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University of Maine 2024–2025: Freel-ing good

umhockey91 said:
Maine should absolutely add men's soccer if that opportunity ever arises in the future! I mean freakin Vermont just won the National Championship and a brand new soccer stadium will open on campus this fall. Duh!
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Maine had mens soccer when I was there back in 2008. I think they got rid of it a year or so later.
 
Sparkee said:
With UConn opting in they will likely assure him more money.
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I don't think that's necessarily the correlation. People seem to assume that "Opting In" teams all have $20.5 million and it will be paid to athletes in all sports. I think that the former is likely untrue and the latter is definitely untrue. The University of Texas absolutely will max out their revenue sharing. The University of Texas will absolutely not be giving any of that money to the men's tennis team. That's going to football first, football second, and football third. Maybe there will be a bit left for men's basketball, and maybe they will throw some dollars at a few women's sports for PR purposes.

St. Joseph's (Philly, not Standish) recently announced they are opting in. St. Joe's isn't going to have anything close to $20.5M to spread around. St. Joe's might have $2,000,000 to spread around. St. Joe's will likely spend it all on hoops. Opting in does nothing for St. Joe's baseball.

For UConn, there was a ctinsider.com article in April that suggested UConn was hoping to get about halfway to the $20.5M number. After men's and women's basketball and football are taken care of, how much money is going to be left for hockey? UConn also has competitive baseball, soccer, field hockey, etc. Does hockey jump them in line?

Now, could Marques be getting more NIL money from UConn? Undoubtedly. But Maine can still give out NIL dollars despite opting out.
 
amkirby10 said:
I think I like the Bennett add to the staff. Any time you can get a former national championship head coach on staff as an assistant, I think you take that.
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It seems like he is over-qualified. Maybe it is a stepping stone. Appears like a great get for Maine if Fortier is leaving.
 
AMC said:
Now, could Marques be getting more NIL money from UConn? Undoubtedly. But Maine can still give out NIL dollars despite opting out.
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So you agree he gets more money going to UConn. I don’t see how he could be getting less than if he went to Maine. If Maine had opted in, maybe… but seems we won’t know how that battle would have played out since Maine opted out(putting them at a clear disadvantage to opt in teams). My guess is only Vermont, Maine, and UNH opt out. Not sure about Lowell. They may as well.
 
Sparkee said:
So you agree he gets more money going to UConn. I don’t see how he could be getting less than if he went to Maine. If Maine had opted in, maybe… but seems we won’t know how that battle would have played out since Maine opted out(putting them at a clear disadvantage to opt in teams). My guess is only Vermont, Maine, and UNH opt out. Not sure about Lowell. They may as well.
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Very likely the four AE schools with hockey make the same decision.
 
Sparkee said:
So you agree he gets more money going to UConn. I don’t see how he could be getting less than if he went to Maine. If Maine had opted in, maybe… but seems we won’t know how that battle would have played out since Maine opted out(putting them at a clear disadvantage to opt in teams). My guess is only Vermont, Maine, and UNH opt out. Not sure about Lowell. They may as well.
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You've missed the point. There are two buckets of money.

BUCKET ONE: Revenue sharing. This money is what it sounds like, a sliver of the overall money earned by the athletic department in media payments, ticket sales, concessions, etc. This is reserved for schools that opt-in and is capped at $20.5M for the entire athletic department. Schools are not required to spend all $20.5M. Schools aren't even required to spend $1! There is going to be a wide gap between opt-in schools. It's unlikely many schools opting-in will be spending much on hockey. Some will (Denver, for sure). Some won't (I can't imagine Ohio State spends any of its $20.5M on hockey). Some will fall in the middle (Minnesota?).

BUCKET TWO: NIL. NIL is money paid from a third party to an athlete for endorsements (nominally). This is completely detached from the opt-in and opt-out decision. Every school can organize as much NIL as they want whether they opt-in or not. Maine could go to LL Bean and organize $40,000,000 in NIL money available to its athletes even though Maine opted out. There's no cap.

My point is that UConn, despite being an opt-in school, is unlikely to be making much money from Bucket One to its men's hockey players. They aren't going to have the full $20.5M, they are going to need to spend a lot of money on men's and women's basketball to keep those programs at a level to win national titles, they still have an FBS football program, and they have like 10 sports they are trying to win at. I'd imagine that any money being made available to Marques is coming from Bucket Two. And Maine can spend money from Bucket Two just like UConn.

There are going to be "Opt Out" hockey schools that have higher roster "payrolls" than "Opt In" hockey schools. North Dakota is going to outspend Notre Dame on ice hockey, for example.
 
NorthMike said:
Soltys is gone, would it be his replacement?
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Link looks like it was taken down so maybe a too-early jump by reporter. That said, I ran into Fortier's dad in-line for HEA final back in March and he was wearing a hat of an OHL team (I think Soo Greyhounds), so a move to the OHL eventually wouldn't surprise me from him.
 
tylerzx2002 said:
I don't 100% recall the circumstances of his resignation from Union, but remember thinking at the time it was very sudden.

I am familiar with Bennett's rep as a tough coach but wondering how much of that played into him leaving.
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Bennett’s resignation follows “an allegation about his coaching style and practices that was substantiated through an investigation by the college,” according to a news release.

Not sure if the allegations ever made it into the day light.
 
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