Monday--Dec 13th, 2010

Good morning from gloomy Jaffrey.

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The big News is Tyler Holmes has been named the New England Gold Helmet player-of-the-year. UMass' first award since Dennis Dent won in 1978. Congratulations Tyler!

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FCS football gets another prime time slot as Villanova will play Eastern Washington at 8:00 pm on Friday night. The Delaware-Southern Georgia game will be at noon on Saturday. Details from TSN here.

Sporting news has a report from FCS Senior Scout bowl.

Another report from CBS Sports here.

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Nice human interest story about William & Mary RB Jonathan Grimes.

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I was away Saturday and watched the Villanova-Appalachian State game on DVD Sunday morning.

For the second game in a row, I was impressed with the Wildcats defense. When they get ahead they rush three down linemen and drop their linebackers back. They are absolutely lethal when they do that. Despite rushing only three linemen, the Wildcats still developed pressure on many plays. Once they went into that formation, that was the end of Stephen F Austin and Appalachian State...