Thursday, September 11, 2008

Thursday Morning Info

The UMass Daily Collegian says that the defense wants to step it up against JMU. The Collegian also has a JMU game article here.

From the JMU side, the Richmond Time-Dispatch has an article here .

The James Madison student newspaper has a game article here .

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David Coulson has his weekly FCS column "Around FCS" here .

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Keepers has the UMass-JMU game essentially even.

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The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal has an article about Texas Tech QB Graham Harrel's struggles this season.

Oh, and you heard next year's Big Twelve team Kansas State beat FCS/I-AA team Montana State 69-10 last week, right?

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CSN has a list of FCS/I-AA TV and streaming internet games for this weekend.

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Matty Vautour has a blog entry listing UMass' and JMU's records against top ten FCS teams.

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The SME website covers FCS/I-AA football.

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The CSN fan page only lists eight FCS/I-AA football blogs -------- and one of those is run by a newspaper.
FYI the is the UMass Football Blog's 2,156 blog post since June of 2005....

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Human nature is a funny thing. In one of my previous posts I had two news items. One was a story mentioning that a player who had signed a LOI to UMass had been named the MVP of a high school All-Star game. The other was that UMass was interested in, but had not signed a player that had some minor legal problems. There were zero comments on the sure good thing and over a dozen about possible bad thing.

There has been a lot of comment about some of UMass' struggles this year, but no one has mentioned UMass' slick two-minute drive to win the game at Holy Cross. See this article from Smart Football about clock management and why spiking the ball is nearly always a bad idea.