Friday, July 16, 2010

Friday News ---- July 16th, 2010

UMass-UNH tickets for the battle at Gillette Stadium on Oct 23rd go on sale to the general public July 20th.

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The Globe's Albert Breer scouts the Jets and mentions Vladimir Ducasse.

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The College Football Hall of fame has its enshrinement ceremony this weekend (includes bios of Coach Mac and Milt Morin).

The South Bend Tribune has a feature article on Coach Mac.

Matty Vautour has a story about Milt Morin, who was still a fan of UMass football.

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Josh Buchanan will have a Q &A session each week on his blog. Questions from the public will be included.

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There is a new Youngstown State Blog available. It's at http://letsgoguins.com/. I'm not doing a link because it has a flash script that my OS keeps complaining about. It you visit, you should probably turn off Flash.

If you're running FireFox, Sea Monkey or other Mozzilla web browsers, you might consider No Script, which blocks java script, flashlight and other scripts. It will make your web browser a lot more secure.

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This writer ranks the Big Ten's OOC and has UMass as the 5th "worse" game. The writer does not seem to know much about FCS teams. I think Southern Illinois has a chance against Big Ten bottom feeder Illinois (3-9 last year).

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Michigan's Big House could contain the entire population of the US Virgin Islands or it's the 5th largest city in Michigan on game day.



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Today is fifty days until football starts! Wearing #50 for UMass this year will be Josh Samuda, a 6-4 310 pd RS JR OL from Hollywood, FL. Josh has started in 22 of 23 games he's played in. Should start again at LG in 2010.