Thursday, August 21, 2008

Thursday news 08/21/08

I received an e-mail from Comcast sports about this year's UMass TV schedule. Bob McGovern is all over it on his UMass all-sports blog "Between Mullins and McGuirk", so I'm not going to reinvent the wheel.

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Matty Vautour has an article about UMass being ranked #5 in the Sports Network Preseason poll.

In his Sports Blog, he gives his preseason top 25.

The UMass Football Blog's preseason top 25 runs like this:
  1. Appalachian State
  2. JMU
  3. Richmond (the most returning starters in the CAA)
  4. Eastern Washington
  5. UMass
  6. Northern Iowa
  7. Cal Poly
  8. North Dakota State
  9. Wofford
  10. McNeese State
  11. Delaware
  12. Montana
  13. Youngstown State
  14. Southern Ill
  15. Eastern Ill
  16. Elon (I'm not sure Elon is as good as everyone thinks)
  17. Georgia Southern
  18. Villanova (maybe too low)
  19. UNH
  20. Montana State
  21. The Citadel
  22. Fordham
  23. Holy Cross
  24. Harvard
  25. South Dakota State
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Keeper's has his FCS team and conference power rankings up.

He has UMass ranked #7 in power rankings and he rates UMass' schedule difficulty as #1 in the Division with a predicted 9-3 2008 record.



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UMass has a new cheerleading coach . The cheer leaders do a great job at McGuirk and usually have a squad at the away games. The UMass cheerleading webpage is here (needs updating).

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Did you know the UMass Dance Team has an active Blog with images, video and more? Well they do.

The Dance team is first rate, but their videos could use some improvement. Anyone want to volunteer as their Videographer?

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Matty Vautour has an article about Sean Callicchio's move to center.