The stadium lights are energizing the attendance at UMass football games. 1999's average of 14,688 was the record. See this article by Jeff Thomas.
When I attended the 2003 UMass game against Kansas State, a K-State fan said the Cats made about $1 million per home game. Delaware, with a 22,000 seat stadium averages about half that.
Last Saturday's game with 15,767 had to have made a profit for the athletic dept. It's not just the ticket sales. I bought a coke and it was $2.50/bottle. While it's unlikely that the students spent any money, the rest of the crowd probably did.
UMass AD John McCutcheon wrote a thank you to the fans and students here .
The average attendance of CAA teams are as follows:
22,112 - Delaware
16,142 - James Madison
15,767 - UMass (92.5% capacity)
10,469 - William & Mary
8,604 - Villanova
7,215 - New Hampshire (111% of capacity)
6,769 - Richmond (only 31% of capacity for top-five team in the nation)
5,609 - Hofstra
4,807 - Maine
4,589 - Towson
4,449 - Rhode Island (surprise 67% of capacity)
1,137 - Northeastern (only one home game so far)
Teams in red are meeting the minimum standards for a FBS/I-A team.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Recruiting 2009 ---- Hunter Blackmore
UMass is interested in 6-3 250 pd center Hunter Blackmore from Kenwood HS in Kent WA. He's a Scout.com two-star player.
His Scout.com profile is here .
Blackmore's ESPNU writeup is here .
Also interested are Hawaii, Washington, Harvard and Yale.
His Scout.com profile is here .
Blackmore's ESPNU writeup is here .
Also interested are Hawaii, Washington, Harvard and Yale.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Tuesday News 10/07/08
Keepers Football Ratings has us at #2 in FCS , and a 7+ point favorite over Northeastern .
Matty Vautour has an article about our CAA North rival New Hampshire .
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Josh Jennings received his second CAA Defensive player-of-the-week honors from the CAA. Note that Jennings is the leading tackler in the CAA with 20 solo 22 Ast 53 total and 10.6 tackles/game. He leads the next leading defensive player by seven tackles.
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I mentioned before the Delaware game that the Hens had lost a number of players to injuries. During the UMass game they lost some more .
The Hens are looking at fixing their offense and everything is under evaluation .
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Brockton's Nate Thellen is playing well for Northeastern .
The Huskies crushed Towson last week .
Northeastern's QB Anthony Orio is a finalist for the Draddy Trophy, which is given to the best player with a combination of academics and athletics .
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Matty Vautour has an article about our CAA North rival New Hampshire .
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Josh Jennings received his second CAA Defensive player-of-the-week honors from the CAA. Note that Jennings is the leading tackler in the CAA with 20 solo 22 Ast 53 total and 10.6 tackles/game. He leads the next leading defensive player by seven tackles.
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I mentioned before the Delaware game that the Hens had lost a number of players to injuries. During the UMass game they lost some more .
The Hens are looking at fixing their offense and everything is under evaluation .
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Brockton's Nate Thellen is playing well for Northeastern .
The Huskies crushed Towson last week .
Northeastern's QB Anthony Orio is a finalist for the Draddy Trophy, which is given to the best player with a combination of academics and athletics .
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Monday, October 06, 2008
UMass-Delaware Picasa Web album
Click on the image above and Blogger displays a larger view.
Click here for a 44-image Picasa Web album of the UMass-Delaware game .
Monday Morning stuff 10/06/08
The Boston Herald says the UMass defense made a stand .
The UMass Daily Collegian has an article on the big win against Delaware . And another article on the defense stepping up .
Matty Vautour has the defense riding to the rescue .
He also has an article about the return of John Higginson to McGuirk stadium .
UPDATE: CSN has a FCS recap of the weekend's games here .
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Sunday after the Delaware Win
Click on the image and Blogger displays a larger view .The Boston Globe has a game article here .
The Boston Herald said we rounded up the Hens .
The Worcester Telegram said the defense came alive .
The News-Journal in Delaware has some game notes and a game article here . They also said (as I did) that it was not as close at it looked .
The Philadelphia Inquirer said Delaware did not capitalize on UMass mistakes .
