Saturday, August 08, 2009

Day-before-traing-camp-opens News

Matty Vautour says a "New era dawns for Coach Morris and UMass Football"

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The Manchester Examiner says the return to glory "Won't be easy for the Minutemen".

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UMass is interested in 6-7 270 pd OT Aaron Kramer from Duxbury, MA. Kramer's ESPN recruiting page here.

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The Wicker Local Natick paper has some information about this year's recruits Tim Bryant and Tom Bryant.

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Lots of UMass mentions in this article about former UMass HC Mark Whipple.

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The word for Kansas State this year is uncertainty.

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In case you missed it Armanti Edwards of Appalachian State tangled with a lawn mower and will be out 2-4 weeks. He had already been on reduced training most of the spring due to shoulder surgery.

Former Michigan QB Justin Feagan may be transferring to ASU.

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In CAA news, Towson who everybody is picking for the CAA cellar, just lost their leading rusher.

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Former Texas Tech WR Michael Crabtree, who we met last year, is holding out on the SF 49ers.

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The on-again off-again NCAA ban on post season games for Delaware teams is on-again. If Delaware is indeed banned from hosting FCS playoff games, it will make a huge impact in the CAA and in the national FCS/I-AA playoffs.

Speaking of the CAA the Daily New Online discusses how strong the CAA has been recently.

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