Bell related the UMass playbook will similar to Coach Hal Mumme or Mike Leach's lots-of-reps-with-a-limited playbook practice philosophy.
Leach has successful with the Air Raid offense at Texas Tech and Washington State. Leach's Washington State bio. His Red Raider offense led the nation in passing yardage six times with four different quarterbacks. so it was the system, not player. In this system, the running back has to be able to catch the ball out of the backfield.
Coach Bell was asked about recruiting two QB's in 2019. He said he thought two of the current Minutemen QB's would be leaving. Randall West is a red-shirt junior, so he could be on track to graduate.
UMass recruit Andrew Brito is 5-10 180. He threw for 3,071 yards and 30 TD's at College of the Canyons. He also rushed for 175 yards.
Garrett Dzuro is 5-11 200 pounds. He is a good runner who totaled 1,000 rush yards in his senior season.
Current UMass QB Michael Curtis could be the starter in 2019. His body type is similar to the players Bell recruited.
Jaret Pallotta and Josiah Johnson are both 6-5 body types favored by Whipple. However, Johnson ran the wing-t in high school so there is no reason why they could not compete in Bell's offense.
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URI head coach Jim Fleming complains about UMass poaching a couple of the Rams recruits.
Quote from the article:
“I’d love to go play UMass. Let’s go. You think you’re going to be better than us? Put ‘em on the schedule. I’d love to line up against those guys.”
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Thanks to the blog reader who sent me the Driscoll graphic.
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Off Tackle Empire reviews Rutgers 2018 season and looks to 2019.
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