Photo by Seth Poplaski Back in June during Tom Brady’s Hall of Fame induction at Gillette Stadium, Randy Moss got an impromptu standing ovation that was one for the highlights of the night. It’s probably safe to assume that somewhere in the 40-ish thousand people that were in attendance that night, a few were from Maine and probably followers of Maine football. I mean, it’s Maine,  I feel like if…

The Black Bears are back. Ok, maybe not all the way back, but Maine has suddenly become a program no one wants to face on a week-to-week basis, especially if you’re a ranked team in the CAA. A couple weeks ago, the Black Bears traveled to perennial power (and now FBS-bound) Delaware and upset the Blue Hens. This past Saturday during a beautiful homecoming weekend in Orono, Jordan Stevens’ team…

For three seasons now, Maine head coach Jordan Stevens has preached what many new coaches do when they take over a program. The process. It’s been six years since the Black Bears won the CAA and made the postseason. Maine still has a ways to go when it comes to competing for either of those things again, but knocking off the No. 21 ranked Great Danes on the road to…

It wasn’t pretty, but when you’re a once proud program looking to restore tradition and respect, you take them any way you can get them. Maine just barely squeaked out a 17-14 win over a very good Colgate team at Alfond this past Friday, but winning by any means necessary was an important step forward for the Black Bears and head coach Jordan Stevens. “I think it was really just…

Images courtesy of @BlackBearsFB At first glance, you could look at the 17-14 score by which Maine beat Colgate on Friday night and say ‘that’s it?’ But, at the end of the season they don’t ask how you won, just how many. The Black Bears were actually out-gained 303-287 and the Raiders had 129 yards on the ground, but when you haven’t won many games for a while now, you’ll…

It’s Year 3 of the Jordan Stevens era and there’s a belief around Orono that the Black Bears may be coming to life again. The excitement around the program hasn’t been this high in quite some time and there’s reason to believe that Maine could soon be pushing to contend in the ultra competitive CAA again. During Wednesday’s virtual Media Day appearance, the Black Bears were represented by Stevens, defensive…

The Maine football program was the first local team to unveil all of its training camp dates beginning in just a couple of weeks. We’re officially in ‘it’s almost here mode’ and the Black Bears were able to wet their fans appetite a bit with the release on Friday. Not only that, but Maine is actually inviting fans to attend every practice, which is something many teams do not do….