Saturday News ---- may 29th, 2010

Craig Haley of The Sports Network continues his position series with "The Top Ten Defensive Backs in FCS".

The only CAA player in the group is Richmond's Justin Rogers. UMass fans will get to see him at McGuirk on October 16th.

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The CAA has launched a dedicated CAA Football Blog. Nice!

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Had to accompany Mrs Blog on a shopping expedition to the Big City yesterday -------Keene NH. They have a Borders so I checked out the college football magazines.

I ended up buying Sporting News College Preview as it seemed to have the most non-FBS information. It has nineteen pages covering FCS football. I also looked at (but did not buy) Lindys and Athalon.

Both Sporting News and Lindys have UMass ranked 7th in the CAA.

Sporting News lists UMass opponents Richmond 5th, James Madison 8th, New Hampshire 10th, William & Mary 13th, Holy Cross 14th and Delaware 18th in their preseason Top 25 list. Add Michigan to the slate and that's a pretty strong schedule.

Think Coach Brown is having an effect at Maryland? The Sporting News Preview has four of the top five Terps recruits as defensive players...