UMass has their game notes for Army up.
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USA Today thinks it'll be an Army massacre Saturday.
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The Boston Herald reports the UMass defense will have a difficult chore against the Army option.
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247Sports reports Don Brown is a top candidate for the UMass head coaching job.
There are apparently some other coaches also being considered.
Whipple, if you remember, was out of football for a number of years before being hired for his second term in Amherst. Don Brown is an active coach who has recently been DC at Michigan and Arizona. Brown is also from the Northeast, so he would like to be here.
Since our move to FBS we have not been competitive on defense. Remember going to Gillette and watching Western Michigan score 63 points? Or Central Michigan running us over?
Under Whipple, his offense worked, and is still working at Pitt. But we never won any of those shootouts. UMass lost the game where Blake Frohnapfel set a MAC passing record.
Recently we had one sack in two games against FCS teams. Granted part of the defense's troubles was the offense went 10-27 in third down conversions against Rhode Island and Maine, but still the UMass defense was not stopping two FCS offenses.
I've always thought defense was the shortest distance to a good football team, but if UMass can't land Brown whoever is chosen needs to make some major improvements to the defensive side of the ball in Amherst.
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