Matty Vautour said the defense shined .
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The CAA has recaps and boxscores for all the CAA games here .
Current league standings here .
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Texas Tech crushed Kansas State in their Big Twelve opener 58-28. Details from the Double T Nation blog.
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Albany won its opener in league play .
Holy Cross, which had lost two game by four points, lost in overtime to Yale .
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UPDATE: This quote is from the UMass game blog "
Lots of UMass football alums in the house today. Breyone Evans, Matt Stolte, Biff Gotthrer, Brad Listorti, Tracy Belton, Rasheed Rancher, Brandon Freeman, Mike Omar, and Christian Koegel are all down on the sideline."
Saturday, October 04, 2008
UMass stops the Hens 17-7
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Image by Mark Campbell from the Hens website.Just back from the game and UMass handled the Hens 17-7. The score does not indicate how much we controlled the game.
The defense shined as they kept last week's intensity and had a lot more to show for it. We held Delaware to 10 first downs and only three in the second half. After their first drive of the game they did nothing. Jeromy Miles jumped a Hen pass rout and sealed the game with a 52 yard TD interception. Josh Jennings had a great day with 15 tackles and George Byrd also had a strong day for the linebackers with 9.
The offense moved the ball on the the tough Hens defense all day. We rang up 24 first downs and 459 yards of total offense.
Tony Nelson was the best player on the field with 23 caries for 163 yards and a 7.6 yards/carry average. Korrey Davis looks like the next featured UMass RB as he averaged 5.7 yards/carry.
Liam Coen had a uncharacteristic bad day with three interceptions and he fumbled a snap that helped blunt another drive. The Hen secondary dropped at least one other interception.
All in all, a very satisfying win against the Hens.
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The later starting times are doing wonders for our attendance.
1. Albany 15,112 (and school had not opened yet)
2. Delaware 16,422 (largest regular season attendance since November 26, 1974)
3. Average attendance 15,767 ( 92% of capacity!!!!)
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UMass athletic dept write-up here .
Delaware athletic dept write-up here .
Springfield Republican article here .
WILM radio article here .
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I'll be back tomorrow with more news and a web album.
Game day ------ Delaware
Big game today against the Delaware Blue Hens. the losing team goes to three losses in five games. Making the playoffs with that start would be difficult. In 1999, UMass lost three of their first four against New Hampshire, Toledo and Hofstra and still made the playoffs. But they had to win seven in a row to do it.
Beat the Hens today and the road will be much, much easier.
Bob McGovern over on his excellent UMass all-sports blog "Between Mullins and McGuirk" thinks so too.
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Bruce Dowd of the CSN has his weekly "The CAA Today" column here . He's picking UMass.
The Boston Globe has an article about how the defense hopes to improve .
The Boston Herald has an article on UMass' first home game in a month .
The News-Journal has a game article from the Delaware side .
The Bennington Banner has a UMass-Delaware game article here .
Jeff Thomas of the Springfield Republican says the defense must make a stand .
Matty Vautour says that McGuirk stadium is looking good to the Minutemen right now .
The Sports Network has its FCS Week six predictions here .
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CN8 live internet video feed gives Dartmouth at Penn at noon and UMass Vs Delaware at 3:30.
If CN8 does not work for you, try channelsurfing.net.
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The weather looks good. Partly cloudy in the low sixties. Perfect football weather.
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UPDATE: Mesa College OL Tevor Wikre gives his all for his team .
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Go UMass!
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Beat the Hens today and the road will be much, much easier.
Bob McGovern over on his excellent UMass all-sports blog "Between Mullins and McGuirk" thinks so too.
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Bruce Dowd of the CSN has his weekly "The CAA Today" column here . He's picking UMass.
The Boston Globe has an article about how the defense hopes to improve .
The Boston Herald has an article on UMass' first home game in a month .
The News-Journal has a game article from the Delaware side .
The Bennington Banner has a UMass-Delaware game article here .
Jeff Thomas of the Springfield Republican says the defense must make a stand .
Matty Vautour says that McGuirk stadium is looking good to the Minutemen right now .
