Hofstra finally has its game notes for UMass here.
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CAA Game Day page here.
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Ron Chimelis says UMass needs this game.
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Matty V. says the last game is important to the UMass Seniors.
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Chuck Burton has his weekly "CSN Way" column here.
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Terrance Thomas has his weekly "CAA Today" essay here.
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I totally missed Amherst College having an undefeated season.
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BLOG NOTE:
Because of a commitment, I will not be able to up-date the blog tonight or tomorrow morning. So--- until then-----GO UMASS!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Friday Before the Hofstra Game--11/20/09
The UMass Daily Collegian has a UMass-Hofstra game preview here.
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Current CAA standings here. If UMass beats Hofstra and UNH beats Maine, UMass would finish alone in second place in the CAA North.
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The Sprots Network's Brett Kanh previews the this week's Top-25 FCS games.
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Another FCS coach resigned last night as Tennessee State's James Weber stepped down last night after upsetting #13 Eastern Illinois.
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UMass' 2009 FBS/I-A opponent Kansas State needs a win at #25 Nebraska to be bowl eligible.
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The end of this article discusses the CAA after Old Dominion joins the league in 2011 and Georgia State enters in 2012.
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Current CAA standings here. If UMass beats Hofstra and UNH beats Maine, UMass would finish alone in second place in the CAA North.
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The Sprots Network's Brett Kanh previews the this week's Top-25 FCS games.
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Another FCS coach resigned last night as Tennessee State's James Weber stepped down last night after upsetting #13 Eastern Illinois.
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UMass' 2009 FBS/I-A opponent Kansas State needs a win at #25 Nebraska to be bowl eligible.
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The end of this article discusses the CAA after Old Dominion joins the league in 2011 and Georgia State enters in 2012.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Web Album for the UMass-JMU game
Click on the image and blogger displays a much larger view.
I've posted a Picassa Web Album of the UMass-James Madison game here. Not a great day for photography or the Minutemen.
Can you count the number of holds in the image #14?
Thursday Before the Hofstra Game--11/19/09
The University of Richmond student newspaper takes a look back at UR Stadium (mentions UMass).
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The CAA has its weekly conference notes and news here.
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I read a source that the FCS playoff selection show will be on ESPN News at 3:00 PM Sunday, but it does not appear on the ESPN online schedule.
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You remember that many CAA teams, including UMass have participated in the the bone marrow registration drive began by Villanova HC Andy Talley? Villanova WR Matt Szczur is a match for a one year old girl with leukema.
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The CAA has its weekly conference notes and news here.
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I read a source that the FCS playoff selection show will be on ESPN News at 3:00 PM Sunday, but it does not appear on the ESPN online schedule.
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You remember that many CAA teams, including UMass have participated in the the bone marrow registration drive began by Villanova HC Andy Talley? Villanova WR Matt Szczur is a match for a one year old girl with leukema.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wednesday before the Hofstra Game--11/18/09
UMass has its game notes for Hofstra up here (html) and here (pdf).
No game notes from Hofstra as yet.
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UMass still makes the the GridIron Power Index's Top-25 list at #25 and seventh in the CAA.
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The CAA has its weekly press release with league notes and news as well as this week's game capsules here.
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Former NFL coach Jerry Glanville has resigned as HC of the Portland State Vikings after going 9-24 over three years.
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The Sports Network's David Coulson discusses the lastest FCS news here.
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The Richmond Times-Dispatch states Richmond's Mike London could probably triple his financial package if he became a head coach at a FBS school.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tuesday before the Hofstra Game-- 11/17/09
The four UMass Football players who were arrested in October have had their cases continued. Their charges will be dropped on March 15, 2010 if there are no further problems.
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Matty V. looks at the status of the CAA one week before the playoffs.
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How the FCS Championship series works by CSN.
Chuck Burton of CSN looks at who's in.
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Next year's FBS/I-A opponent Michigan failed to file players practice logs as required by the NCAA-----for the whole year.
