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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:
- Appalachian State
- JMU
- Richmond (the most returning starters in the CAA)
- Eastern Washington
- UMass
- Northern Iowa
- Cal Poly
- North Dakota State
- Wofford
- McNeese State
- Delaware
- Montana
- Youngstown State
- Southern Ill
- Eastern Ill
- Elon (I'm not sure Elon is as good as everyone thinks)
- Georgia Southern
- Villanova (maybe too low)
- UNH
- Montana State
- The Citadel
- Fordham
- Holy Cross
- Harvard
- South Dakota State
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.
