Thursday, April 16, 2020

UMass Football News--April 15th, 2020


Michael Curtis and Martin Mangram selected to the NFF Hampshire Honor  Society.

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Five major college football conferences ask the NCAA for relaxed Division I requirements. Thanks to the blog reader who sent me the link.

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Conference Commissioners say no college football unless campuses are open.

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Major college football conferences could lose $4 billion if 2020 season is canceled.

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ESPN's Chris Fowler says a normal college football season is "impossible"

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UConn's athletic dept is looking at a significant reduction in revenue.

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FIU football gets creative in home workouts.

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The new normal: FAU CB Meiko Dotson led FBS in interceptions in 2019. He's transferring to Florida State.

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More new normal.

OT, but the A10's woman's Player-of-the-year is transferring to Indiana.

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This year is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13. This site (Apollo 13 in real time) has the first six hours of audio from both Capcom and Mission Control during the accident.

Apollo 13's oxygen tank explodes about five minutes into the tapes. The explosion takes out two of the three fuel cells powering the spacecraft. The remaining fuel cell is leaking. At that point Mission Control has about 90 minutes before Apollo 13 loses all communication and life support...

Turn off the awful talking heads on TV and listen to the riveting teamwork of the astronauts  and Mission control as they struggle to save the crew.

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