Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Wednesday--January 16, 2013

UMass OL coach Ron Hudson has taken a job with former UMass coach Nick Rolovich in Nevada.

Matty V. also has a blog post about Hudson leaving.

Since both Hudson and Kruczek were sharing an apartment in Sunderland during this past year and did not bring their families to Amherst, it would seem that neither were planing a long term coaching career with the Minutemen.

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Talking about recruiting, Scout,com currently ranks UMass' 2013 recruiting class as 7th in MAC, ahead of Western Michigan, Ohio, Northern Illinois, Buffalo, Akron and Kent State.

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A Bleacher Report writer ranks Kansas State's OOC schedule (which includes UMass) as the easiest in the Big 12.

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Patriots.com has a post on the local connections of various Ravens coaches and players. Mentions Clarence Brooks and James Ihedigbo.

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The Boston Globe rarely misses a chance to be negative about UMass sports. Dan Shaughessy has a sour comment about UMass retiring Marcus Canby's jersey.

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