A resolution is expected one way or another this week between the University and the greatest coach in NFL history, but the sides have met multiple times and Belichick reportedly turned over a 400-page "organizational bible" on how he'd run the program. Not something one would do if they're just going through the motions or having casual conversations.
While I would maintain that Maine is a basketball state through and through (just see the high school basketball tournament) when Maine hockey is rolling, they're the top story in town.
Since making a run to the National Semifinal in the 2018 season, the program has compiled a 18-31 record with just one winning season, which came in Nick Charlton's final year (2021, 6-5).
In the span of about 15 hours Wednesday night into Thursday morning we learned that a pair of G.O.A.T.s would no longer be manning their posts. First it was Nick Saban shocking the sports world by quietly announces his retirement, then the following morning Bill Belichick stood at the podium alongside Robert Kraft to announce the two had mutually agreed to part ways...