Twenty-three days before K-state 08/13/09

I meant to mention that the UMass Football Blog blew through 500,000 page views earlier this week.

I'm still looking to give away a very nice UMass Football Blog hat to the person who e-mails me the closest guess to the UMass-Kansas State game. E-mail access is in the "About me" section of the blog.

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Mark Whipple talks about the pressures of coaching.

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Nice story from the Syracuse Post-Standard about Rhode Island RB Joe Casey. He suffered a compound fracture of his leg last season. With Casey out, the Ram were 11th in the CAA and 114th in the nation in rushing offense. Rhody averaged 2.2 yards/rush for 68.5 yards/game.

You will remember the only game UMass' defense looked like the 2006 version was the game at Kingston. With no running threat the UMass defense teed off and had a season high 8 sacks for 55 yards.

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Kansas State's best receiver may be 5-7 Brandon Banks (1,049 yards and 9TD's).

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Brandon London gets a quote and a picture in this article.

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