UMass Legend Jim Reid hired at Bucknell

Former UMass assistant and Head Coach Jim Reid has been hired as defensive line coach at Bucknell. Read the press release here . He was last working as defensive line coach at Syracuse.

Reid is a great guy and is remembered by the UMass faithful with affection. After nineteen total years at UMass, Reid still bleeds Maroon and White. He was slated to appear at the 3rd annual Friends of Football Golf Classic on August 1,2005. Now, he probably will be at Bucknell improving their defense.

Reid had a highly sucessful career at UMass. Among his accomplishments:

• 12 years as an assistant coach
• Head coach from 1986-1991
• Yankee conference champions three of the six years he was head coach
• 1988 Yankee conference Coach-of-the year, New England Coach-of-the-Year (UPS), New England Division I Coach-of-the-year (Gridiron Club of Boston)
  

The above image is a scan from the 1989 UMass Football Media Guide. Reid is posing with 1988 edition of the "Beanpot" the Yankee Conference Championship trophy.

Note that the Fanzone first read about Reid's hiring on Colgate 13's excellent blog The 13 Yard Line