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Words of wisdom here from a UMass legend
The athletic administration at UMass is one of if not the worst in D1 athletics. The system administration has allowed that and does nothing to foster accountability or change
Unless changes are made in Amherst, it's all a waste of time
Coach Cal praised HPU for flying students out postgame.
He added: “Administrations win championships. Coaches win games. In this era of NIL, if you’re not totally into it and they’re not committed, you’re not winning. You just can’t. And High Point is.”
Worth the full listen.
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Sounds like UMass' completely out of touch athletic administration has put a cherry on top of today, refusing to acknowledge The Southwick Jug Trophy and asking UConn to not acknowledge it either
So not only is UMass incompetent, they're going to be petty too
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UMass has won the 2021 NCAA Men's ice hockey National Championship
Amherst, MA is title town tonight #413
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Coach I'm glad to hear you want the trophy. UConn won the game and you deserve it. I hope UMass does the right thing and gives it to you and your players
It's clear UConn wants The Southwick Jug and I apologize for anything said indicating they did not
This is 100% false. I specifically asked for the trophy at the end of the game and I was told point blank you folks weren’t giving it up. @FightMA247 come clean, don’t put this on @UConnFootball or @UConnHuskies
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UMass athletics is the most absurdly run shitshow in college sports
The idea they would still shoot off fireworks to basically celebrate not being shutout is so pathetic it defies logic
I'd trust the law firm of Dewey, Cheatam & Howe to get me off a murder charge before I'd trust UMass athletics to make the correct decision
fireworks go off as UMass kicks a field goal to cut the deficit to 42. laughs fill the press box.
45-3 Northern Illinois with 6:13 to play
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Cherry on top of this day: Have it from multiple sources that UMass was in charge of the actual trophy for this mutually-beneficially-sponsored rivalry
They didn't get it ready in time
So Buffalo did not get a trophy today. UMass is the best at failing to turn over trophies
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7-3 UConn with two winnable games left. Good for them
Perhaps the most stark challenge to the "You can't succeed in the Northeast in football"
Huskies were a laughingstock for a while. Hired a good coach with good assistants, invested in NIL, now two bowls in three years
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UMass hockey just swept the #1 team in the nation
The standard this program has set for itself and lives by is truly unbelievable
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UMass is apparently in the position to quite literally find life on Mars before they win an FBS bowl game
That is perhaps the most on-brand UMass thing in the history of the University of Massachusetts
UMass Amherst discovery of new Mars mineral suggests potential for life wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/…
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Ryan Bamford firing Don Brown in this fashion is so cowardly I can't even put it into words
Bamford gave Brown an ultimatum two weeks ago: Win two of the final three games to keep your job. That alone is preposterous but to let him go at this point in the season is beyond disrespectful
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Former Clemson and Georgia Tech QB Taisun Phommachanh (@TPhommachanh_7) has announced his commitment to UMass on his IG account
Former 4* out of Avon Old Farms, the Bridgeport, CT native is back in New England
Cannot understate how big this add is for the Minutemen
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UMass announces beer, wine now available at McGuirk and Mullins 247sports.com/college/massac… via @FightMA247
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The University of Massachusetts football team is 1-0 for only the second time in their FBS history
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Congrats to UConn, 2024 Fenway Bowl champs
UConn is a school that takes athletics seriously. They were tired of being the butt of the joke in FBS football and decided to do something about it
UMass' admins can only dream to make change like that happen. Your turn Minutemen
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It wasn't pretty tonight but UMass MBB has won 20 games for the first time in a decade
A major accomplishment for @coachFMartin, his staff and particularly the Minutemen players
This team is poised to make noise in the A10 Tournament
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Make no mistake about this, UMass cancelled Senior Day yesterday. They cancelled it. Then they faced a sweeping, national-attention-level backlash and have now tried to spin zone what happened
Also conspicuously lacking from this statement is an actual apology
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Seeing what UConn has been able to do in football through legitimate support, investment, good hires and NIL given where they were not even a decade go both shows that it *can* be done in New England and that UMass seems further away than ever which is crushingly depressing
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Hopefully UMass and UConn can make a pretty easy decision to accept this trophy but at this point it seems like both schools aren't on board which is a real shame
