Robert Holub, Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, sent the following email to UMass Amherst campus community and alumni network this afternoon. The UMass Amherst Football Team will be moving to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) in 2013 as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). We talked about what this move means… Continue Reading
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UMass Comments on Potential FBS Move
UMass Athletic Director John McCutcheon had this to say today regarding the football team’s potential move to FBS: There are several dominoes that have to fall. Some of them have and some of them are lined up. But we still have several issues that need to be addressed and hurdles to clear for this to… Continue Reading
UMass Football | MAC Is A Good Option
I like to think that I have enough integrity to admit when I am wrong. I recently wrote an article about my opinion on UMass Football joining the Mid-American Conference (MAC). In that article, I talked about how I thought the Big East was a much better choice for UMass. I used arguments about natural… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
UMass Football – Moving On Up?
As some of you might remember, my Open Letter to Jack Wilson, President of the University of Massachusetts received quite a lot of attention. As such, I’ve been following the story on UMass football’s potential move from the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Today, the Boston Globe ran a pretty… Continue Reading