UMass Football News--April 18th, 2024

 The UMass Twitter feed has video on Spring ball with some interviews of players and coaches.

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Gino Campiotti and Cletus Mathurin have been named to the 2024 National Honor Society.

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April would be an excellent time to join the Gridiron Club or the Midnight Ride Collective. Every donation will help UMass football turn the corner and prosper in the MAC.

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Plans for the proposed "Super" league have been leaked. BC, Duke and Georgia Tech from the ACC are left out..

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UMass Football Recruiting 2025--Ethan Kraatz

 

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Ethan Kraatz, a 6-4 280 pound OL from Saginaw, MI has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here.

Hudl,com has video.

NCAS recruiting profile here.

This article covers his visit to Purdue. 

Kraatz has ten offers including several MAC team as well as Army and Navy. He could find a lot of playing time in Amherst with Coach Miller.

UNass Football News--April 16th, 2024

 

The UMass "X" feed has some images from spring practice.

Showing some serious biceps is #2 WR Jacquan Gibson. He's coming off a redshirt injury year in 2023.

 #72 is Ethan Mottinger. He started all 12 games in 2023 for the Minutemen. One of two returning OL for 2024. Mottinger should be an anchor at RT for UMass.

 #11 is graduate transfer Jacobie Keeney-James. For Eastern Washington he had 37 GP 825-61 with 4TD's. In his sophomore year he had a 246-yard receiving game. Keeney-James should bring leadership to the WR room.

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The New England Football Journal interviews Marcellus Anderson

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Former UMass WR Dariyan Wiley has just committed to his fourth school for 2024.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2025--Liam Vaughan

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Liam Vaughan, a 6-3 280 pound IOL from Walled Lake, MI has a UMass offer,

247Sports page here.

Hudl.com has video.

This article talks about his visit to Michigan State.

Spartans Wire also has a post on his visit.

Vaughan has nine offers including four MAC teams and several Ivies. He could play at the FBS level and also get an East coast education in Amherst.

UMass Football Recruiting 2025--Omar Jah

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Omar Jah, a 5-11 180 pound DB from Lewis center, OH has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here.

Hudl.com has video.

This article covers his visit to Ohio State. 

Jah has eleven offers including most of the MAC plus Army and Marshall. Coach Brown takes a personal interest in DB's and has put a bunch of them in the NFL.

UMass Football News--April 12th, 2024

 

The UMass Midnight Ride Collective has their latest podcast here.

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UMass football checks in with Minutemen DC Keith Dudzinski.

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The AAC comissioner says there is room for even more post-season college football.

How about a Group-of-Five playoff?

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EA Sports College Football 25 will be released on July 19th.

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UMass Football News--April 11th, 2024

 The UMass Twitter feed has Josh Atwood mic'd up. Tough to catch all the numbers, but I thought I saw: Josh Atwood, Paul Tchio, Brayden Rohme, Payton Miller, Luke Painton, Wyatt Terlaak, Cole Erickson and Ethan Mottinger.

Atwood and Mottinger started last year. UMass needs to replace Johny Hassard, Cole Garcia and Marcellus Anderson who were the starting LT, LG and RG respectively.

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The UMass feed also has an interview with Minutemen DC Keith Dudzinski. He has good words for transfers Jalen Hudson and Tim Grant-Randall.

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Hero Sports takes a minimalist look at UMass' 2024 schedule.

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2024 opponents Georgia and Missouri are #1 and #10 in this pre-season 2024 ranking

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