January 12, 2012

I can't find a way to link to it directly, but the UMass Athletic Site has a 30 minute video of Coach Molnar's speech to the Wednesday Sports Luncheon. If I understood his answers correctly during the Q&A (it was hard to hear the questions by the audience), he made some of the following points:

• None of the previous staff was retained.
• He will have about 80 to 81 scholarships this year, the minimum to be in FBS.
• About 20 recruits will visit UMass in the next week, followed by another group of three or so the following week.
• All the new coaching staff will have I-A/FBS expierence as coaches not just as graduate assistants.
• He seemed to be say that he and his staff were mostly bringing in his recruits, not the group recruited by the previous staff.

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MarketWatch says UMass is upgrading its online video transfer abilities to increase coverage of Minutemen athletics.

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Former UMass All-American Kole Ayi of UMass gets a mention in this article on new Colts GM Ryan Grigson.

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Another big milestone for Victor Cruz. He has a daughter.

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