God forbid something fun gets added to a rivalry game because one of the schools doesn't like the source
Sounds like UMass' completely out of touch athletic administration has put a cherry on top of today, refusing to acknowledge The Southwick Jug Trophy and asking UConn to not acknowledge it either
So not only is UMass incompetent, they're going to be petty too
Cool
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Zionsville, IN/Zionsville P/K AJ Vinatieri (@AjVinatieri) has committed to UMass per his Instagram
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The idea that the UMass Minutemen are headed to consecutive #FrozenFour berths is truly remarkable. This team and program has been so totally rebuilt into a national power that no one would have believed it if you told them it was coming five years ago
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This is UMass football's brand nationally. They are the punchline
UMASS DOWN 45-0 IN THE 4TH QUARTER
FIELD GOAL IS GOOD AND FIREWORKS 😂😂
#PMSLive
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Vinatieri chose UMass' scholarship offer over numerous other offers and PWO opportunities from all over CFB including among others LSU, Indiana, Vanderbilt, Michigan, Missouri and Miami
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Wanted to take a moment to say thank you everyone who follows this account as we just past 10K on the platform. Never thought I'd see a number like that when I took over covering UMass on @247Sports. I appreciate everyone in this crazy little corner of the interwebs #UMassTwitter
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Don Brown's Arizona players, who were with him for only a year, are thrilled for him
Brown's former UMass players are ecstatic he's returning to Amherst
Numerous Minutemen alums who never played for Brown have expressed happiness with the hire
Brown commands universal respect
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UMass alum with a $40M/yr business and yes, the Minutemen would be thrilled to play at Mike's Hot Honey 🏟 what a weird coincidence
How Mike’s Hot Honey built a $40 million a year business with a single product cnb.cx/472Svi8
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Martin: Coaching in the A10 was appealing to me, but I came here to coach at UMass, not against A10 schools
With due respect, we played longstanding rivalries my first year and no one came. This year we won games, attendance blew up
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This is what Ryan Bamford has wrought for the University of Massachusetts. The man is a charlatan and a coward and yet he somehow cashes a salary of over $700K from the Commonwealth and is not held accountable for anything
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For UMass to go from this play right here, 61 seconds remaining in the game, to losing is unfathomable
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Per his @instagram account [w15dens] former South Carolina center and Brockton native Wildens Leveque (@WildensLeveque) is on campus visiting #UMass today
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I'm told the director of on-ice officiating for @hockey_east was at the UMass/BC game today
Word is Greg Carvel spoke with him at length following the game
"Spoke with" probably isn't the correct phrasing...Apparently Carvel tore him a new asshole for at least 10 minutes
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It's unfortunate for UMass fans but it's difficult to dispute
McG needs a lot of work, the stadium itself and the area surrounding it. If UMass really wants to be a serious FBS program, that needs to happen sometime soon
I’ve been to over 100 college football stadiums
I say with full confidence this is the worst one in the country
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It's been a whirlwind around NSD but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who follows + engages with this account
Just went past 5,000 followers which I never would have expected when I started doing this. I'm humbled and will keep trying to give the best UMass coverage I can
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UMass is headed to the Garden!
Minutemen find a way in their biggest game of the year (so far) and win 3-1 on the road at Providence to punch their ticket to the HEA semifinals
This win should put UMass solidly into an at-large position for the NCAA Tournament
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I'm fortunate to sit next to a gentleman at McGuirk who has had season tickets for 60 years. As you might imagine it's not easy for him to get to games. UMass wanted to honor him on the field today
He told them no
UMass has a lot of people who care and deserve so much better
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UMass fans can look forward to the @scottzolak and @adamvinatieri carpool to football games next season
@Marc_Bertrand can recap them on Monday shows think it'll make for some good content
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Per his Instagram, Central Catholic's Jaden Wiggins (@jaden_wiggins) has committed to UMass
Wiggins is a DL and the son of former @Patriots TE Jermaine Wiggins (@jwiggs85) and brother of Arizona DE Jermaine Wiggins Jr (@Jwiggs85jr)
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UMass 🏈's record under Ryan Bamford as AD is now 20-85. The record of the coaches he's hired is 7-50
UMass M🏀 has played ZERO postseason games (NCAAT, NIT, CBI, etc) since his hiring in 2015, and he's on his 3rd head coach
Where is the accountability?
