Christian Koegel is 4th in the Nation

Junior UMass Punter Christian Koegel (16 punts-705 yds-44.06 punt/yds average) is having a great season. He is 4th ranked punter in the nation. Check out the NCAA’s punting stats page here. The main NCAA stat page is here. Warning! It’s a real work killer…
Koegel is also leading the A10. His closest rival is Joe Nolan [...]

UMass Game Day Central

UMass’ web site just gets better and better. Check out the Game Day Central page.
The page has a high signal-to-noise ratio and cool graphics!
I’ve added a link in my UMass Football Links section. The UMass Footbal Fan Blog now has 11 UMass and 8 I-AA football links.

A look at the A10

Well, the 2005 A10 season is about 1/3 over. If we look at the current standings, can we glean any insights? The main goal of conference play is to make the playoffs. After All I-AA likes to be known as the “Championship” Division rather than the “Bowl” Division of I-A.
Once a team is selected one [...]

UMass needs an off week

UMass and Richmond have an off week in the eleven week grind that makes up the A10 football schedule.
The Springfield Union has an article on the off week here.
The UMass offense line could use the rest. As all UMass fans know, the UMass offense has struggled at time this year to score points and run [...]

New I-AA link

Just added a new website in the “Links” section of this blog.
Check out diaafootball.com .

A10 Attendance 09/24/05

Home team is listed first.

38,446 Vanderbilt-Richmond
23,257 Villanova-Penn (actually at a neutral site)
22,025 Delaware-Holy Cross
15,314 UMass-Rhode Island
11,741 William & Mary-Liberty
9,844 Furman-Hofstra
7,145 UNH-Dartmouth
3,801 Northeastern-Towson

Problems with Blogger

The image posting service for Blogger seems to be broke.
For the last week or so it has been harder and harder to post images in an individual blog.
For the last 24 hours, it has not worked at all.
I was able to do a work-around to post images of the Rhode Island game using the “Hello” [...]

UMass Defense leads the I-AA Universe

The UMass defense leads I-AA in Total Defense, Scoring Defense and Pass Efficiency.
The NCAA Stat page for Total Defense is here. The pages for Scoring Defense and Pass Efficiency Defense are here and here .

Jason Hatchell named A10 Defensive Player-of-the-Week

UMass Soph. LB 6-0 224 Jason Hatchell was named A10 Player-of-the-week Sunday.
The A10 press release is here (click on the awards tab)
The UMass write-up is here. Jason is the brother of starting NT John Hatchell.
Jason suffered a torn ACL in 2004 and had surgery this spring. He has led UMass in tackles the last three [...]

UMass stops the Rams

UMass’ top-of-the-nation defense Held the Rams to 249 total yards (they got 76 of those on the first series).
The UMass defense was in control of Rhody’s vaunted spread option offense all night.
Great night and great atmosphere as 15,000 chilly fans took in the game.
Read the UMass write-up here.
The providence Journal is here. Registration required—- use [...]