The Sports Network has its FCS Week six predictions here .
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CN8 live internet video feed gives Dartmouth at Penn at noon and UMass Vs Delaware at 3:30.
If CN8 does not work for you, try channelsurfing.net.
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The weather looks good. Partly cloudy in the low sixties. Perfect football weather.
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UPDATE: Mesa College OL Tevor Wikre gives his all for his team .
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Go UMass!
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Friday, October 03, 2008
One Day before the Blue Hens Game
Well, the Blog and Mrs. Blog are back. Somewhat jet lagged but ready to go. Had a great time on our vacation, but it's time for more UMass football.
Jeff Thomas of the Springfield Republican has an article here .
This is a big game and Matty Vautour says the fate of both teams could hang on Saturday's game.
He also has an article on Delaware-to-UMass transfer Ray Jones transfer here .
A recent article (28 minutes ago) on UMass RB Tony Nelson here .
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The blue Hens have injury issues. They lost RB Kevin Michaud for the season in the Albany game last week.
They lost starting Safety Anthony Bratton for the season back on 09/13/08.
The Hens lost freshman LB Chuck Anderson for the season in the West Chester game .
Article from Delaware athletic dept page here .
Delaware game notes from their side here .
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The Hens are a big deal in Delaware and they have a couple of FCS/I-AA fan sites that are amoung the most active in the division.
See GoHens.net .
CAAZone has an active Hens page here .
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The official CAA football site has info on all of Saturday's games in the league .
Dave Coulson of the Sporting News has UMass over the Hens by a TD .
Keepers College football rankings has Delaware over UMass by 6+ points .
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Monday, September 29, 2008
UMass Football Blog News
The UMass Football Blog will not publish Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and it might not appear on Thursday (we have an early flight home on that day).
I'm doing a two night observing run at Kitt Peak National Observatory's advanced observer program. I'm sure the National Optical Observatory has a wireless network, but I'll up all night both dates and I'll need some recovery time.
In the meantime, every think positive thoughts about beating the evil Delaware Hens on Saturday and I'll be seeing you guys soon.
Go UMass!
I'm doing a two night observing run at Kitt Peak National Observatory's advanced observer program. I'm sure the National Optical Observatory has a wireless network, but I'll up all night both dates and I'll need some recovery time.
In the meantime, every think positive thoughts about beating the evil Delaware Hens on Saturday and I'll be seeing you guys soon.
Go UMass!
Monday Morning Stuff
Matty Vautour has an article on the UMass recovery from the Texas Tech game.
He has some interesting news. Vautour mentions UMass true freshman Korrey Davis' move into the second RB slot. I should have mentioned in my report from Texas Tech how well he played in that game. He had 15 carries for 51 yards.
Reshaude Goodwin is back. His speed will help the secondary and give Coach Brown more options in defensive packages.
True freshman LB Tyler Holmes will probably get some playing time.
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Reinforcements on defense are needed. UMass is in territory we've not seen under Coach Brown.
UMass is:
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The UMass and Delaware bands will perform together at Saturday's game. Now that will be a show!
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He has some interesting news. Vautour mentions UMass true freshman Korrey Davis' move into the second RB slot. I should have mentioned in my report from Texas Tech how well he played in that game. He had 15 carries for 51 yards.
Reshaude Goodwin is back. His speed will help the secondary and give Coach Brown more options in defensive packages.
True freshman LB Tyler Holmes will probably get some playing time.
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Reinforcements on defense are needed. UMass is in territory we've not seen under Coach Brown.
UMass is:
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The UMass and Delaware bands will perform together at Saturday's game. Now that will be a show!
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Matt Lawrence signs with Seahawks
Thanks to the kind soul who sent me the e-mail heads up on this story.
Former UMass RB Matt Lawrence has been signed to the Seattle Seahawks practice squad.
Sunday Morning news
Good morning from Tucson, AZ. As you see, I do have an internet connection and I don't have to call tech support once a day to keep it going.
Not a lot of UMass specific news on the wires this morning, but the CAA website has re-caps for all the CAA teams.
The big news is that Villanova upset Richmond.