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Is it the worst loss for UMass football ever? I mean who knows at this point? There have been far too many of them over the past 14 years to even keep track
What I know is nothing will change until someone somewhere has the balls to hold the AD responsible for abject failure
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Stay classy Minnesota fans littering the ice after the loss
Greatest achievement these people can claim is being able to spell their own state name
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I've never been more sincere when I tell you that there is literally no school in D1 with football at either level where Ryan Bamford would still be employed other than UMass
The level of unseriousness is undefinable
Meanwhile the guy has been on a milk carton since February
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UMass fans are trying to make the best of a bad situation and organically create something fun with #TheJunkyard moniker for McGuirk
If you're a UMass admin who has an issue with that, you should do yourself and everyone else a favor and resign because you're part of the problem
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This should be the second trophy UConn took home this season but UMass' athletic department is run by petty 🤡🤡
Even if it's late, hope to see UConn end up with The Southwick Jug as well soon
"You're coming home with me."
ALT UConn's Jelani Stafford walks through the visiting batting tunnel with the Wasabi Fenway Bowl Trophy.
ALT UConn's Jelani Stafford walks through the visiting batting tunnel yelling in celebration with the Wasabi Fenway Bowl Trophy.
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This is a monumental achievement for Makar and @UMassHockey, one that will warrant its own banner in the @MullinsCenter
Winning hockey's Heisman is no small feat. Makar has been head and shoulders the best player in college hockey this year, well-deserved honor
#Minutemen #GoU
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Martin: I coach UMass, not the A10
I'm a team guy. The whole basketball or football school, it's UMass, not one or the other
We're in this together
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Let's update the tracker:
UMass football is now 21-101 under Ryan Bamford. The record of the coaches he has hired is 8-66
UMass' overall FBS record is now 26-132
Bamford's hires are 4-4 vs the FCS so his hires' record vs other FBS opponents is 4-62
4 FBS wins in 11 seasons
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Now that's a recruit that gets some 👀👀for @coachFMartin and UMass
Four-star SoFla big, Wimbley is a Top 20 recruit from the Sunshine State. Martin's 305 roots coming through with a player that should make an impact right away for the Minutemen in the MAC
NEWS: Former Florida State commit Dwayne Wimbley Jr. has committed to UMass, he tells @247Sports
“I trust Coach Frank Martin and his staff with my development.”