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The Sports Network looks at the latest FCS poll and finds the Salukis are still #1.
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Keepers College football ratings has UMass by less than a field goal over Hofstra.
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Remember when you were in High School and you kinda thought the teachers would have to be crazy, because after all, they were serving a life sentence in the educational system? A Massachusetts principal banned students from using the word "Meep!" (from the Muppets character "Beaker").
UPDATE: a lawyer, in solidarity with the students, sent the principal a one-word e-mail saying "Meep". The school system called the police on her.
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I'll try to be back later today with a Web Album from the JMU game.
And you meeping meepers better behave yourselves in the meeping comments section.
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Matty V. looks at the status of the CAA one week before the playoffs.
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How the FCS Championship series works by CSN.
Chuck Burton of CSN looks at who's in.
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Next year's FBS/I-A opponent Michigan failed to file players practice logs as required by the NCAA-----for the whole year.
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The Sports Network looks at the latest FCS poll and finds the Salukis are still #1.
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Keepers College football ratings has UMass by less than a field goal over Hofstra.
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Remember when you were in High School and you kinda thought the teachers would have to be crazy, because after all, they were serving a life sentence in the educational system? A Massachusetts principal banned students from using the word "Meep!" (from the Muppets character "Beaker").
UPDATE: a lawyer, in solidarity with the students, sent the principal a one-word e-mail saying "Meep". The school system called the police on her.
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I'll try to be back later today with a Web Album from the JMU game.
And you meeping meepers better behave yourselves in the meeping comments section.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday before the Hofstra Game--11/16/09
The JMU student newspaper tell about the first win at UMass since 1987.
Matty V. has his three stars from the James Madison game: Tyler Holmes, Perry McIntyre and Josh Maurer.
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Walpole's Ryan Izzo broke the state scoring record Saturday. He'll be playing lacrosse for UMass next year. Wonder if he'd be interested in joining Travis Tripucka in playing two sports?
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Next year's BCS/I-A opponent Michigan is having a real long season.
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Armanti Edwards and the ASU Mountaineers are back.
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Matty V. has his three stars from the James Madison game: Tyler Holmes, Perry McIntyre and Josh Maurer.
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Walpole's Ryan Izzo broke the state scoring record Saturday. He'll be playing lacrosse for UMass next year. Wonder if he'd be interested in joining Travis Tripucka in playing two sports?
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Next year's BCS/I-A opponent Michigan is having a real long season.
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Armanti Edwards and the ASU Mountaineers are back.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Sunday after James Madison--11/15/09
The Boston Globe said UMass dropped the ball.
The Boston Herald said UMass was charitable.
The Springfield Republican said too many turnovers.
Matty V. said UMass could not overcome turnovers.
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From the JMU side:
The Richmond Times-Dispatch said JMU made use of turnovers.
The Augusta Free Press said JMU won their third straight.
The Baltimore Sun said James Madison's defense and TB Noble won the game.
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The CAA has recaps of all the CAA games here. It also includes a discussion of CAA Championship scenarios and who get the league auto bid.
UNH lost to William & Mary, which puts the Wildcats out of the league championship and very possibly on a road playoff game.
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All the FCS scores and a list of teams who cliched league championships (including Holy Cross) here.
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Kansas State fell to Missouri on Senior Day and must beat Nebraska next week to be bowl eligible.
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The Boston Herald said UMass was charitable.
The Springfield Republican said too many turnovers.
Matty V. said UMass could not overcome turnovers.
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From the JMU side:
The Richmond Times-Dispatch said JMU made use of turnovers.
The Augusta Free Press said JMU won their third straight.
The Baltimore Sun said James Madison's defense and TB Noble won the game.
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The CAA has recaps of all the CAA games here. It also includes a discussion of CAA Championship scenarios and who get the league auto bid.
UNH lost to William & Mary, which puts the Wildcats out of the league championship and very possibly on a road playoff game.
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All the FCS scores and a list of teams who cliched league championships (including Holy Cross) here.
