UMass Head Coach Don Brown will be a voting member on a new-for-2007 FCS Coaches Poll. Article here.
Entries from July 2007
July 31, 2007
Lehigh Football Blog looks at the Patriot League
2007 is an unusual year in the fact that UMass plays two members of the Patriot League. I can’t remember when we played two members of another league in the regular season.
Holy Cross and Colgate will be a little under 20% of our games this year.
The Lehigh Football Nation takes a look at the off-season [...]
July 31, 2007
32 days till football and #32
Only 32 days until we open with Holy Cross!
Wearing #32 again for UMass will be Matt Lawrence a 6-1 210 pd TB/FB from Bloomfield, CT. He’s a RS Senior.
Lawrence played in 13 games and started 6 last year. He had 34-182 carries 5.1 yds/carry 2 TD long 55 yards. He also caught the ball out [...]
July 30, 2007
Draft Daddy lists five UMass players as All-CAA
I’m more and more impressed by Daft Daddy.com as a college football site. Amazingly, they do a fair amount of FCS/I-AA coverage.
They’ve released a CAA All-Conference team with five UMass players.
QB Joe Flacco ~ Delaware
RB Maurice Murray ~ Northeastern
RB Omar Cuff ~ Delaware
WR Arman Shields ~ Richmond
WR Shawn Leonard ~ Rhode Island (Sophomore)
TE Brad Listorti [...]
July 30, 2007
More free stuff from Phil Steele
Phil Steele is the only college football magazine to cover FCS/I-AA football with any depth.
He’s releasing the entire content (30+ pages) for free on his website. However, each conference will only be up for two days.
The schedule:
Phil Steele’s FCS Release Dates:
Northeast: August 13-14Ohio Valley: August 14-15Southern: August 15-16Southland: August 16-17SWAC: August 17-20 [...]
July 30, 2007
Whoa! Major TV package for the CAA
The CAA has announced the largest FCS/I-AA TV package in the nation.
The CAA announcement is here (contains a list of the entire package).
From the UMass website: The league released its television package on Wednesday with five UMass games listed: at Colgate (Time Warner-TV), vs. Towson (CN8), at Maine (CN8), vs. Northeastern (CN8), and vs. New [...]
July 30, 2007
Recruiting 2008— DT Steve Dunn
UMass is recruiting Steve Dunn a 6-0 275 pd DT from Churchville, NY.
Scount.com article here .
Receiving FCS/I-AA interest from UMass and Delaware. Has BCS interest from Temple, UConn, Pitt and Syracuse.
Steve, UMass has a better defense and better defensive coaches than any of those schools!
July 30, 2007
#33 Sloan Russett
Wearing #33 for the Minutemen this year will true freshman Sloan Russett a 5-10 200 pd RB from Manchester, NH.
Russett joined UMass in the Spring Session of 2006.
Sloan, welcome to UMass! Hope this is the start of a great career for you.
July 30, 2007
#34 Sam Besong
Wearing #34 for UMass will be RS freshman Sam Besong, a 6-0 200 pd LB from Brocton, MA.
Besong did not appear in any games last year.
Sam, may this year be the start of a great career with the Minutemen!
July 30, 2007
#36 Darrlyn Fenner
Wearing #36 for the Maroon & White this year will be Darrlyn Fenner a 6-0 230 pd DE from Hampton, VA. Fenner will be a RS junior this year.
Fenner played in 13 games in 2006 and had 7 UT 11 At 17 TT and 0.0-2 TFL.
Darrlyn, may you have a great junior season!
