Saturday--April 1st, 2017

AD Ryan Bamford Tweets UMass has already sold more new football season tickets than we did all 2016.

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Former UMass football player and long time Hoosac Valley football coach Joe Doyle to receive the Henry A Butova Awward. Joe Doyle lettered at UMass in 1963 and 1964.

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Football Scoop has a post on how a successful sports program can transform a university. Things have changed at Gonzaga since they became good at hoops. Quote from the article:

"– The endowment has bubbled from $67 million to $212.9 million (217.8 percent)
– Annual fundraising has grown from $13.4 million to $31.1 million (127.7 percent)
– Total donors have grown from 7,006 to 13,261 (a modest 89.3 percent growth)"

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Coastal Carolina, UMass' 2nd 2017 opponent has scheduled two games with South Carolina. The last time the Chants faced the Gamecocks, they lost 70-10. The Minutemen will play Coastal Carolina again in 2018 at Amherst.

Meanwhile, there are allegations that the Chants cheerleading squad have been bad girls.

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