Sunday, January 03, 2010

News ---01/03/10

Good Morning from Jaffrey, NH, or as we locals like to refer to it as "Ice Station Zebra".

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"Col. Hogan" has been pestering me to join Championshipsubdivision.com. I did join yesterday and found that they had a future schedules page. This should be taken with a grain of salt as it's fan generated, but FWIW, it lists three dates for the 2010 UMass schedule.
  • Sept 4th Holy Cross
  • Sept 18th @ Michigan
  • Sept 25th @ Stony Brook (tentative)
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College Sports News says they will be back up shortly.

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"Coaching College Football. That's where a bunch of 19-year-olds run around with your paycheck in their pocket"--- former UMass Coach Jimmy Reid to the Blog in a conversation a number of years ago.

Two ECU player get suspended from the Liberty Bowl by getting into a fight at the bowl awards banquet---over a desert.

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UConn is 3-1 in bowl games since they moved to FBS/I-A football in 2002. The Huskies beat South Carolina 20-7 in the PapaJohn's Bowl.

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The Bleacher report says the Big East Football should expand to 12 teams and add an up-and-coming football program such as Villanova.

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