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The rule used to be for a goalie to stay in net to have a .950+ save percentage and under 2 goals allowed. I wonder if we’ll see Hrabal tonight.

Forget the "upgrade" I think that is a chicken and egg thing. piece of shit 17k stadium and can't even fill that. But back in the day when we were a top shelf 1AA team think we got 17k or 20k once or twice. From 2003-2011 (which I have the data easily accessible) it happened once or twice...

I assume they don’t want to move it later. Hockey opener is that night.

Feels like MACtion is renegotiating with ESPN on TV extension and UMass and Delaware are coming in with this for about $2 million per school for 10 years. $250 million - 10 years. . Your basketball will be just fine. A10 will likely lose more teams as well. AAC might grab somebody with Army and Big...

^ if you believe Bell, and I do, because no one else wanted the job at the time.

^That I believe. Carvel has said if his team hadn’t lost in the ECACs he wouldn’t have been in town visiting his in laws. And if he wasn’t visiting his in-laws he wouldn’t have taken the interview. He had no interest in leaving St Lawrence (his undergrad alma mater and where he played) but Bamford t...

Others in the athletic department pulled the strings to get Carvel and Verdi. And just stop "what about hockey???" Palm is right.. others should get credit for that hire. Citation requested I know for me it's people that have worked at UMass for a long time that would be in position to kn...

^It’s been like this since the upgrade with the exception perhaps of 1 or 2 Whipple seasons

I think this shows how good a coach Whipple was and also that the problem is bigger than the head coach.

palm14 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 5:30 pm Others in the athletic department pulled the strings to get Carvel and Verdi.

TheInsider wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 7:03 pm And just stop "what about hockey???" Palm is right.. others should get credit for that hire.

Citation requested

You’re not seeing elevated attendance because the team isn’t good. It’s the same issue with basketball. That doesn’t mean people don’t care, it just means they’re not going to spend precious time on a team that’s no fun to watch. I think we have different definitions of caring. If someone is not wi...

When UMass starts winning, the stadium will be full. It's the only game in town in Western Mass and I think that the local population will embrace the team as "their" team. Similar situation as in Buffalo - either Bills or Bulls... UMass consistently drew 15K as an FCS team , no reason to...

You’re not seeing elevated attendance because the team isn’t good. It’s the same issue with basketball. That doesn’t mean people don’t care, it just means they’re not going to spend precious time on a team that’s no fun to watch. I think we have different definitions of caring. If someone is not wi...

When UMass starts winning, the stadium will be full. It's the only game in town in Western Mass and I think that the local population will embrace the team as "their" team. Similar situation as in Buffalo - either Bills or Bulls... UMass consistently drew 15K as an FCS team , no reason to...

^^^^^ I disagree that it has been a failed experiment. Financially our revenue is much higher now at the FBS level than it ever was in FCS. I can't find the numbers but I believe the program was losing money each year during the final seasons of the FCS level before the jump up to FBS. Even with ho...

UMass to the MAC is throwing in the towel. I think IF UMass has an offer to the MAC (a HUGE IF) and they turn it down instead to stay in a 1 bid, further spread out Conference without football then they might as well throw in the towel on football. There are 2 maybe 3 realistic options things that ...