Friday, January 18, 2019

UMass Football News--January 18th, 2019


UMass announced a number of future schedule changes and additions. Football Schedules.com also has a post on the Minuteman's future opponents.

UMass has added home-and-home with Northern Illinois, and also with Eastern Michigan (four games).

The big news for Minuteman fans is a home and home with Missouri with the
Tigers playing in McGuirk on October 24th, 2024. We've played a lot of SEC teams. Having one coming to McGuirk will be exciting.

UMass will also play a money game at Penn State on Veteran's day 2023.

Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" also has a post on the scheduling additions.

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If you missed it, UMass RB Jordan Fredericks is hanging up his cleats. This makes the return of Bilal Ally even more critical. It also makes the Minutemen running back corps a lot thinner.

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The Eagles sign Marken Michael to a future/reserve contract.

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Coach Bell wants to upgrade the walk-on program at UMass. UMass needs all the recruiting streams it can get..

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