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From the Wizard of Odds college football blog's coverage of Louisville-UConn football game (scroll down to the 09/27/08 entry). UConn won anyway to go 5-0.
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Not a lot of UMass specific news on the wires this morning, but the CAA website has re-caps for all the CAA teams.
The big news is that Villanova upset Richmond.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Saturday news
Mrs. Blog and I are moving to the second stage of our Southwest vacation in Tucson, AZ today. That will be a drive of 500+ miles. Again, we are supposed to have high speed internet at our new place, but we shall see. If the blog falls silent, I'll be back as soon as I can find an internet connection.
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More on the Boston College-URI game from the Boston Herald. It mentions BC's 2007 game over UMass was one of the Eagles hardest wins.
Bruce Dowd has a long article on week four in the CAA and previews week five.
Chuck Burton has an article on how many FCS/I-AA teams are playing for the playoffs.
All of us UMass fans were impressed with QB Chris Whitney of Villanova during last year's four overtime thriller against the Wildcats. Looks like he will be taking over the starting QB job at Villanova earlier than expected.
Matty Vautour's picks for week five.
UPDATE: Buried in the UMass website was this notice:"Don't miss this: Despite there being no football radio show tonight, there will be a UMass Football Weekly on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. on CBS3 and here on UMassAthletics.com. The show will feature an all-access behind the scenes look at the team's trip to Lubbock as well as a feature on defensive lineman Brandon Collier."
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Richmond Vs Villanova can be seen on CN8 and BC-Rhode Island is on ESPN360.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Friday FCS Follies
First thing would be to check Bob McGovern's excellent "Between Mullins and McGuirk" blog for his comment on being a journalist and a UMass fan. His "No Doubt" post is a good read.
He touches on effort needed to get the students to go to athletic events. This is the core conundrum for UMass fans. People e-mail me and say they'll get involved in UMass football as soon as we join the Big East or beat UConn or some other thing. Getting involved now indicates to the school someone values UMass athletics. Joining the Court Club, Pond Club or Friends of Football is not just about the 33 cents per day, it shows that those sports have a constituency and that means a lot in the halls of academic administration.
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While we have an off week there are a number of interesting games in the CAA this week. The CAA gameday link is here .
Rhode Island gets Boston College this weekend.
Albany, which has played a strong game against three CAA opponents, plays at Delaware this weekend.
Delaware senator, and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden said he thinks the Blue Hens would, in his words, "Kick Ohio State's ass". The national press spends a lot of time not covering Joe...
Dave Coulson has his weekly CAA column "Around the CAA" here .
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The CSN has this week's FCS predictions here .
UMass football is #11 in Keeper's college football power ratings . Then again, he has JMU at #12, which is ridiculous.
He also has BC by 41 over Rhode Island.
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He touches on effort needed to get the students to go to athletic events. This is the core conundrum for UMass fans. People e-mail me and say they'll get involved in UMass football as soon as we join the Big East or beat UConn or some other thing. Getting involved now indicates to the school someone values UMass athletics. Joining the Court Club, Pond Club or Friends of Football is not just about the 33 cents per day, it shows that those sports have a constituency and that means a lot in the halls of academic administration.
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While we have an off week there are a number of interesting games in the CAA this week. The CAA gameday link is here .
Rhode Island gets Boston College this weekend.
Albany, which has played a strong game against three CAA opponents, plays at Delaware this weekend.
Delaware senator, and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden said he thinks the Blue Hens would, in his words, "Kick Ohio State's ass". The national press spends a lot of time not covering Joe...
Dave Coulson has his weekly CAA column "Around the CAA" here .
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The CSN has this week's FCS predictions here .
UMass football is #11 in Keeper's college football power ratings . Then again, he has JMU at #12, which is ridiculous.
He also has BC by 41 over Rhode Island.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Multi Media Thursday
Click on the image and Blogger displays a larger view.
A forty+ image Picasa Web Album of the UMass Texas Tech game is here . All the images were taken by me or Mrs. Blog. As I said in another post, Texas Tech has a limit on how long a lens you can bring into the stadium. I was using a 35-125 Canon zoom.
