Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Tuesday--February 17th, 2014

UMass is featuring the link about prizes for early season ticket renewal. I blogged about this last week. There's some nice football-related prizes and you'll get season ticket renewal out of the way early.

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UMass players took part in the "Athletes love to read" event at Maple School in Easthampton.

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If you're looking to follow Jean Sifrin at the NFL combine, the wide receivers and TE's are the first to arrive, starting today. The Giants Blog "Big Blue" has the Combine details and TV schedule.

Nick O'Malley has a feature on Jean Sifrin on MassLive.

The Boston Herald says Sifrin would be nice for the Patriots.

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Former UMass player and current Troy head coach Neal Brown is first up in this video about prepping for Spring Ball.

247Sports looks at Brown and the new MAC conference hires at Buffalo and Central Michigan.

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SB Nation looks at if any other team can knock Boise State off their seat as the top team in the "Group of Five" leagues.

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Phip Steele loves stats and in this post he looks at how teams did in relation to the average yards given up by their opponent. UMass finished in the top half of the FBS universe.

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Sports Illustrated has how social media is shaking up college football recruiting.

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