Friday News---April 2nd, 2010

The Spring edition of the UMass football roster is up. A quick look at changes include:

Deletions:

• Michael Binkoski OL
• Nick Haag LB

Additions:

• Galen Clemons RS FR DL 6-2 225 from Central Michigan
• Anthony Dima RS FR 6-7 271 from Hofstra
  
• John Griffin SR TB 6-0 208 from Northeastern
• Chad Hunte SO LB 6-0 205 from Northeastern
  
• Anthony Nelson SR WR 5-10 180 from Hofstra
• Greg Niland RS SR OL 6-5 305 from Northeastern

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2010 UMass recruit Matt Campbell will sit out spring sports at Attleboro to rehab from a high ankle sprain.

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Montana is looking at jumping to FBS football in the near future.

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UNH's Sean Ware and Scott Sicko have NFL dreams.

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One of the most-linked-to college football blogs, "The Blue Gray Sky" (Notre Dame) is going silent.
That blog is only about six months older than this one.

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Tuesday News ---- 04/14/09

David Coulson has a long "Around FCS" column in which he picks the top 25 FCS NFL Draft prospects.

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At Kansas State, the Wildcats want to return to glory.

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The Maine Black Bears have their Spring prospectus up (pdf).

Rhode Island's former All-CAA RB Joe Casey has recovered from the broken leg he sustained last season.

Down in Virginia, all eyes are on James Madison.

New Hampshire looks to improve on defense.

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Sunday News -------- 03/08/09

UMass Football recruit Christian Birt is not bad on the basketball court either.

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ESPN has the pro-days for FBS/I-A schools here.

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Pat Tillman has been nominated for the College Football Hall-of-fame.

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Saturday news --- 03/07/09

The 28,000 student University of Texas at San Antonio, the second largest campus in the Texas State school system, is gearing up to join FCS/I-AA.

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David Coulson of The Sports Network has his most recent "Around FCS" column here.

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If you did not hear, the NCAA dropped the Hammer on Florida State yesterday.

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In Alabama, they want to penalize students who don't go to the football games.

Knowing college students, they are probably busy studying.

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New Hampshire is still recruiting.

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Tuesday Telex ----- 02/24/09

Two former UMass administrators, Bob De Carolis of Oregon and Thorr Bjorn of Rhode Island share the Harold J. VanderZwaag Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UMass Sports Management Program.

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Former UMass DE/LB Mike Dawson has been hired by the Boston College Eagles as an assistant special teams coach.

BC Blogger "Eagle in Atlanta" comments .

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Brandon London has been re-signed by the Miami Dolphins .

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Questions and Answers with Richmond RB Josh Vaughn.

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Former UMass assistant coach Robert Talley is being mentioned as possible replacement HC at Rhode Island.

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BTW, former UMass WR Neal Brown did interview for the UMass Head Coaching job last month. Brown is still the youngest OC in DI football.

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Delaware and Delaware State will play their first ever regular season game this year.

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Saturday sendings 02/21/09

UMass and UCal Berkley have joint patent rights to a technology that may transform your data storage.

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David Coulson of The Sport Network ruminates about changes in the Ivy league and the end of the Gaels Football Team.

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C.W. O'Brien of the Bleacher Report says the BCS will never have a playoff.

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The UMass-Holy Cross series takes a year off, but you may be interested in the Crusaders Spring Outlook anyway.

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James Madison has its official 2009 schedule up, confirming that the Dukes will play at McGuirk on November 19th.

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Texas Tech's super receiver Michael Crabtree didn't measure up at the Combine.

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The Music City Bowl of Vanderbilt against Boston College bombed financially.

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Six days until Letter-of-Intent Day 01/29/2009

Adam White of the Bennington Banner remembers Mark Whipple.

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A couple of Albany players have NFL hopes.

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College basketball tanks in the Big Twelve.

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Sometimes the buddy system works in football recruiting.

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I first read a couple of these links on the Double T Nation and The Wiz of Odds blogs.

Eight Days until Letter-of-Intent Day 01/27/09

The Miami Herald says it's official: Mark Whipple has been named OC at University of Miami.

Recruiting is intense in Hurricane-land.

So is recruiting quarterbacks, ya never know how it'll turn out.

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Nine days into the coach search

According to the Boston Globe, Jack Bicknell, Jr. has emerged as the leading contender for the UMass Head Coach job.

Bicknell is probably the highest profile coach mentioned in the UMass coaching search. Recruits won't know him, of course, but their coaches will.

UPDATE: UMass will interview Bicknell this weekend. Matty Vautour also reports on some other coaches not mentioned before.

UPDATE II: Matty Vautour mentions that McCutcheon has met with or spoken with a number of coaches recently. I've published links for Jack Bicknell, Jr, Mark D'Onofrio, Neal Brown, Tom Gilmore, Kevin Morris and Tom Masaella (scroll down). New to the mix are:

• Geroge Barlow, DC James Madison
• Frank Hickson, RB Coach Liberty

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Would we be interested in Iowa QB Jake Christensen? He's transferring.

Former Louisville QB Matt Simms is also available .
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Speaking of recruiting Utah, which did not have a recruiting class rated higher than #55 in the last five years, finished second in most FBS rankings.


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