UMass Football News--April 2nd, 2020

College football extends the recruiting dead period through May 31st. Coaches can call, text and write recruits, but in person contacts are banned. In addition, recruits can not take visits to the school while the ban is in effect.

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This article covers various contingency plans for an abbreviated college football season. One option would be teams would play a league-only schedule. That would leave independents like UMass hanging out to dry. An Independent "home and home" with each of the other Independents?

The Minutemen played a four game schedule in the Fall of 1945. UMass beat Maine twice, tied Amherst and lost to Brooklyn.

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Yahoo Sports says the deciding factor on if college football will be played in 2020 is if the campuses reopen for students.

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CBS Sports looks at potential college football training starts of June 1st, July 1st and August 1st.

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Despite the Corona Virus, Troy football has high hopes.

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FIU coach Butch Davis is using the Panthers recent success as a recruiting tool.

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DraftKings predicts Auburn will get 9 wins in 2020.

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Hugh Freeze and the Liberty football staff are working through a "very weird time".

Freeze is in favor of a June "mini-camp" to get things organized if Fall practice is going to be allowed.

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