Thursday news ----- July 15, 2010

Ray Pendagast, who will walk-on for UMass this August, did well in the New Haven National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Classic All-Star football game .

I've blogged about Pendagast before.

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Craig Haley of The Sports Network has another of his columns "In the FCS huddle: Matchups to Watch". One of them is UMass' opening game with William & Mary.

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Delaware's Pat Devlin is the only FCS/I-AA representative on the Unitas Watch List.

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Josh Buchanan has released his JBS Preseason Player-of-the-Year Award Watch List. The only UMass player to make the group is LB Tyler Holmes.

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Michigan has released the official 2010 Michigan Stadium Capacity: 109,901.

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Ex-Oregon QB Jerimial Masoli is still available.

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Today is fifty-one days until the start of the UMass season. Wearing #51 for UMass is Quinton Sales, a 6-3 280 pd OL from Fort Washington, MD. Sales is a RS SO. He played in two games in 2009 after missing the entire 2008 season with a broken foot.