247sports.com/player/dwayne-…
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It has been the better part of a decade since UMass scored 40 points or more in a game
If UMass can move the football this year, the optimism is legit
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Firing Ryan Bamford isn't a magic bullet. It won't fix what is wrong with UMass athletics in one move. But it's necessary to show there is accountability at the school and they're trying to take athletics seriously
There is not a more unserious program in the nation right now
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I have no doubt UMass' admin will say something to the effect of "this was all a big misunderstanding" and try to drag someone in the process of shifting blame, probably me, but nothing surprises at this point
Just another Saturday in Amherst
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We reached out to all four current UMass football commits and confirmed from them that their scholarship offers are being honored by the new coaching staff
They have either spoken to coach Brown or will be very soon. That's a good way to do business if you're Brown and UMass
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Minutemen lose a heartbreaker in 2OT to end their season
Outstanding game from UMass they just came up a little short
Excellent season for the Minutemen despite the loss. Sets them up well for the future
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There is no team in FBS football, maybe even all of college football, that snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like UMass does
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UMass is going dancing
Denver wins the NCHC title tonight and that result will put the Minutemen in the NCAA Tournament
UMass will be in Springfield as the 4-seed and they might just get the Pios in the first round
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UMass as an athletic department may never have seen a bigger play in a bigger spot than that Lagunov goal
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UMass HC Don Brown has announced that Clemson/Georgia Tech transfer Taisun Phommachanh (@TPhommachanh_7) will be QB1 for Saturday's opener against NMSU
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The lack of accountability from UMass athletics and the University of Massachusetts continues to defy logic
If this team goes 0-12 there is literally no justification for retaining the athletic director and his cronies (not that there is currently)
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Significant Changes Needed at UMass Football
247sports.com/college/massac…
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UMass' Ryan Bamford (@UMassADBamford) announces on the Power Hour that the @MidnightRideNIL Collective for football has received over $100K in contributions in the past week
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UMass hiring Don Brown to be next head football coach 247sports.com/college/massac… via @FightMA247
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UMass with their biggest win of the year going to Mullins East (Conte) and defeating the unanimous #1 team in the nation in BC
The PWR boost is massive for the Minutemen and they have a chance to make even more of a statement tomorrow night in Amherst
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If there is a more peak UMass Athletics situation than having a sports schedule leaked because it's on a banner outside the arena before it's supposed to be released then I haven't seen it
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Frank Martin has jumped in the deep end with #UMassTwitter and the man is winning every 240 characters
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It's all academic at this point, UMass will earn the #4 seed in the A10 Tournament and get a double bye into the quarterfinals
Tremendous season for the Minutemen and they've got themselves in position to really be a dangerous team in Brooklyn
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UMass men's soccer ⚽️, who didn't even make their conference tournament because the A10 is kind of a 🤡 show, just got an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2017
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When URI decides they want to jump to FBS they'll also immediately be in a better position to succeed than UMass currently is in their 14th season at the highest level
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If UMass' Chancellor is serious about elevating the campus and specifically the football program, then there are several people, coaches and administrators, who should no longer be employed by UMass come Monday morning
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It hasn't happened yet despite consecutive Frozen Fours and a National Championship but sometime very soon these great EMass players are going to realize that UMass is the best local school to both develop and win
The Beanpot is cool or whatever but it doesn't actually mean shit
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Every single team that moves to FBS has figured or is figuring it out
Every. Single. Team......Except UMass
What is it going to take to get some accountability and changes in Amherst?
Sam Houston started 0-8 in its first FBS season last year. It's now 6-2 and bowl eligible in year 2, having won nine of its last 12 games.
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UMass has landed a huge commitment from former Top247 4* DL Marcus Bradley out of the @247SportsPortal
Bradley was at Vanderbilt previously and was the #192 overall prospect in the 2021 class
247sports.com/Player/Marcus-…
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Walt Bell needs to be fired within one minute of this game ending
No post-game presser, no nothing
Pack your shit and don't let the door hit you. Bye
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It's peak #UMass that on the eve of a massive statuary dedication and the biggest home football game of the FBS era they cancel the student tailgate for nonsensical, inconsistent reasons while a former athletic administrator absolutely roasts the department on Twitter
IYKYK
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There is the news UMass fans have been waiting for. Looks like the Minutemen are heading back to the MAC for all sports this time, starting in 2025-26
Sources: University of Massachusetts is set to join the MAC conference in all sports for the 2025-26 season. MAC presidents voted to invite the UMass as a new member today, and UMass is expected to accept.
