Tuesday before Holy Cross--Sept 7th, 2010

A whole bunch of stories about Victor Cruz making the Giants: Victor is rewarded, He's assigned #80 on the regular roster, he had tears of joy.

The Giants website has a story about Cruz "From long shots to big shots".

MassLive.com says Victor Cruz and Marcel Shipp are keeping an eye on each other.

The UMass Daily Collegian has a story featuring former UMass (and now Ravens) RB Matt Lawrence.

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UMass moved up to #18 in the The Sports Network's FCS poll. Complete poll here.

UMass was ranked #20 in the FCS Coaches Poll.

Matty Vautour has an article about UMass' jump in the polls and says both Emil Igwenagu and Staphane Milhim have ankle injuries, but should be available for Holy Cross.

He also has a blog post about Mike Mele's role in Tyler Holmes' interception that sealed UMass' win over William & Mary. I also watched the game on Comcast. Remember when Coach Brown use to say: "Follow your reads and they will take you to the ball!". I thought of that while watching the game. On every running play, Mele took a step towards where Grimes was heading--- sometimes he took that step before the Tribe snapped the ball. Nice reads by the senior LB.
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For the first time since November of 2008, UMass players captured both the Offensive and Defensive CAA players-of-the-Week, with Jonathan Hernandez and Tyler Holmes winning the respective honors.

The CAA has its weekly press release up. Guess who leads the CAA with alumni in the NFL?
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Vilanova took a big hit when they lost their only returning starter on the DL to a torn ACL in the Temple game.

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SeaCoast Online talks about UNH's big challenge with Pitt this week.

New Hampshire a running team? They had 313 rushing yards against CCU on Saturday.

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The Boston Globe says there are new leaders at Holy Cross. The Crusaders won big against Howard, but fell to "others receiving votes" category in the FCS polls.

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Speaking of rankings, Keepers has UMass up to #3 in his weekly FCS rankings. The Blog feels that's probably a little high.

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