Under the new plan, UAH will provide $650,000 to the projected $1.5 million annual budget cited by the school to have a competitive NCAA Division I hockey program. That leaves $850,000 – or 57 percent – to come from other sources.

Those other sources, Altenkirch said, will come “from a combination of ticket sales, corporate sponsorships, advertising, fundraising, you name it.”

The $650,000 would represent a decrease from recent years, where about $800,000 out of a $900,000 budget would come from direct university support. This means we as a fanbase have a greater responsibility to help this program survive and thrive.

We can do this. You can do your part by donating to the 2012 Hockey Campaign.

http://www.uah.edu/2012hockeycampaign

If you haven’t donated to the cause, now is the time. Any help, no matter how small, is appreciated. We must show prospective conferences that we have the financial strength and backing to be accepted. Conference affiliation is necessary for UAH hockey to have a long term future.

You can also reach the above link through http://www.uah.edu and http://www.uahchargers.com. Charge on!

You may call Dr. Bentley at (334) 242-7100, and you can email through his contact form. If you’re going to be a little cranky, we’d rather that Dr. Bentley hear that than Dr. Altenkirch.

You can email Dr. Altenkirch, but please keep it friendly, courteous, and positive. Altenkirch will be the person who makes this decision, and vitriol is NOT going to help us here. I’ve already emailed him once, and I’m sure that I will again.

Obviously, both of these contact modes work best when coming from Alabamians or UAH faculty/staff/students, but we’ll take help from anyone and everyone. Just remember that we’re essentially asking for a favor.

In light of all this, it’s safe to say that Goon has all our backs. Back to today:

@gfmorris What's with Al.com having like no hockey story that I can find about your team's win last night?

January 30, 2011 1:53 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@goon48

Eric Burton

My response to him was to talk to the Huntsville Times folks. There’s a Twitter account at @HSVTimes_Sports, so I pinged them:

@uahhockey There was a short recap of last night's win on bottom left of the sports front.

January 30, 2011 3:46 pm via HootSuiteReplyRetweetFavorite

@HSVTimes_Sports

Huntsville Sports

Mmmm … yeah. If this is acceptable to you, I would advise you to sit on your hands. Nothing to see here. But if it irks you that an overtime upset of the #15 team in the country on their ice, with our goalie setting a (D-I era) team record for saves with 58, we’d urge you to contact The Huntsville Times about this. John Turner is the sports editor at the Times.

You might want to add that there was no coverage of the Merrimack series in Nashville, either. You might want to be thorough in your thrashing.

Addendum: Please note that The Huntsville Times has exactly zero problem with covering the fool out of the Huntsville Havoc:

[Screenshot taken at 10:55 p.m. night of publication.]

• Ferris State: AD Keri Becker and coach Bob Daniels
• Bowling Green: AD Greg Christopher and coach Chris Bergeron
• Michigan State: AD Mark Hollis and coach Rick Comley
• Ohio State: AD Gene Smith and coach Mark Osiecki
• Wisconisin: AD Barry Alvarez and coach Mike Eaves
• Colorado College: AD Ken Ralph and coach Scott Owens
• Nebraska-Omaha: AD Trev Alberts and coach Dean Blais
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: AD Jim Knowlton and coach Seth Appert
• Providence: AD Robert Driscoll, Jr. and coach Tim Army
• Robert Morris: AD Craig Coleman and coach Derek Schooley
• Cornell: AD Andy Noel and coach Mike Schafer
• Mercyhurst: Joe Kimball and coach Rick Gotkin
• Merrimack: AD Glenn Hoffmann and coach Mark Dennehy
• Bemidji State: AD Dr. Rick Goeb and coach Tom Serratore

Some things to note: especially thank schools that have agreed to come to Huntsville [Ferris, RPI, Providence, Bemidji, Robert Morris, Merrimack (Nashville)]. Big, big thanks go to Ferris for scheduling a home-and-home with the Chargers, and RPI for inviting us to their holiday tournament and then coming down a couple weeks later. Congratulate Bemidji and UNO on making the move to the WCHA this year. Thank Colorado College for continuing to bring us to Colorado Springs. Tell the BG guys that we’re happy that they’ve kept their program alive. Thank Ohio State for agreeing to come to Huntsville next year. Thank Michigan State for sending us first Coach Cole and now Coach Luongo. That should do it as far as thanks go.

Get to emailing!

Job Description:
The Marketing Coordinator is responsible for all marketing related to sponsorships and corporate sales. The position serves as a senior member of the Athletics Department staff assisting in the overall management of marketing and promotion for UAH Athletics.

Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Sports Management) or equivalent experience in athletics or marketing in the private sector/1 year of full-time work experience in a related field/experience in an academic environment or private sector/knowledge of database operation and report writing desired/familiarity with NCAA rules and compliance/ demonstrated management and administrative skills/strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills/previous marketing and promotions experience

The approximate starting salary is $28,000- $30,000.

