Thursday--December 6th, 2012

The Hampshire Gazette has moved UMass sports stories behind a paywall. Readers can register and get five looks free a month. That's not a lot.

Like me, most non-Valley readers aren't interested in Northampton news. It's probably going to have a negative impact on UMass sports, who can use all the publicity they can get.

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Former UMass coach Jimmie Reid was fired along with three other Virginia coaches yesterday.

One Virginia recruit has already reopened his recruiting.

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The Eastern Michigan paper "The Eastern Echo" has an article on the seven MAC teams in bowl games this year.

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Steve Addazio is taking a number of Temple assistants to BC. Could Jimmie Reid end up there too?

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Cleveland.com looks at Kent State's Darrell Hazell's moving to Purdue.

Relevant quote from the above article:

"Hazell becomes the 13th former head coach from the MAC in current Football Bowl Subdivision head-coaching positions, including five in the Big Ten and both coaches in this year's BCS Championship Game -- Alabama's Nick Saban (Toledo) and Notre Dame's Brian Kelly (Central Michigan).


Next season, 26 of the 124 FBS coaches (21 percent) would be either current or former MAC head coaches."

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