A Texas Tech fan known only as "Mike" send me a video production on the Red Raider-UMass game. It's excellent.
The Texas-Tech-UMass video.
Both links have been added to the "2008 UMass images" section in sidebar.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Recruiting 2009--Niko Sierra & Alex Scyocurka
UMass is recruiting two players from the Longmeadow Lancers, Niko Sierra a 6-3 210 RB and Alex Scyocurka a 6-0 210 FS/RB. Story here .
Sierra had 19 TD's and 1,132 yards in 2007. His ESPN page is here . He's getting looks from UMass, BC and UNH in football. Also plays lacross and has interest from UMass and Bellarmine University.
Scyocurka racked up 28 TD's and 1,729 yards in 2007. His Rivals page is here . His Scout.com page is here . Scyocurka is getting interest from UMass and UNH from FCS and BC, Syracuse, Stanford, UConn, Penn State and UConn at the FBS level.
It would be nice to have more Western Mass players on the team. Hope they consider UMass.
Sierra had 19 TD's and 1,132 yards in 2007. His ESPN page is here . He's getting looks from UMass, BC and UNH in football. Also plays lacross and has interest from UMass and Bellarmine University.
Scyocurka racked up 28 TD's and 1,729 yards in 2007. His Rivals page is here . His Scout.com page is here . Scyocurka is getting interest from UMass and UNH from FCS and BC, Syracuse, Stanford, UConn, Penn State and UConn at the FBS level.
It would be nice to have more Western Mass players on the team. Hope they consider UMass.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Tuesday Morning in the Byeweek
UMass drops to #18 in the latest FCS Poll. I wonder how many FCS teams would do any better with back-to-back games @JMU and @Texas Tech.
The FCS Coach's poll has us at #10.
Coach Brown talks about, in the weekly CAA conference call, among other things, that reversal of the on-the-field call of Texas Tech fumbling the kickoff in the first half. As I said in my blog post, I thought he had fumbled. After watching the tape, Brown seems to think so too. That would have been huge for us.
Matty Vautour has some CAA notes here .
Delaware may be starting Kervin Michaud at RB. Story here . The Blue Hens official football site has not been updated since Aug 28th. Makes me appreciate Jason Yellin even more. He does a fine job with the UMass website.
The New Journal says that Delaware could not catch a break against Furman. They should have been playing in Lubbock.
Scotty McGee of JMU had another great day against Appalachian State.
David Coulson recaps the week-that-was in the FCS-I-AA universe.
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James Ihedigbo and Brad Listorti are still on the NY Jets practice squad.
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I bought a Hadrosaur rib at a rock shop yesterday. Never grew out of Dinosaurs.
The Post office still has not found all the hiking equipment Mrs. Blog and I mailed to ourselves at General Delivery Santa Fe...
UPDATE: This is your Hadrosaur news for today.
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The FCS Coach's poll has us at #10.
Coach Brown talks about, in the weekly CAA conference call, among other things, that reversal of the on-the-field call of Texas Tech fumbling the kickoff in the first half. As I said in my blog post, I thought he had fumbled. After watching the tape, Brown seems to think so too. That would have been huge for us.
Matty Vautour has some CAA notes here .
Delaware may be starting Kervin Michaud at RB. Story here . The Blue Hens official football site has not been updated since Aug 28th. Makes me appreciate Jason Yellin even more. He does a fine job with the UMass website.
The New Journal says that Delaware could not catch a break against Furman. They should have been playing in Lubbock.
Scotty McGee of JMU had another great day against Appalachian State.
David Coulson recaps the week-that-was in the FCS-I-AA universe.
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James Ihedigbo and Brad Listorti are still on the NY Jets practice squad.
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I bought a Hadrosaur rib at a rock shop yesterday. Never grew out of Dinosaurs.
The Post office still has not found all the hiking equipment Mrs. Blog and I mailed to ourselves at General Delivery Santa Fe...
UPDATE: This is your Hadrosaur news for today.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Monday morning 09/22/08
Mrs. Blog and I will be staying a week in historic Santa Fe, now home to the artsy-craftsy and, like most towns in the Southwest, explosive growth. In the old days we camped in a KOA not far from the center of town. Now Rt 84 going north out of Santa Fe has six lanes.
