UMass Football News--August 19th, 2019

The Blog will be off line until August 23rd. Mrs Blog and I are continuing our Nova Scotia vacation up at Cape Breton National Park at a "rustic" cabin with no telephone or Wi-Fi. I should be back after that as we move down to Digby for the last stage of the trip.

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Rutgers students will reenact the first college football game between Rutgers and Princeton before the UMass-Rutgers game on August 30th.

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Scarlet Nation looks at the first two opponents in Rutgers' season---UMass and Iowa and thinks the Minutemen are the closest thing to a guaranteed win in 2019.

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Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" points out UMass now has 15 three-star recruits for 2020. That's good for the #2 rank in the Independents, slightly ahead of BYU. Recruiting usually takes about two years to show up in the win-loss column, but this is much better than the last two years of Whipple's tenure. Top Group-of-Five teams typically recruit in the high teens to low twenty's in three-star recruits. Coach Bell still has some scholarships to give for the 2020 cycle. Better days should be coming for the battered psyche's of UMass fans.

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The Hartford Courant says there are a lot of opportunities available for freshmen at UConn football.

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