or else you get this...Maine finally experiences some success and no sooner than that happens they could once again be faced with tons of uncertainty. The next first-time head coach they have to hire may not have the same success Lewis has had and all of this progress could be gone just as soon as it got here.
