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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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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!
Friday, November 06, 2009
Recruiting 2010--Anthony Carter
UMass is recruiting Anthony Carter a 5-9 172 pd Safety from Marlborough, MA.
His Rivals page here.
Has his own football page and bio information here.
Carter holds offers from Holy Cross and San Diego. Has recruiting interest from I-A schools Arkansas. Perdue. Stanford and Vanderbilt. FCS schools interested are Brown, Holy Cross, Rhode Island and Southern Illinois.
Image from Carter's web page.
Friday before Northeastern---11/6/09
Northeastern's David Akiniyi has been named Academic All-District by ESPN.
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CSN's Terrance Thomas looks at this week's league news in his "CAA Today" column.
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Bruce Dowd returns after a hiatus from his "Dowd's Den" column.
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The Sports Network's Brett Kahn previews this week's Top-25 games in the FCS.
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A former NFL GM says Appalachian State's Armanti Edwards can play in the NFL. Again, I found the link over at the always interesting Draft Daddy.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Thursday before the Northeastern Game-11/05/09
The UMass Daily Collegian has a couple of stories here and here. The Collegian looks at the road woes of the UMass Football team and a preview of the Northeastern game.
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The CAA has some notes and stats on the league's standing in this week's Top-25 rankings as well as the lambert Cup.
The Big Game in the CAA is this week's clash between #1 Richmond and #4 Villanova.
If you happened to watch last week's game between James Madison and Delaware, you were impressed by JMU's Arthur Moats. We'll get to see him in person in just more than a week.
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Next year's BCS/I-A opponent Michigan, is seriously demoralized.
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Rivals.com has a feature about how Texas Tech HC Mike Leach uses film study to teach his quarterbacks.
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The CAA has some notes and stats on the league's standing in this week's Top-25 rankings as well as the lambert Cup.
The Big Game in the CAA is this week's clash between #1 Richmond and #4 Villanova.
If you happened to watch last week's game between James Madison and Delaware, you were impressed by JMU's Arthur Moats. We'll get to see him in person in just more than a week.
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Next year's BCS/I-A opponent Michigan, is seriously demoralized.
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Rivals.com has a feature about how Texas Tech HC Mike Leach uses film study to teach his quarterbacks.
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