Baylark, Thompson and London sign Free Agent Contracts

Well, no UMass player was drafted. A complete list of FCS/I-AA players drafted is here . Four A10 players were drafted.
There is an upside and a downside to not being drafted. On the down side teams tend to give a draft pick more time to develop since cutting the player reflects badly on their draft [...]

I’ve moved historical material to a web album

I’ve moved the historical material that has been published this year to a Picasa Web album.
Future scans will be displayed here and also added to the album to allow easy access.
I’ve added a permanent link in the “UMass football Links” section to the album.

I’ve moved historical material to a web album

I’ve moved the historical material that has been published this year to a Picasa Web album.
Future scans will be displayed here and also added to the album to allow easy access.
I’ve added a permanent link in the “UMass football Links” section to the album.

Official CAA Football Schedule out

The CAA has it’s official 2007 schedule out.
We’ll be talking a lot about the schedule and it’s impact on the CAA and UMass’ chances of making the playoffs in future post.
Today, lets consider that UMass has one of the latest off dates (Oct 6th) in the CAA. Having an off week is a good time [...]

Friday Odds & Ends

UMass has the latest edition of Jason Hatchell’s Spring Practice Blog here (this version has links to the players he’s talking about).
The rest of the CAA player blogs are here .
The League also has a review of Spring Practices around the CCA here.
Matty Vautour weighs in with a very nice article on the UMass players [...]

Former UMass assistant appointed Head Coach at Idaho State

Matt Dougherty of College Sports News has a long, well-reasearched article on FCS/I-AA coaching changes for 2007.
Most of the coaching changes are centered in the West or the HBC’s. However, there is one UMass connection. Idaho State has hired John Zamberlin, former UMass assistant coach under Jimmy Reid. Zamberlin was linebacker coach for UMass 1987-90.
Patriots [...]

Matt Vautour writes about UMass running backs

Matty Vautour has an article about the 2007 UMass running backs here.
He states that two UMass starters Matt Austin and Brad Listorti are sitting out spring practice with injuries.

Spring Game 12:00 Noon May 5th

The UMass football website has the Spring Game at 12:00 noon on May 5th, 2007.
I’ve updated the count-down clock to reflect the Noon starting time.
UMass Friends of Football will be holding a meeting at 9:00 am on the same day. As an aside, I just renewed my membership for the coming year. Received “Thank [...]

Boston Herald covers UMass pro prospects

Rich Thompson of the Boston Herald has a nice article on some of UMass’ prospects here .
He mentions Brandon London, Steve Baylark, James Ihedigbo and Christian Koegel.

Steve Baylark NFL Draft Articles

Football1 has left us some Steve Baylark NFL draft links in the comments section of the previous blog. If there is a way to have a active link in comments, I have yet to figure it out.
So, courtesy of that gentleman, here are four Baylark mentions:

Orlando Sentinel
Rocky Mountain News
Dallas News
Dallas Morning News