David Coulson of The Sports Network has a new article about Jayson Foster of Georgia Southern.
Foster won the 2007 Walter Payton Award. GSU article about him winning the award here .
BTW, the NFL has a Walter Payton Award also .
Entries from March 2008
March 31, 2008
Around FCS
March 29, 2008
Albany starts Spring Practice
We open August 30th (hopefully under the new lights), against Albany.
They have their Spring Prospectus and practice schedule up.
Wish UMass would do a Spring Preview.
UPDATE: Montana, for example, has a 28 page spring prospectus (pdf).
UPDATE II: Someone in the comments mentioned this year’s BCS/I-A opponent Texas Tech. This link has their spring 2008 depth [...]
March 29, 2008
Article about Neal Brown
Another article about former UMass player and assistant coach Neal Brown. At only 27, Brown is among the youngest Offensive Coordinators in BCS/I-A football.
I’ve blogged before about Brown. Blogger will display the posts below this one.
March 28, 2008
Friday Odds & Ends
The second game of the 2008 season will be Holy Cross. They finally published their recruiting list for this year. One interesting recruit is Matt Bellomo, who was the Massachusetts Player-of-the-Year. Another article about him here .
In other news, UMass football is again taking part in the bone marrow registration drive started by Andy Talley.
Nothing [...]
March 27, 2008
Signs of Spring!
Well, my backyard is still snow covered here in the Great Granite State. The Madness of March is on basketball. However, for football fans, there are signs of Spring.
The CAA has started its second season of spring practice player Blogs. The player blogs (Delaware, Maine, Richmond, Rhode Island and Northeastern) so far are here [...]
March 26, 2008
FCS/I-AA football and Hoops
Sporting News’ David Coulson has an article about FCS/I-AA teams in the NCAA tourney.
In the other bracket of the NIT, UMass’ A10 league-mate Dayton plays football in the Pioneer league. The Pioneer League teams have prospered in hoops .
The Flyers are no slouches in football either. They were 11-1 in 2007 and won the [...]
March 26, 2008
Great Game Hoops!
I think this is the first ever blog post on a UMass team other than football, but I can’t ignore a great game like I just witnessed.
I had basketball season tickets for years when I lived in the valley and still do about five weekend games a year.
But the Syracuse game felt like the days [...]
March 25, 2008
Football 2008—- The Spread Offense
Let’s get back to football. The Spread Offense is going viral in college football. Appalachian State beat Michigan with it. Oregon killed Michigan with it.
Oklahoma is adopting it. Former FCS/I-AA coach Paul Wulff is bringing it to Washington State.
Our BCS opponent Texas Tech wrote the book on the spread offense.
The Spread Offense has its own [...]
March 24, 2008
McGuirk and the UMass Sunwheel
In the Easter blog post I talked about the astronomical connections with the date of Easter. The comments to the post started me thinking about the fact that the UMass Football stadium is perhaps the only stadium with a working stone astronomical calender on the grounds.
The calender is the famous UMass Sun wheel . Designed [...]
March 23, 2008
Happy Easter!
The UMass Football Blog wishes the UMass Football on-line community a Happy Easter.
As you know from my “About Me” section in the blog, I’m also an amateur astronomer. Easter is an astronomical holiday since it tracks the Passover date based on a lunar calender.
Easter is always the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after [...]
