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The Maine athletic department is launching a new Web site at www.goblackbears.com. It’s a considerable upgrade from the soon-to-be old site. The new site will be managed by people outside of the school. It will have added features and the potential to help with ticketing and recruiting in the future.
“By not having it, we were starting to get a little behind,” Maine Athletic Director Sue Tyler said. “There’s some fantastic sites out there that we’re competing with.”
The new site will be managed by Dan Parkhurst of sportdesigns.com, who also manages the Web sites for New Hampshire and the Hockey East. The dot com site gives it more interactive options as compared to the edu sites, according to Tyler.
The current site provides information but isn’t always updated. With the new site, the sports information department will be able to e-mail the stats and other information to Parkhurst, who will then post the information. The site will give fans scores, stats and information faster and take the pressure off of Friends’ groups and other athletic department staff.
“We can’t keep up with 19 sports right now,” Tyler said. The new site will also keep fans up to date on every sport, a change from the current situation. The umaine.edu athletic site isn’t updated very often because of a lack of staffing, according to Tyler. With an outside agency handling the material, every sport will have up-to-date information.
The new facets and features to the site are also more technical.
“There’s so much going on on the Web, so much excitement with the banners, and how to put things on the side and how to interrelate them,” Tyler said. “You really need a Web expert.”