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The University of Massachusetts is your 2019 @hockey_east regular season champions
#GoU
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Since UMass hired Ryan Bamford in March of 2015, UMass has played exactly 100 football games
They are 19-81
There is, quite literally, no other FBS football institution in the nation where he would still be the athletic director with a gridiron record like that
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Congrats to all the #Minutemen seniors who played their last game for UMass today. It wasn't an easy road, but you always gave your all for the Maroon & White. We wish you the best
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UMass' Gridiron Club (@umassgridiron) has announced a $500,000 donation from brothers Paul and David Manganaro that will go towards the new HD video board at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Paul Manganaro is a former #Minutemen linebacker and current president of the Gridiron Club #GoU
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Former Clemson and Miami (FL) WR Frank Ladson has made his commitment to UMass official
247sports.com/player/frank-l…
Ladson was very close with Taisun Phommachanh while at Clemson and the former #39 overall player in the 2019 247Sports Composite has one year to play UMass
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The gentleman who sits behind me at UMass has had his same seats for over 50 years. He played football for the school before getting his tickets
He told me today he doesn't plan on renewing them
There is no greater indictment of what's happening at UMass with football than that
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An extended NIL deal for Jaylen Curry means UMass' star freshman PG should be staying in Amherst for the 2024-25 season. Big news for the Minutemen
Excited to extend our NIL agreement with A10 All Rookie Team Member Jaylen Curry @Jaylencurry0 through the 2024-2025 season! Let's go UMass and continue to #buildittogether 🏀🚀 #UMassBasketball #NIL
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Zac Jones officially forgoes his final two seasons with UMass and signs with the New York Rangers
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Let's update the tracker shall we?
UMass football under Ryan Bamford is now 21-93. The record of the coaches he has hired is 8-58
Bamford's hires are now *50* games under .500
The cherry on top: UMass' record against the FCS under Bamford? 4-4 (all the Ws from Don Brown)
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The Michael Hrabal 🇨🇿 Era has arrived in Amherst
He's your #1 the rest of the way
The Minutemen sweep a ranked opponent on the road out west and move to 4-1-0 on the season
UMass looks like they're back to the form we've come to expect on the ice
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Final from Kent, OH
Kent State 42, UMass 6
UMass has not scored a TD in the 2nd half of a game all season. They haven't scored a TD at all in the past two games. They are the worst FBS team in the nation
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UMass' unnamed visitor from this past weekend was former Miami and Jackson State WR Mark Pope (@markpope06)
He's announced his commitment to UMass on IG, was a former Top-50 player in the c/o 2018
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Another NHL contract for a Minuteman, UMass center Dans Locmelis has signed with the Bruins
Locked up Locmelis 🔒
The #NHLBruins have signed Dans Locmelis to a three-year, entry-level contract.
📰: bit.ly/4cka1C8
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Helluva effort from UMass tonight, dominating Maine for 60 minutes and earning a convincing 5-1 victory
This win also all but guarantees that the Minutemen will be in the NCAA Tournament once again
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The UMass Minutewomen are going dancing #MarchMadness
UMass wins the @A10WBB Tournament and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nearly 30 years
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Vannini's newest CUSA piece reports (for the first time I believe) that UMass is at the top of the conference's list to get to 12 teams
"UMass is the top option, but only as an all-sports member"
Two years ago, Conference USA nearly collapsed.
Now it’s finishing perhaps the most successful calendar year in its history with a Fiesta Bowl.
“I’m not going to let this go away under my watch.”
This is how a conference comes back from the brink ⬇️ theathletic.com/5165372/2023…
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It's Twitter official, @AjVinatieri is signed up with the Minutemen
Vinatieri can place kick but is slated to make his impact at UMass as a punter
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Minutemen take one from the #13 team in the nation on the road. That's a huge victory on the diamond for UMass
March Madness applies to baseball too, right!?
We knock off #13 Virginia to even up the series!!
#Flagship🚩
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Final from Amherst
#13 UMass 3, #1 Denver 0
Colorado Seminary got punched in the mouth this weekend and their defending champion shine is long gone
UMass made sure everyone knew they hadn't gone anywhere, they just reloaded
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Before it becomes a narrative:
Hockey East referees aren't good. Hockey East referees haven't been good for a while. Hockey East referees are *not* the reason UMass lost tonight
Minutemen only had one player (Fille Lindberg) show up. You don't win playoff games like that
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McGovern: UMass can't afford to be left behind again 247sports.com/college/massac… via @FightMA247 @MaroonMusket
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