Saturday, June 18, 2011

Saturday--June 18, 2011

The UMass website has the next issue of their 2011 season preview with details of the game with Boston College.

I saw the following  link over on BC Blog "Eagle in Atlanta". When we play the Eagles this year, they won't have Matt Ryan like they did in 2007.

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Keepers College Football ratings has his Spring FCS Football Stats page up. It's a must for statistics nuts.

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Jeff Thomas of MassLive.com has a short article on college football income and expenses that adds a link to the 108-page NCAA report I commented on yesterday.

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Former UMass student Taurus Londono has an article for Yahoo Sports that discusses the complicated relationship between Massachusetts and Connecticut and their various sports teams including UMass and UConn.

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Delaware OnLine has a story about the CAA's intention to push for five years of eligibility for football. Apparently that means just what it says, football players would be able to actually play for five years.

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Two MAC athletic directors were named Under Armour regional Athletic Directors-of-the-year. Temple was named for the Northeast and Western Michigan for the Central.

Temple's continuing upgrade of their athletic facilities is impressive.

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