Wednesday, July 08, 2009

UMass football news ----- 07/08/09

A Dean College punter chooses Clemson over UMass.

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The Sports Network has started their list of Payton Award Watch list. The first four (of twenty) are here.

They're doing the same thing for the Buchanan Award Watch list. The first four defensive players are here.

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The New Hampshire Football report blogs that Dartmouth has dropped UNH from their schedule after this year.

That will leave only the Rhode Island -- Brown game as the last remnant of the old Yankee Conference- Ivy League series.

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Phil Steele has UMass as #19 in his preseason poll.

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Today's Draft Daddy post has a list of top "Small School" cornerbacks. No UMass players on the list but fans of the Minutemen will see Stony Brook's Chris Williams and James Madison's Scotty McGee at McGuirk.

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