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Kansas State fell to Missouri on Senior Day and must beat Nebraska next week to be bowl eligible.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
A Rainy Day at McGuirk
It started raining torrents as I slogged back to my truck. A soggy end of a disappointing day. I had a feeling this was going to be a close game. Both teams had very good defenses. Both teams have had inconsistent offenses.
Once again, the UMass defense played well enough to win. They only gave up 10 points. JMU had a fair amount of yards, but they had to punt seven times. The Dukes had the ball on the UMass six yard line and the defense held them to a field goal. No JMU points in the second half.
The UMass offense again struggled. However, the JMU defense is very good. I watched the Dukes defense on a TV game destroy a Delaware offense that ran all over us. This game was going to be tough going offensively no matter what the situation. We needed to play error free football, and then turned over the ball on the first three offensive series. That was the game right there.
Mrs Blog didn't like the punt on the four and four, and neither did the crowd, but I can see the coaches point. If we went for it and failed---and four and four is a long shot ---the game was over. We had three time outs and the Dukes punter was only averaging 26 yards a punt. The UMass defense was holding , but then JMU hit their only long pass of the game . I was reminded of another loss in the rain at Rhode Island, when the Rams completed what felt like their only pass of the game, to win.
We need to play for pride at the Pride next week and end with a winning record.
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UMass write-up with notes, quotes and more here.
An abbreviated story from JMU here.
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Once again, the UMass defense played well enough to win. They only gave up 10 points. JMU had a fair amount of yards, but they had to punt seven times. The Dukes had the ball on the UMass six yard line and the defense held them to a field goal. No JMU points in the second half.
The UMass offense again struggled. However, the JMU defense is very good. I watched the Dukes defense on a TV game destroy a Delaware offense that ran all over us. This game was going to be tough going offensively no matter what the situation. We needed to play error free football, and then turned over the ball on the first three offensive series. That was the game right there.
Mrs Blog didn't like the punt on the four and four, and neither did the crowd, but I can see the coaches point. If we went for it and failed---and four and four is a long shot ---the game was over. We had three time outs and the Dukes punter was only averaging 26 yards a punt. The UMass defense was holding , but then JMU hit their only long pass of the game . I was reminded of another loss in the rain at Rhode Island, when the Rams completed what felt like their only pass of the game, to win.
We need to play for pride at the Pride next week and end with a winning record.
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UMass write-up with notes, quotes and more here.
An abbreviated story from JMU here.
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Game Day James Madison--11/14/09
Well, it looks like a rainy send off for the seniors. The UMass defense played very well in torrents down in Richmond. If the offense can hold on to the ball, it could be trouble for the Dukes.
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Ron Chimelis says it's the final home game for the UMass Seniors.
Matty V. previews the UMass-JMU game and says there is plenty at stake for the Minutemen.
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Bruce Dowd is back with a issue of his FCS column "Dowd's Den".
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The CAA has their "Game Day" with information about all of today's CAA games including JMU@ UMass. The game will be on Comcast Sports New England. That's channel 435 on Dish Network.
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I'll be getting my rain gear together for the game shortly. Come on out to the game. You won't melt!
Go UMass!
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Ron Chimelis says it's the final home game for the UMass Seniors.
Matty V. previews the UMass-JMU game and says there is plenty at stake for the Minutemen.
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Bruce Dowd is back with a issue of his FCS column "Dowd's Den".
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The CAA has their "Game Day" with information about all of today's CAA games including JMU@ UMass. The game will be on Comcast Sports New England. That's channel 435 on Dish Network.
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I'll be getting my rain gear together for the game shortly. Come on out to the game. You won't melt!
Go UMass!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Friday before the James Madison Game--11/13/09
The UMass Daily Collegian has a story about the UMass Seniors.
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PressConnects.com has a story about UMass FR TB Jamar Smith.
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James Madison gets some reinforcements for the game against UMass.
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Terrance Thomas, Sr. has his weekly "CAA Today" column here.
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The CAA has notes and news about the five CAA squads in the FCS Top-25.
