Saturday, August 15, 2015

Saturday--August 15th, 2015

The UMass website has a look-back on AD Ryan Bamford's COA announcement.


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Matty Vautour has a preseason camp notebook. He notes Jamal Wilson is healthy. I would think the TB spot would be Wilson's to lose going into camp. Wilson started the first three games of the 2014 season and against BC, Colorado and Vanderbilt averaged 4.4 yards a carry. He had 1 yard loss.

The other news is UMass will leave early for the Colorado trip in an attempt to minimize the travel and altitude affects of going to mile-high Boulder.

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A CBS Sports article picks the best team in each state. They pick BC over UMass "who just moved up to FBS last season".

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This Daily Journal article repeats the Toledo-vs-NIU article I linked to yesterday, but adds some thoughts about UMass being "on the rise".

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Sport on Earth previews MACtion and has some good words for the Minutemen.

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An Irish gamer uses NCAA 14 to predict Notre Dame's 2015 schedule, swaps out UMass for Army and apologizes to Charlie Molnar.

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Sports Illustrated previews the Group-of-Five conferences and predicts UMass fourth in the MAC East.

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THE BLOG WILL HAVE SOME OF WHAT THEY WERE DRINKING

Blind footballers and Morris Dancers engage in mass brawl.

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