Wednesday News ---- May 2nd, 2010

The Texas Tech blog "Double T Nation" has a profile of former UMass player and assistant coach Neal Brown. Minutemen fans have been following Brown's career since he left UMass.

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The results are in from the AGS preseason poll:

Any Given Saturday Poll Top 25

(First place votes in parenthesis), Points
1. Villanova (81) 2344
2. Montana (7) 2106
3. Appalachian St. (2) 1965
4. William & Mary (3) 1909
5. Southern Illinois (1) 1825
6. New Hampshire 1644
7. Elon 1578
8. Richmond 1414
9. South Dakota St. 1359
10. South Carolina St. 1352
11. Stephen F. Austin 1218
12. Northern Iowa 1028
13. McNeese St. 1011
14. Eastern Washington 1002
15. Delaware 885
16. James Madison 871
17. Jacksonville St. 720
18. Weber St. 639
19. Liberty 582
20. Furman 491
21. Eastern Illinois 480
22. Montana St. 377
23. Cal Poly 319
24. Pennsylvania 277
25. Holy Cross 262


Others receiving votes (minimum of 5 votes): Prairie View A&M (43), Texas St. (41), Northern Arizona (36), Massachusetts (31), Maine (30), Colgate (25), Wofford (22), Eastern Kentucky (20), Lafayette (19), UC Davis (17), Chattanooga (15), Illinois St. (15), Florida A&M (14), Georgia Southern (14), North Dakota St. (13), Central Arkansas (11), Youngstown St. (11), Harvard (10), Lehigh (10), Stony Brook (10), Southeastern Louisiana (9), Albany (8), Grambling St. (7), Dayton (5), Missouri St. (5)

With UMass losing 14 starters and finishing 5-6 in 2009, it would be hard for the Minutemen to crack the top-25 list.
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The Sports Network has a question-and-answer segment with Villanova HC Andy Talley.

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Ninety four days until the start of the 2010 season. Wearing #94 for the Minutemen is Caleb Violete a 6-0 175 pd K/P from Blacksburg VA.

Violette went 1-2 in field goals at Texas Tech. He punted 40-1561 AVE 39.0 63 LONG 8 FC 12 I20 1 Blkd. That was good enough for him to be 2nd in the CAA in net punting average. Violette was fourth in the league in punting average. That was an excellent start to his career.