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The Sports Network's Brett Kahn previews the the Top-25 games in FCS this week.
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David Coulson reviews the status of FCS and wonders if 20 teams in the playoffs are an option this year.
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New Hampshire plays William & Mary for a possible top four seed in the playoffs and a first round home game.
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PressConnects.com has a story about UMass FR TB Jamar Smith.
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James Madison gets some reinforcements for the game against UMass.
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Terrance Thomas, Sr. has his weekly "CAA Today" column here.
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The CAA has notes and news about the five CAA squads in the FCS Top-25.
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The Sports Network's Brett Kahn previews the the Top-25 games in FCS this week.
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David Coulson reviews the status of FCS and wonders if 20 teams in the playoffs are an option this year.
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New Hampshire plays William & Mary for a possible top four seed in the playoffs and a first round home game.
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2009 UMass Football Seniors
Click on the image and Blogger displays a much larger view.Saturday is the last home game for the 2009 Seniors:
- Jared Chivers OL
- Brandon Collier DL
- Victor Cruz WR
- Armando Cuko K
- Cory Davis DB
- Eric Dickson LB
- Vladimir Ducasse OL
- Kurt Filler LB
- Bryan Fisher OL
- Rob Getek OL
- Michael Hanson DL
- Kyle C. Harrington DL
- Jeremy Horne WR
- Josh Jennings LB
- Jeromy Miles DB
- Anthony Monette DL
- Tony Nelson TB
- Joe Sanford WR
- Matt Silver TE
- Scott Woodward QB
- Chris Zardas FB
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Thursday before the James Madison Game--11/12/09
Nice article about Armando Cuko from Masslive.com.
Matty V. has a blog post on three stars from the Northeastern game. Hard to argue with Tony Nelson, Mike Mele and Armando Cuko.
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The Eagle-Tribune has a story about Zack Tulley a 6-1 190 LB for Pinkerton Academy. He's the son of three-time All Yankee Conference UMass LB Matt Tulley.
Matt led the UMass defense in tackles in 1991 with 44 UT 29 AT 80TT. He also led the Minutemen in sacks in 1988 and 1999 with 6 and 9 respectively. Matt is 12th in UMass career tackles (325) and 5th in career sacks (26).
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Attention John McCutcheon---Boise State is selling stock in the Athletic Dept for $100 a share.
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Matty V. has a blog post on three stars from the Northeastern game. Hard to argue with Tony Nelson, Mike Mele and Armando Cuko.
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The Eagle-Tribune has a story about Zack Tulley a 6-1 190 LB for Pinkerton Academy. He's the son of three-time All Yankee Conference UMass LB Matt Tulley.
Matt led the UMass defense in tackles in 1991 with 44 UT 29 AT 80TT. He also led the Minutemen in sacks in 1988 and 1999 with 6 and 9 respectively. Matt is 12th in UMass career tackles (325) and 5th in career sacks (26).
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Attention John McCutcheon---Boise State is selling stock in the Athletic Dept for $100 a share.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Wednesday before James Madison--11/11/09
UMass has its JMU game notes in html here and pdf here.
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The win over Northeastern moved UMass back into the FCS top-25 in the Gridiron Power Index.
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The CAA's weekly press release with notes about the league and each individual team here.
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David Coulson of The Sprots Network has his weekly "Around FCS" column entitled "Ripples of a Victory".
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Kansas State controls their own fate in a bid for a bowl game.
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Fired HC Tommy West said James Madison and William & Mary have better football facilities than Memphis.
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Idaho State coached by former UMass coaches John Zamberlin and Joe Cullen almost upset unbeaten Montana Saturday.
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Jasper Howard, the UConn football player stabbed to death in a campus fight, threw the first punch according to this report.
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The win over Northeastern moved UMass back into the FCS top-25 in the Gridiron Power Index.
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The CAA's weekly press release with notes about the league and each individual team here.
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David Coulson of The Sprots Network has his weekly "Around FCS" column entitled "Ripples of a Victory".
