UMass opens its 2007 season with Holy Cross on Sept 1, 2007 at 1:00 pm. As old timers know, the Crusaders were on of the division's top teams back in the late eighties and early nineties.
The whole Holy Cross athletic program was downgraded by Fr. Brooks and Crusader football fell on hard times.
In the last four UMass-Holy Cross games (92-96), UMass outscored the Crusaders 148-17. After 1996 a series between the two schools that began in 1897 ended. UMass had played Holy Cross 46 times.
Now, with the series being renewed (at least for a time), someone thinks that Holy Cross may win the Patriot League.
The September 1st game may be very interesting. It will show what Holy Cross has and it will show how the Minutemen are set up for 2007. Can't wait!
