........ the so-called "Robert Morin scandal" is only in your fertile imagination. For someone who claims to have elite level knowledge of "investing and capital improvements", that you cannot tell the difference between an earmarked donation and general donation is rather telling. If Morin the Librarian wanted his estate donation to go to a specific cause, the U would have been bound to honor that. In this instance, the donation was NOT earmarked, designated, etc. Folks like you who enjoy the social engineering racket can spout off about what you think was the "right" way to allocate the donation, but if it came without strings attached, the U could use it however they wished. Which they did. I know, not very "Commonwealth" of them, and sure, the optics may have been awkward once publicized (hence the "late in life football fan" cover story), but UNH did nothing wrong at all, and I'm sure this so-called "scandal" brings no baggage, since unlike you, big-time donors (see Whittemore, Towse, Paul, TDL, etc.) know they can allocate gifts......
It is clear you hold not only UNH in contempt, but the entire State of NH, its residents, and our way of life in contempt. Why do you bother posting here, while pretending to have any degree of worthwhile insight or life experience ... when every time you try, you manage to step in it big time?
"our way of life". That's just a weird phrase. You should change your name to Buford and spend more time trying to scrape the plaque off your tooth. Goodness, you are the reason why so little gets accomplished in NH.
I attended UNH and liked it. I love the hockey program. The players were good guys and Kullen and Umile were top shelf guys when I was there. However, I always resented the nonsensical logic the "frugal" (i.e. unsophisticaed and unevolved) NH residents used to justify underfunding a college that was better than UMass in the 80s and now is morphing into a pretty lousy state school. UNH was the number two state school in New England in the 80s - behind only Vermont. Now its at the bottom.
It's depressing to walk into the Dimond Library, which was out dated in the early 90s, and see that it hasn't improved. You learn a lot about what a college thinks of itself when you simply tour the library. The Dimond is a dump. Every single penny of Morin's $4 million, which he accumulated by working decades in the library, should have been used for renovations. But people like you scoffed at his lifetime of hard work and threw it away on a dumb scoreboard. Is that what you mean by "our way of life"? And you have the temerity to blame Morin for not properly designating his gift. You also propose that Souza or the next hockey coach should go on a search for Lemmings mission to find more private money donors? Clearly, you have never raised money for anything in your life, Chuck. First rule of development? Assume the prospective donors are intelligent and truly want to help if told how to do so.
It's even more depressing to listen to the conman mentality you preach when discussing Morin's $4 million gift. You blame him for trusting UNH with his life savings. How very Eric Stratton of you - "face it, you (bleeped) up. you trusted us"
BTW, not that you have the capacity to understand this, but the reason so many great hockey players came out of Massachusetts for decades was the MDC (i.e. public) rinks that allowed lower middle and middle class kids from urban and working class suburban neighborhoods to play hockey for small money. Plenty of the well off kids learned to skate at those rinks and played their games through high school at state owned and operated facilities. Why? Because the state required them to be open to everyone.
From a UNH perspective, that's Cap Raeder, Umile, jeff Lazaro, the Brickleys, Souza, Regan, Pollastrone, the Cox brothers, Rod Langway, Sean Collins, Saviano, Joe Flanagan and many, many more. How's that for social engineering! I'd imagine it was similar in Toronto and Montreal (according to Jim Montgomery, it was) with their approach to hockey. After all Canada is socialist, right Chuck? And let's not get started on Minnesota and it's approach to having the taxpayers fund hockey rinks. Oh course, NH has ummm let's call it a modest history of developing hockey players. Wonder why......
I'm not the least bit surprised that a flat earther like you, Chuck, has literally spent 5 decades watching college hockey without a clue as to who the players really are and how they got so good at hockey.
