Three years ago to the day, the University of Maine announced it was suspending its struggling men's soccer team.
According to an April 15, 2009 Bangor Daily News article, the men's soccer program had a $145,580 operating budget and doled out $175,000 per year in scholarship aid.* Besides one head coach and a paid assistant coach, the program included 26 players with 6.5 scholarships spread among them.
The university's 2009 decision forced Maine to become one of 13 states in the U.S. without a Div. I soccer program playing within its borders, according to the sidebar of this December 2011 piece in the The Birmingham News.
- John C.L. Morgan
*Another victim of suspension that year was the women's volleyball team. That team--which included a head coach, a paid assistant coach, and 15 players with 12 scholarships--had an annual operating cost of $232,564 and scholarship aid worth $343,238.
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