Saturday---July 16, 2011

 Matty V. has a blog post about a Rhode Island article saying that the Sept 17th Minutemen-Rams game will be on Comcast TV.

With UMass moving to the MAC and Rhode Island cutting scholarships and dropping down to the NEC, this will probably the last meeting between the two schools. The series began in 1903 and has been played 85 times---the most of  any UMass opponent. The Minutemen hold a 47-36-2 lead in wins.

He also has a blog post about Arizona offering its fans a chance to play NCAA Football 2012 on its stadium video board and speculates about doing the same thing at Gillette.

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This article mentions former AIC AD and UMass player Bob Burke. He won letters for the Minutemen in 1962, 1963 and 1964.

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The Gazette has a story about the UMass Police Mounted Patrol and mentions their sometimes use at McGuirk. In that case, we have UMass police sitting on horses watching the traffic jam as opposed to having UMass police standing on the sidewalks watching the traffic jam.

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Sean Shapiro of TSN's "In the FCS Huddle' talks about FCS Presbyterian (enrollment 1,200) playing at PAC 10 California (2010 undergraduate enrollment 25,240).

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Syracuse's Jim Boeheim reacts to Rick Pitino's  proposal of  breaking the Big East into two divisions, one with all the FBS football schools and one with the basketball and FCS football teams.

The original comment from Pitino was on his blog.

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