If you bleed blue and have the requisite background, we’d love to see you apply for this and make it happen!

We posted about the availability of road blue jerseys back in March, and we’d like to let you know that they’re available.

Authentic Road Blues

Road Blues are going to be $175. You need to let us know: size, number, and nameplate. You can personalize this most any way you’d like. [Understand that we'll have to keep you from putting vulgar language and racial slurs on them. By wearing this jersey, you represent UAH.] When you know what you want, send me an email to g@saveuahhockey.com.

Game-Worn Jerseys

There is also some availability of game-worn jerseys from the past few years. Yes, this means that UAH will have new jerseys in 2010-11. Game-worn jerseys will go for $250 each. Here is the availability:

2009-10 Away Jerseys

2 Burkholder
7 Easton
8 Maclean
9 Campbell
11 Ruffini
12 Vassos [Nick ended up not coming]
13 Koudys
15 Baxter
19 Fairbanks
21 Desmet
22 Geoffrion
23 deBruyn
24 Durnie
25 Morrison
27 Bruni
29 MacNicol

2009-10 Home Jerseys

2 Burkholder
7 Easton
8 Maclean
9 Campbell
11 Ruffini
12 Vassos
13 Koudys
15 Baxter
19 Fairbanks
22 Geoffrion
23 deBruyn
24 Durnie
25 Morrison
26 Cseter
27 Bruni
29 MacNicol
31 Griggs

2008-09 Jerseys

6 Ward (away)
18 Kalinchuk (home)
20 Federoff (home)
22 Goodchild (away)
55 Sweazey (home)

2007-08 Jerseys

21 Conter (home)
23 Cook (away)
27 Bruni (home)

We’ll update this post with jerseys as they are purchased. Let me know what you’re interested in and I’ll set it up with the coaches so you can go by and pick it up.

Dear Charger Faithful,

We sent out a save the date memo earlier for our golf outing on June 12, 2010. We have attached the sign up info and look forward to seeing you there. It looks to be a great outing and many alumni from out of town have let us know they will be attending and we always have a great response form our local alumni.

Please call or email if you have any questions.

Thank you and see you at Cherokee Ridge.

Coach Cole

Below is the signup form. I don’t golf, and I don’t know about Will, but maybe we’ll show up to drink beer and heckle those who do.

2010 Charger Golf Tournament Player Form

1. Television: ESPNU will carry the game at 3:00 p.m. Huntsville time. Buffalo Wild Wings on University Drive (Madison Sq. Mall) has indicated to us that they receive ESPNU and would be willing to host UAH fans who wanted to congregate to get the game. I was asked to look into this by UAH students, who don’t get ESPNU on campus.
2. Radio: WTKI (92.9FM, 1450AM) will carry the broadcast. I’m not sure exactly when we’ll be on the air, but I’d figure no earlier than 2:30 p.m. Huntsville time. When I say “we”, I mean Steve Moulton (play-by-play) and yours truly (color commentary).
3. On the Web: We honestly don’t know just yet. We are looking into options for rebroadcast on the Internet, and we’ll update you when we have more information. Update, 1:07 p.m. No Internet broadcast. Too expensive to get the rights.

If you’d like to sponsor the radio broadcast, here are the details:

• $75 a game gets you at least five 30-second spots. If you have a spot already produced, we’ll use that; if not, please work with us and we’ll get copy from you for either Steve or I to produce prior to the game. We’ll also do an unspecified amount of in-game reads to thank our corporate sponsors, and if we go into overtime, additional ads are free as our thanks.
• $50 a game gets you an individual sponsorship. We’ll read your name during the game as a thanks from us to you for your support of UAH Hockey Radio. This is designed for boosters, alumni, team parents, etc.
• If neither of these options works for you, we’ll take PayPal in smaller increments.

As it stands, I’m putting this together in the hopes that we’ll get the costs covered, so financial assistance is greatly desired. We’ve got two corporate sponsors already, and we’re hoping to have at least five.

Several folks, via email, text, Twitter, Facebook, and here on Save UAH Hockey, have asked, “How do I get one of those blue road jerseys that UAH wears?” Your chance to get one of the camo thirds is now gone, but I’ve talked to Coach Cole about doing a run of the blues.

So, if you will, please either comment here, on Facebook, via Twitter, or in an email to g@saveuahhockey.com, let us know: do you want one of the blue road jerseys? We’ll use the interest to gauge the jersey buy and price them accordingly.

All proceeds would, as you’d guess, to go UAH Hockey. Right now, we’d guess on a price point of around $200, but that may come down. Why so expensive? The jerseys themselves—which aren’t replicas, but would be just like a game-worn jersey—run over $100.

Jerseys are no longer available. Thank you for your interest.