Saturday---February 19, 2011

MassLive.com's Alyssa Creamer has an article on UMass' on-going interest in moving up to the FBS level. She reports that UMass will make the decision in March. She also reports UMass would spend two years as a transitional team not one.

The Blog is not sure why everyone has been so antsy about the announcement. UMass has not received the formal invitation yet, so it would be hard to make any announcement without the invite. Reading between the lines, it seems as if things are progressing favorably.

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Former UMass assistant coach (1998-2000) Jim Bradley has been named HC for Monsignor Farrell HS in NY.

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Remember last week I did a post on future UMass scheduling, and said the hopes of a UMass-Notre Dame game some day was a pipe dream because the Irish were scheduled so far in the future? Maybe not...

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Sports Illustrated comments on the Tree Terrorism Incident at Auburn this week.

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UMass added two players  (Jarvis Bentley and Ryan Campbell) from Carver HS in Georgia this year. MaxPreps has an article on how Carver coaches were able to obtain college offers for 20 of their players.