Wednesday--January 2, 2012

Matty V. has a story about how misinformation about UMass football affected Shane Huber's decision to decommit to UMass.

Grandstanding by members of the facility senate can certainly harm UMass' effort to upgrade. The press laps that negative stuff up. In this case, it probably cost us a fine LB. As Matty says, opposing coaches will be handing recruits  copies of the Globe's article on the facility senate's action for years.

NJ.com has the story about Huber decommitting.

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Florida beat the MAC's standard bearer Northern Illinois 31-10 last night. With the 'Noles loading up to stop NIU running QB Lynch, he had to pass to open thing things up. Instead, he was inaccurate all night going 15-41. Lynch missed open receivers a number of times.

The MAC blog Hustle Belt says the Huskies won by just being there.

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The Idaho Statesman says the new playoff rules will bring big money to the non-BCS leagues.

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CBS Sports says Victor Cruz had a brilliant encore.

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