Matty Vautour has an article here about a possible c0ntract for Coach Brown. Brown certainly deserves it. He has brought a new spirit of accomplishment and winning attitude to UMass.This blog also thinks that UMass Athletic Director John McCutcheon should be considered for an extension himself. This Blog goes back 30+ years and for too long in UMass history the AD job was was held by non-professionals----to the great detriment to UMass sports.
UMass legend Marcel Shipp has also signed a contract extension with the Arizona Cardinals. The official Cardinals article is here . There were a number of newspaper articles, but perhaps the best is in the North Jersey Herald here .
The Cards have a Shipp highlight video here (real player).
2 comments:
Yes indeed, the job McCutcheon has done here is spectacular considering what it was when he arrived and as you stated the ineptness of the last 2 or 3 previous regimes! Kudos to the AD!
Tom
I know some UMass fans had issues with Bob Marcum, but I did not. What I was talking about was that he was a PROFESSIONAL AD.
For a long time the AD job was a political plumb staffed by nonentities.
UMass could have been in the Big East. We were unprepared, unprofessional and inept. I remember a newspaper interview of a previous AD. He said "Well, we could make money on basketball, but what's the point?"
Back in the old days the Athletic Dept was run on "country club rules'. At 9:00am "He's not in yet". At 11:00am "He's gone to lunch". At 1:15 pm "He's not back yet" At 3:00pm "He's gone for the day"
Meanwhile Coach Reid was sleeping on friend's floors during recruiting trips to save money...
In 1970 UConn was right where we were. They made a management decision they wanted to win to build support for UConn. They did the WORK, while we took three hour lunches.
What has Conn invested (in non-athletic support) for UConn in the last 15 years? $3 Billion?
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