The UMass website has this article about Jeromy Miles being named to the Consensus Draft Services’ preseason All-America team.
While this is good for Jeromy, I am not highly enthusiastic about Consensus Draft Services choices. Their complete list is here .
Appalachian State’s Armanti Edwards is only an honorable mention. Delaware transfer QB Rob Schoenhoft is listed [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 31, 2008
Miles Named to Preseason All-America team
May 30, 2008
Friday Morning Odd & Ends 05/30/08
I like the above image by Christopher Evans of the Springfield Republican. Wish I had taken it. The image originates on the Republican’s UMass Football page.
Matt Hays of the Sporting News thinks that Appalachian State has a good chance to pull another stunning upset at LSU.
Josh Buchanan over at NFL Draft Bible looks at some [...]
May 29, 2008
Santos signs with Alouettes
In my May 9th Blog post I reported that Ricky Santos had been cut by the Chiefs after a three day stay.
In that post I said” As the stories indicate, I’ve always thought Canadian Football was the place for Santos. Two men in motion. Wider field. Throw on nearly every down. I think he’d thrive [...]
May 28, 2008
First 2008 polls are out
UMass is ranked 6th in the first AGS FCS/I-AA poll of the 2008 season. One article about it so far here .
Lindy’s 2008 NCAA Football magazine (not out yet in my area) has UMass as 4th.
FWIW, here is my 2008 preseason ranking:
Appalachian State
Richmond
James Madison
UNI
Eastern Washington
UMass
Wofford
Southern Illinois
NDSU
McNeese State
Eastern Kentucky
Montana
Cal Poly
Youngstown State
Yale
Fordham
Holy Cross
Liberty
Furman
Delaware
New Hampshire
Villanova
Norfolk State
SDSU
Elon
You could [...]
May 27, 2008
Chris Koepplin kicks for the Manchester Wolves
The images below are courtesy of the Koepplin family. Click on any image and Blogger displays a larger view.
Chris Koepplin kicked a 53-yard FG, which was just about the margin of victory in a 66-62 win over Albany.
Story about his signing here . Manchester Wolves website here .
Could someone explain to me why Koepplin did [...]
May 25, 2008
Sunday Odds & Ends 05/25/08
Phil Steele’s site has an “Interesting Tidbits” column about BCS/I-A teams that includes a “Highest scoring teams since 2000″ section. UMass’ I-A opponent this year Texas Tech is #5 at 36.69 points per game.
College football sites come and go, but “DPD’s Dogs” seems interesting. His schedules page seems to have a lot of information.
Richmond RB [...]
May 24, 2008
CAA Preseason
Anyone interested in New England football should bookmark the New Hampshire Football Report. It’s a quality blog that I check often. It’s owned by Roger Brown.
In this blog post, he reports on the CAA Preseason ballot of Mike Zhe, who covers CAA football for the Portsmouth Herald. Zhe has UMass winning the CAA North and [...]
May 24, 2008
Article on Matt Lawrence with the Chicago Bears
The Bloomfield Journal has an article about former UMass RB Matt Lawrence’s journey to the Chicago Bears.
May 23, 2008
Three UMass Players listed in 2009 NFL Draft watch
Draft Daddy’s NFL Draft Blog lists three UMass players in the top 35 “Small School”NFL prospects for 2009 list (scroll down for the rest of the list after clicking the link).
They are:
29. CB Sean Smalls ~ Massachusetts (6004, 203), 4.50/4.53, PFA
32. OT Ben Coblyn ~ Massachusetts (6073, 296), 5.00/5.05, PFA (Ex-Boston [...]
May 23, 2008
R.J. Cobbs joins the Calgary Stampeders
Former UMass CB R.J. Cobbs (UMass bio) has signed a contract with the Calgary Stampeders. His earlier career included the NY Giants.
Also with the Stampeders is Shannon James.
James has done well with the Stamps . Hopefully, R.J. will prosper too.
