The UMass Football Fanzone frequently hears other UMass faithful express variations of the following:
“I wish:”
- UMass football would win another National Championship
- Go I-A
- Beat the dog snot out of UConn/Boston College/Delaware
Well, the following are not ways to help.
- Never washing the UMass sweatshirt you wore during the National Championship game in 1998 (washing invokes demons of loss)
- Always driving the same route to the stadium the week following a win.
- Sitting on the visitor’s side and shouting comments at the opposing team designed to be hurtful to their self esteem
The real way to help is to join Friends of UMass Football. This is a group of UMass fans, former players and coaches that have joined together to promote UMass football. Among their accomplishments so far are:
- Raised over $300 K, every dollar of which went to improve UMass Football
- Purchased Pinnacle Video Training System (UMass is the first A10 team to have it)
- Represented a constituency for UMass football in the Byzantine world of campus politics *
- Helped complete the 9000 Sq/ft UMass weight training facility.
Every UMass Football fan should belong to Friends of UMass Football. For 2.7399 cents/day you can make a major impact. Click here for information about joining.
* To understand campus politics, it’s hard to beat F. M. Cornford’s 1908 classic Microcosmographia Academica . Read Higher Ed’s review first . Wikipedia has an article with a link to an on-line version. WARNING! If you have been exposed to academic culture, reading Microcosmographia Academica may cause loss of bladder control…
