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• Anonymous

  In other news the sun came up in the east and the sky is blue. But hey, maybe they’re tanking it so they can draft Andrew Luck?

• http://twitter.com/Ted229 Ted

  It’s time for Timmy to resign.  Really…it was time 4 years ago.

• Anonymous

  Blake James gave his golfing buddy, Whitehead, a sweet 3 year deal before he bolted for sunny Miami………thanks you little weasel!

• Anonymous

  “The Black Bears hit two goalposts and a crossbar in between the goals.”  Yeah, that’s the problem.  

  Fire Timmay.  Hire Jimmy.

• Anonymous

  Former UMaine AD Blake James, let us recall, also renewed Cindy Blodgett’s contract for another year and cost us over $100,000 when she was fired after he returned to that academic meccca, the U of Miami. James cost us far more re the unjustified contract extension to Whitehead with that obscene annual addition to base salary of $5000, regardless of performance. Meanwhile other UMaine employees, including faculty, have had no salary increases for nearly 3 yrs. now and with little chance for any future ones. But former UME Pres. Kennedy has the last laugh: he approved these contract extensions and is enjoying his handsome sabbatical salary while getting an additional $340,000 from the state of Conn.

• Anonymous

  UML deserves all the credit.  Winning on the road in HE is EXTREMELY hard–hence why UMO struggles so much.  Give UML props, as UMO has replaced UML in the bottom feeder standings

• Anonymous

  It’s getting harder and harder to walk around with a maine hockey jersey and be proud of it..

• Anonymous

  What will it take for Tim to realize that he’s just not cut out for running a successful Division One hockey program? I know he’s probably a real nice guy and has got to support his family and it’s tough to start over at his age, but it’s time for him to do the right thing and find another way to make a living. He can hang on until he’s forced out, or he can do the right thing and make the move on his own with his integrity intact. If he really cares about these kids OR Maine hockey, he needs to face reality and do some really hard thinking on his own. But sadly, I’m betting that he’ll stick around, with the team getting progressively worse (if that’s possible from here) until Abbott finally gets around to buying out his contract, and will spend the rest of his life telling himself it was just a normal, temporary slump and if he had just ONE more year…..

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QYOBB7GDZSEQ2WMLQXXNFJYD6E JG

  Mr. Whitehead, have some dignity and resign.  Mr. Mahoney, when will you write a story with the headline: “Time for a change at UMaine.”?

• Anonymous

  And this is why we have UM football.

• Anonymous

  all the emails im sending Whitehead with my nice comments.(HUH)cant figure out why he isnt responding..then again no one else from the A.Ds office has the gonads to respond either

• Anonymous

  If the school can justify a payout on Blodgett’s contract, where the short-term return on investment was far less apparent, then surely the Univsersity can find a way to let Tim go.   As previous posters have mentioned, even a modest improvement in game attendance and season ticket sales would offset the budget hit.   And, as everyone knows, the school has funds set aside for these kinds of things, as unfortunate as they are.

  Tim is a super nice guy, a good family man and, in many ways, has exatly the kinds of qualities you want in a head coach.   Unfortunately, the on-ice performace of his teams have really suffered from several years of very inconsistent and undisciplined play, poor decisions in recruiting and player management and a failure to develop players within his system.   All things considered, the program appears to be “stuck” where every loss and and blown game further erodes the public’s confidence in the coaching staff’s ability to get the program back to being competitive in Hockey East and in the national picutre.    A return to the NCAAs starts with a return to solid play within the conference and the team’s performace in Hockey East has been nothing short of terrible for several years now.

   

• Anonymous

  If this season goes the way I think it will, then Mr. Whitehead should resign if he truly cares about this program.  It’s the honorable thing to do.

  The hockey program is following the WBB program to a tee (outside of making the obvious change that is…)

• Anonymous

  Time for an occupy Alfond until they fire TIMMAY !

• Anonymous

  PPH reported that the coaches were in a meeting held after the game…. is an annoucement coming soon? One can only hope that Whitehead is on his way out and the program on the way up. 

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XLD7RROIE267M22ORJZNVWIYLM Ryan

  I have no idea what Maine does during practice…thats if they do practice, but they really need to work on defense!  Maine would be much more competitive if they had something resembling a d, hell they would have won last night and maybe just maybe Saturday night to.  I also dont get why everybody is saying Tim needs to step down, cause that aint gunna happen, he is getting paid so he aint going anywhere this season.  Abbot needs to grow a pair and get rid of Timmay. 

• Anonymous

  there aren’t enough fans left to even occupy the restrooms

• Anonymous

  Word has it that Whitehead cancelled his BDN this am.

• http://twitter.com/AJWilliams24 Andrew Williams

  I have been hesitant to jump into the “fire Tim Whitehead” conversation but it’s time to join in .  The excuse for a few years there was that we were bringing in top rate talent but it may take them a little while to mesh together and excel at the college level.  Everyone kind of gave the program a little bit of a break.  The problem is none of these highly touted recruits ever amounted to anything and that needs to be blamed on bad coaching and/or bad recruiting…something that Whitehead controls both aspects of.  While other programs always maintain and or improve, we have deteriorated.  Time to make changes and get us back to winning.  

• Anonymous

  That would make everyone’s year!!!  How unprofessional is it to cancel media interviews and keep everyone off-limits to the press!?!?……..what the heck is this, Penn State football? 

  Tim Whitehead needs to be fired yesterday.

• Anonymous

  Amen!  If Merrimack can do what they are currently doing with much less $$$, much worse facilities, much less fan support, and much less history…………

• Anonymous

  It also said the players were made unavailable to the press…..

• Anonymous

  This game made me want to throw up

• Anonymous

  Whitehead fired yet?

• Anonymous

  This program is just about where it was when Coach Walsh took over in 1987.  Yikes –

• Anonymous

  Time for everyone on this post to start contacting the AD on a regular basis and sharing your thoughts.  This just cannot continue:

  steven.abbott@umaine.edu   207-581-1052

• Bruce Hall

  Absolutely!  All season ticket holders should be expressing their displeasure directly to the man in charge. 

• Anonymous

  I was walking around in my sweatshirt tonight thinking… wow I really think it’s time to put this away… I’m embarrassed to be seen in it.