Besides the obvious wins and losses, it seems to me that a league would look at a school's athletic dept structure to see if is comparable with what other league schools have. UMass AD Ryan Bamford is continuing to build a athletic dept that meets the needs of FBS football.
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UMass TE Todd Stafford was arrested Saturday for second degree breach-of-the-peace in Connecticut. Stafford was originally recruited by Coach Molnar as a QB and was switched to TE after Coach Whipple arrived. He did not appear on the two-deep last year.
Dan Malone has a story on Stafford's arrest.
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Dan Malone also has post on some uniform changes for the 2015 season.
As I have said numerous times, I like the all-whites for the road uniforms. The all-maroon is good too.
I dunno about the gray. I did not like the black helmets of the Molnar era. Black accent stripes on the helmets and uniforms are OK we did that back in FCS days.
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Max Moore of Hustle Belt has been previewing MAC OOC games. This time he does Florida International.
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Missouri HC Gary Pinkel says Notre Dame should not get an invite to the college football playoffs because they're not in a conference.
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The Sunbelt Conference tables any expansion exploration until after the 2015 season. Mentions UMass not being in their "geographic footprint". Idaho and New Mexico State are???
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Maddox Sports previews the 2015 Colorado Buffs.
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In yesterday's blog post I mentioned Boston College may have a tough time being bowl-eligible in 2015. Phil Steele released his bowl predictions and the Eagles aren't on it. Nor is UMass, for that matter.
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