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Kansas State controls their own fate in a bid for a bowl game.
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Fired HC Tommy West said James Madison and William & Mary have better football facilities than Memphis.
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Idaho State coached by former UMass coaches John Zamberlin and Joe Cullen almost upset unbeaten Montana Saturday.
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Jasper Howard, the UConn football player stabbed to death in a campus fight, threw the first punch according to this report.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tuesday before the JMU Game--11/10/09
Ron Chimelis says UMass is fighting to keep a flicker of hope for the playoffs alive.
Transcript of Coach Morris' weekly CAA teleconference remarks.
Audio link to Mickey Matthews teleconference remarks.
Matty V. says the FCS playoff picture is emerging.
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James Madison's UMass game notes here (html) and here (pdf).
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Armando Cuko was named UMass' Athlete-of-the-week.
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James Madison's QB Justin Thorpe was named the CAA Rookie-of-the-Week.
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Current FCS polls here. With Richmond's loss Saturday, the Southern Illinois Salukis jumped to #1.
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Keepers College Football Ratings has UMass over James Madison by less than a touchdown. He also has William & Mary by almost two TD's over New Hampshire.
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Transcript of Coach Morris' weekly CAA teleconference remarks.
Audio link to Mickey Matthews teleconference remarks.
Matty V. says the FCS playoff picture is emerging.
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James Madison's UMass game notes here (html) and here (pdf).
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Armando Cuko was named UMass' Athlete-of-the-week.
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James Madison's QB Justin Thorpe was named the CAA Rookie-of-the-Week.
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Current FCS polls here. With Richmond's loss Saturday, the Southern Illinois Salukis jumped to #1.
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Keepers College Football Ratings has UMass over James Madison by less than a touchdown. He also has William & Mary by almost two TD's over New Hampshire.
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Web Albumn for Northeastern up
Click on the image and Blogger displays a much larger view.
I've posted a 40+ image web album of the Northeastern game on Picassa. The brilliant sunshine made for fast shutter speeds and thus better action shots.
Monday before the JMU game--11/9/09
Matty V. says Tony Nelson is back in stride.
The Boston Herald has Armand Cuko as a "Herald Hero" for tying the UMass all-time career field record.
UMass Daily Collegian has more on Nelson and Cuko here.
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CAA league standings after Saturday's games.
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The James Madison student newspaper says the Dukes have their swagger back.
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Old Dominion, slated to join the CAA in a couple of years, became the winningest startup program ever Saturday.
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Kansas City.com says that Bill Snyder is making things look easy for Kansas State.
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Whoa! Dartmouth has a two game win streak going.
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The Boston Herald has Armand Cuko as a "Herald Hero" for tying the UMass all-time career field record.
UMass Daily Collegian has more on Nelson and Cuko here.
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CAA league standings after Saturday's games.
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The James Madison student newspaper says the Dukes have their swagger back.
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Old Dominion, slated to join the CAA in a couple of years, became the winningest startup program ever Saturday.
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Kansas City.com says that Bill Snyder is making things look easy for Kansas State.
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Whoa! Dartmouth has a two game win streak going.
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Sunday after Northeastern--11/08/09
The new scoreboard is nice. It is crisp and new. The video board is small, but has good definition. We were able to watch replays and it's definitely an enhancement to the McGuirk experience. Click on the image and Blogger displays a much large view.
The Boston Globe says it was a not moving day for the Huskies.
The Boston Herald says it was the Minutemen in a rout.
The Springfield Republican has a game article here.
Matty Vautour said the offense clicked.
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All the CAA scores and recaps here. Villanova stopped Richmond's 16 game win streak. Mrs Blog an I watched the end of the game on Comcast Sports after we returned home.
More on the *&%#! end of the Richmond-Villanova game.
All the FCS scores from 11/7/09 here.
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Our 2009 I-A opponent Kansas State defeated arch-rival Kansas to run their record to 6-4 and 4-2 in the Big 12. One more win and the Cats will surely go to a bowl game.