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The Boston Herald reports that UMass is ready for some time off.
The UMass Daily Collegian has a story here .
Matty Vautour has a Texas Tech game article here. He has some comment here .
UMass took some injuries in the Texas Tech game.
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So far we've played four teams, three of them on the road. In case your missed it, JMU beat Appalachian State . They might be the #1 team in FCS/I-AA. Texas Tech is now a top ten team in most NCAA polls.
Albany played another strong game against a CAA team as they were leading UNH in the third quarter.
Holy Cross dropped a one point loss to Havard after leading most of the game.
We've played a pretty tough schedule so far. Next up is the Blue Hens. They had trouble on Saturday.
Delaware lost to Furman . K.C. Keeler was not happy.
Update: David Coulson has an article on the JMU-Appalachian game.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sunday Morning stuff
The Boston Globe has an article here. The Herald has an game article here .
The Sports Network here .
The Dallas News here .
This article about the Red Raiders shutting Down the UMass offense hits close to the mark.
RedRaiders.com has a article here .
This story from the Star-Telegram has a nice shot of Anthony Rouzier getting held.
The UMass athletic site has the story, quotes and notes.
News, notes and quotes from the Red Raiders side.
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I left my camera USB cable in New Hampshire. Mrs. Blog and I are headed for Santa Fe for about a week. I'll stop at a camera store and have them copy my images to a CD-ROM or my thumb drive so that I can do a web album.
Something I've never encountered before------Texas Tech has rule on how long a lens you can bring into the stadium. I had my 28-135 on my camera, but I almost brought my 70-300, which would not have passed. It would have been a bummer to come all that way and not have any images.
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There's Prairie Dogs in the lawn of my motel. A couple of women and some kids with a bunch of equipment were trying to capture the Dogs to relocate them. I shoulda brought my .243. I could have relocated them for free.
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High praise for the Lubbock road system. For $10 I parked on some lady's lawn across from the stadium. I took a left and a right and I was on University Road. That took me to a loop highway that circles Lubbock and I was on my way back to Plainview. All this took far less time than a trip from Amherst to Northampton on Rt 9. Remember there were 53,000+ fans and their cars getting out of the game....
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I need to get some chicken-fried steak while I'm out here in the West. Can't get any back home.
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Again, we played really, really hard. UMass made some mistakes that hurt us, but it was an effort to be proud of. I liked the hitting the defense brought. If we build on this, we could have a good year.
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The Sports Network here .
The Dallas News here .
This article about the Red Raiders shutting Down the UMass offense hits close to the mark.
RedRaiders.com has a article here .
This story from the Star-Telegram has a nice shot of Anthony Rouzier getting held.
The UMass athletic site has the story, quotes and notes.
News, notes and quotes from the Red Raiders side.
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I left my camera USB cable in New Hampshire. Mrs. Blog and I are headed for Santa Fe for about a week. I'll stop at a camera store and have them copy my images to a CD-ROM or my thumb drive so that I can do a web album.
Something I've never encountered before------Texas Tech has rule on how long a lens you can bring into the stadium. I had my 28-135 on my camera, but I almost brought my 70-300, which would not have passed. It would have been a bummer to come all that way and not have any images.
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There's Prairie Dogs in the lawn of my motel. A couple of women and some kids with a bunch of equipment were trying to capture the Dogs to relocate them. I shoulda brought my .243. I could have relocated them for free.
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High praise for the Lubbock road system. For $10 I parked on some lady's lawn across from the stadium. I took a left and a right and I was on University Road. That took me to a loop highway that circles Lubbock and I was on my way back to Plainview. All this took far less time than a trip from Amherst to Northampton on Rt 9. Remember there were 53,000+ fans and their cars getting out of the game....
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I need to get some chicken-fried steak while I'm out here in the West. Can't get any back home.
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Again, we played really, really hard. UMass made some mistakes that hurt us, but it was an effort to be proud of. I liked the hitting the defense brought. If we build on this, we could have a good year.
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