Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Tuesday--January 13th, 2014


On January 13th, 2014, UMass announced Mark Whipple would be introduced the next day as the 30th head coach of UMass football (29 if you count his two eras).

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Dan Malone says the first FBS playoff was a smashing success, and now it should be 8 teams.

Actually, it should be 16 teams, like FCS did for years. All the conference champions of the Power 5 and the Group of five and 6 at large teams.

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An international sports site has a lengthy biography of James Ihedigbo.

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Athlon Sports says one of the winners of the 2014 Bowl season was Conference USA.

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NIU's Da'Ron Brown will be one of three MAC players in the East-West Shrine Game. SB Nation previews the game.

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Bleacher Report grades former UMass player and graduate assistant Neal Brown hiring as HC of Troy as a "B".

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