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A number of UMass seniors included in this "Small School Sleepers" NFL Draft List.
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Sometimes the coaching shuffle is hard to keep straight. Former UMass DL/Special Teams coach Sean Spencer left earlier this year to join Bowling Green.
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After a little more than two months on the job, Mike Elko resigned from UTC last week to accept the defensive coordinator position at Bowling Green under coach Dave Clawson, Elko’s and Huesman’s old boss at Richmond. Elko also coached with Clawson at Fordham University before joining him at Richmond.
Elko will take over for Joe Trainer, who left Bowling Green to become the head coach at Rhode Island. Huesman, who hired Elko away from Hofstra on Jan. 4, said he was surprised by the move."
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Big doin's at Dartmouth. The new AD wants to drop the traditional game with UNH and also wants the Ivy League to participate in the FCS playoffs.
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Anyone who has lived in Massachusetts knows the state marches to different drummer than the the rest of the country. In most states, the local newspapers routinely support athletics at their public universities.
That's not been the case in Bay State. Massachusetts' most influential paper, the Boston Globe, has for decades, been down on UMass sports. Oh, there might be a nice article on women's tennis or something, but any sign that UMass might be gaining traction on achieving some national recognition in basketball and football, prompts a rapid and repeated negative pushback from the Globe. When UMass fans gather over some beers, trying to determine the reason for the Globe's animus is a frequent topic of discussion.
Boston's second tier newspaper the Boston Herald, while not going to SEC levels of cheerleading, consistently adopts a friendlier tone to Minuteman sports.
The balance of power may shift soon...
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