Heh. That's pretty much the million dollar question around these parts.
I honestly don't know how any Division-1 coach with a lifetime won-loss record of 98-167 over ten seasons (that being a lusty winning % of .370, and he's been even worse in a weak America East) can continue to maintain his job, but I suspect it might have something to do with a nearly overwhelming sense of apathy regarding U-Maine basketball here (as Maine is one of only 16 schools who have been members of division-1 in basketball for at least 30 years to have never made an NCAA tournament), as in people have become so dulled and mentally fatigued by all the losing that they just don't bother to even care much anymore, and as collegiately speaking, this is first and foremost a hockey state, and massively so, with Black Bears football placing a far distant second behind that, and basketball ranking right down there along the likes of golf or tennis or what have you, but how obviously, that sense of apathy has only been furthered and made all the worse by just how horrible this guy has been, but I'll tell you what, if and when Maine Black Bears basketball were to ever make an NCAA tournament, this state would go absolutely fricken nuts, and rightfully so.
But I really feel like this season, he has bottomed-out so badly that his job is in serious jeopardy, such that I'd be shocked if he survived. That's what happens when you go 6-23, while leading a school to its worst record in 57 years will do to you. And what should add even further to Woodward's discomfort is the fact Maine's new AD, Karlton Creech, who was just hired in January from North Carolina, he was the assistant AD at UNC, and for a guy coming from a basketball shrine like that to a traveshamockery of a program like this, I cannot possibly see Woodward surviving.
