Friday, August 14, 2015

Friday--August 14th, 2015

UMass adds South Florida and Maine to future schedules. South Florida is a AAC team and that's where we want to spend our future. Whipple and Co. have always recruited Florida heavily and it'll serve to increase our presence there.

Northeast FCS teams are tougher to come by. With Northeastern and BU gone, and we probably wouldn't want a Patriot league team, so that leaves New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island.

Hopefully, the Black Bears won't kick our butts like they did in 2013 :)

Dan Malone has a post on the announcement. He also looks at the future schedules.

The Portland Press-Herald reports from the Maine side.

The Bulls blog "Voodoo Five" is not impressed.


2016 Schedule
Sept. 3                     at Florida
Sept. 10                  CONNECTICUT (Gillette Stadium)
Sept. 17                  at Boston College
Sept. 24                  MISSISSIPPI STATE (Gillette Stadium)
Oct. 1                       TULANE (Gillette Stadium)
Oct. 8                       at Old Dominion
Oct. 15                    LOUISIANA TECH (Gillette Stadium)
Oct. 29                    at Appalachian State
Nov. 5                      at Troy
Nov. 19                   at BYU
Nov. 26                   at Hawaii

2017 Schedule
Sept. 2                     at Connecticut
Sept. 9                     OLD DOMINION
Sept. 16                  at Temple
Sept. 23                  at Mississippi State
Sept. 30                  OHIO
Oct. 7                       HAWAII
Oct. 14                    at South Florida
Oct. 21                    GEORGIA SOUTHERN
Oct. 28                    APPALACHIAN STATE
Nov. 4                      at Tennessee
Nov. 11                   MAINE
Nov. 18                   at BYU

2018 Schedule
Sept. 1                     at Boston College
Sept. 8                     at Georgia Southern
Sept. 15                  at Florida International
Sept. 22                  CHARLOTTE
Sept. 29                  at Ohio
Oct. 6                       SOUTH FLORIDA
Nov. 3                      TROY
Nov. 10                   BYU

2019 Schedule
Aug. 31                   MAINE
Sept. 14                  at Charlotte
Oct. 19                    at Louisiana Tech
Nov. 9                      at Army
Nov. 23                   BYU

2020 Schedule
Oct. 17                    at Mississippi State
Nov. 21                   ARMY

2021 Schedule
Sept. 11                  at Colorado
Nov. 20                   at Army

2022 Schedule
Sept. 10                  at Tulane
Nov. 12                   ARMY

2023 Schedule
Sept. 9                    at Indiana

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Dan Malone previews the Miami (Ohio) Red Hawks. Most pundits have Miami at bottom of the MAC East in preseason previews. Enjoy 'em in 2015; there are no Miami's on the 2016 and 2017 schedules...

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Matty Vautour has some football notes about the future schedules and reports A.J. Doyle will play at TE in 2015. In Doyle's UMass bio he's up to 6-3 238.

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Dan Malone reports on alternative uniforms for the BC-Notre Dame game.

The BC blog "BC Interruption" has a post on the Eagles throw-back uniforms.

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A Lynchburg newspaper considers the Liberty offensive line including UMass transfer Rich Queen.

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Toledo is ready for another shot at NIU.

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And now---- Victor Cruz has his own Nike model shoes.

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