Rainy Thursday News --- 03/19/09

UMass Football has released its Spring Football Practice dates. Spring Game May 2nd at 1:00pm.

From the UMass website:

"2009 UMass Football Spring Practices
Friday, April 3 - 5 p.m.
Saturday, April 4 - 11 a.m.
Tuesday, April 7 - 5 p.m.
Thursday, April 9 - 5 p.m.
Saturday, April 11 - 9 a.m.
Tuesday, April 14 - 5 p.m.
Thursday, April 16 - 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18 - 11 a.m.
Monday, April 20 - 11 a.m.
Thursday, April 23 - 5 p.m.
Saturday, April 25 - 4 p.m. (After UMass-Syracuse lacrosse game)
Tuesday, April 28 - 5 p.m.
Thursday, April 30 - 5 p.m.
Friday, May 1 - 5 p.m.

Spring Football Game<
Saturday, May 2 - 1 p.m."

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The Wakefield Observer has an article on Martin Hyppolite. UMass recruited him hard last fall.

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Chris Setian, a 5-10 220 pd FB/LB from East Longmeadow will be joining the UNH Wildcats this summer.

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The CAA is repeating its Spring Players Blog that it has run in past years. First up is Patrick Weldon, a LB from the Richmond Spiders. His Richmond bio is here .

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Thursday News 01/23/09

Kyle Havens, the JUCO QB from California, moves to UMass on Sunday. Matty Vautour's article also has some quotes about UMass' twin recruits Tom and Tim Brandt.

Back in the '60s we had five Toner brothers play for UMass, but have we ever had twins? Anyone know?


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David Coulson has FCS news here .

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Lawrence Sidbury, the Richmond DE that kicked Montana's ass in the FCS Championship game, will play in the Senior Bowl tomorrow.

In our game against Richmond, we did pretty good against Sidbury. He had 2UT 4 AT 0.5 TFL. No sacks.

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Travis, from AGS, is again work on his 2009 master schedule site.

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Jack Bicknell, who many UMass fans hoped would coach the Minutemen, is leaving Boston College for the NY Giants.

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Martin Hyppolite, the RB from Wakefield, that UMass was strongly interested in committed to UConn on 01/18/09.

I had blogged about him before .

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Recruiting 2009---Martin Hyppolite Part II

I've blogged before about UMass recruiting Wakefield's Martin Hyppolite.

He ran for 218 yards and four TD's in the big Turkey-Day game against Melrose. (mentions UMass)

Recruiting 2009--- RB Martin Hyppolite

UMass is interested in Wakefield RB Martin Hyppolite 6-1 215 . Boston Herald story here .

His Rivals.com page is here . ESPN page, with writeup here .

He holds scholarship offers from Army, Bryant, Stony Brook and Navy. Getting interest from BC, Oregon, Maryland and UMass.

Boston Herald image by Patrick Whittemor.