To whomever said that Shawn Walsh is hockey's Jerry Tarkanian,  that
seems just a LITTLE off base to me.   I have been a completely neutral and
uninvolved observer of this story for the past years,  and to me it seems
that if big-time football and B-ball were held to the standards applied to
the Maine hockey program quite a few schools would have their revenue
streams dry up overnight.   Walsh may be guilty of misconduct,  but the
offenses simply were not in the same league (or planet) with Tarkanian  --
or Miami,  or Alabama,  or Southern Methodist for that matter.   And in my
opinion they weren't enough to get him fired.   And let's be honest.   Walsh
has a lot of good and attractive qualities which Maine obviously did not
want (or should have) to lose.
 
     -- Dick Tuthill
 
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