Albany had their school record 12 game home winning streak snapped on a last second field goal.
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
McGuirk Magic!
UMass write-up here.
Northeastern write-up here.
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Well, after the game, Mrs Blog and I stopped at our exclusive wine store----- Big Y, and bought a bottle of vino. Mrs. Blog offered a toast during supper to the win.
The UMass defense held the Huskies to 145 total yards. The first team offense played mistake free ball. Tony Nelson showed what he means to the offense.
All this with UMass missing even more players. Both Tyler Holmes and Jonathan Hernandez did DNP and did not dress for the game.
Two new UMass players received significant playing time and did well. Syracuse transfer Mike Mele started at MLB and led the team with 10 total tackles. He also hooked up with the Northeastern TE on two long passing plays and stayed with the receiver 40 yards down the field.
Cedric Gonnet was the second string TB and had 13 carries for 45 yards and a 4.5 yards/carry.
Armando Cuko was 3 for 3 and set the UMass single season field goal record.
One victory down and two to go. Let's enjoy the win.
Northeastern write-up here.
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Well, after the game, Mrs Blog and I stopped at our exclusive wine store----- Big Y, and bought a bottle of vino. Mrs. Blog offered a toast during supper to the win.
The UMass defense held the Huskies to 145 total yards. The first team offense played mistake free ball. Tony Nelson showed what he means to the offense.
All this with UMass missing even more players. Both Tyler Holmes and Jonathan Hernandez did DNP and did not dress for the game.
Two new UMass players received significant playing time and did well. Syracuse transfer Mike Mele started at MLB and led the team with 10 total tackles. He also hooked up with the Northeastern TE on two long passing plays and stayed with the receiver 40 yards down the field.
Cedric Gonnet was the second string TB and had 13 carries for 45 yards and a 4.5 yards/carry.
Armando Cuko was 3 for 3 and set the UMass single season field goal record.
One victory down and two to go. Let's enjoy the win.
Game Day Northeastern-11/07/09
Ron Chimelis says UMass Football's playoff hopes are slim.
Matty V. says all the Minutemen's remaining games are must wins.
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The CAA has it's Game Day page here. The Rhode Island-UNH and the Villanova-Richmond games are on Comcast Sports New England, so set your DVR.
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Speaking of Richmond they just received two years of probation for NCAA violations mostly relating to Basketball. More here.
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Kansas State needs two more wins to be bowl eligible.
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The person who tried to post a message to potential UMass recruit Kristjan Sokoli (see Wednesday's post) in the comments should try to contact him through social medial like Face Book.
A couple of reasons: the message is not private for one thing and since I'm a season ticket holder and a member of Friends of Football, that makes me an agent of UMass in the eyes of the NCAA. We don't want to cause any problems for either UMass football or for Sokoli. See Richmond's troubles earlier in this blog post.
Just for the record, although the UMass Sports Information Office has been very nice to me, I get zero perks or encouragement from UMass Football.
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Let's beat the Huskies and get started on three straight wins to close out the 2009 season!
Go UMass!
Matty V. says all the Minutemen's remaining games are must wins.
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The CAA has it's Game Day page here. The Rhode Island-UNH and the Villanova-Richmond games are on Comcast Sports New England, so set your DVR.
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Speaking of Richmond they just received two years of probation for NCAA violations mostly relating to Basketball. More here.
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Kansas State needs two more wins to be bowl eligible.
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The person who tried to post a message to potential UMass recruit Kristjan Sokoli (see Wednesday's post) in the comments should try to contact him through social medial like Face Book.
A couple of reasons: the message is not private for one thing and since I'm a season ticket holder and a member of Friends of Football, that makes me an agent of UMass in the eyes of the NCAA. We don't want to cause any problems for either UMass football or for Sokoli. See Richmond's troubles earlier in this blog post.
Just for the record, although the UMass Sports Information Office has been very nice to me, I get zero perks or encouragement from UMass Football.
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Let's beat the Huskies and get started on three straight wins to close out the 2009 season!
Go UMass!
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