Tuesday, September 07, 2010

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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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lets keep the kids OFF the field!
Did anyone see the football land in the field during the game???
Also exetemely dangerous to have them at the sidelines

Anonymous said...

from the top roww sec 16

ok not one to knock on other teams but in reviewing some scores did anyone notice that Montana beat Western State 73-2 AND due to a lightning delay of over 1 hr in the second period both teams agreed NOT TO PLAY THE LAST 5 1/2 MINUTES of the 2nd qtr? So it could have been worse?

Cripes the Griz Boys just keep on padding their schedule each and every yr while CAA teams up and down the conference play challenging non-conf games.

Will get back on supporting the good guys but just wanted to share some on this

Anonymous said...

Wonder if Hill will see playing time this week, because Havens did not impress anyone with that performance.

Anonymous said...

Hill will be redshirted unless Havens tanks or is injured. Morris would like to red shirt him at all possible costs. Havens played well, except for that 4th down play. I was happy the way Havens played against a high quality team & defense. He managed the offense well. If he does that every game, we should be sniffing the playoffs..

Anonymous said...

notice how montana loses every year in the playoffs to a CAA team. they play a joke schedule.

Anonymous said...

I read that Flanagan was moved over to D-Line due to a foot injury on Thompson. FLanagan is playing well but we could use some depth as the season moves on. Does anyone know if the injury is season ending?

Anonymous said...

Lose every year in the semis or finals. I'd take it.

Anonymous said...

I would think Ian Shultis might play if Havens isn't up to snuff. I agree, Hill is going to be redshirted. Great game.

Anonymous said...

hill is with the two's if Haven's went down Hill would be in without a doubt Thompson I believe should be back around week 5 or 6

Anonymous said...

Hill is with the Two's but in reality it would depend on when Havens went down and the severity of the injury. If Havens got injured and it looked like a long term injury then i think Hill would go in. But if it were just something where he was banged up for a bit i think it would be Shultis so as to not risk breaking the red shirt of Hill.
Also remember people Montana is kinda isolated and seeing as there is only ONE team in the entire Div 1 FCS that actually breaks even and that's Delaware. Every other team loses money (UMASS operates at about 2 million lost per season) so Montana can't afford to play a tougher schedule because the travel costs would just be enormous