Game 3: Vanderbilt

Dickie Dunn · Post by **Dickie Dunn** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:15 pm

jjmc85 wrote:
Rocks22 wrote:Matty with additional details:

@GazetteUMass: According to UMass AD John McCutcheon: Vandy approached UM about changing date of 2018 game. UMass offered to just take buyout instead
I REALLY don't like this. UMass won't have a conference at that point and time. Why are we giving up home games? Methinks something stinkth in Denmark or however the saying goes...

How do you know this?

69MG · Post by **69MG** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:22 pm

Franklin Fanatic wrote:
69MG wrote:Vandy just bought us out of the 2018 game at Gillette. We get $650,000 but we will probably have trouble filling that slot.
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.co ... -at-umass/
Why will we have trouble filling a spot 4 years from now?

Maybe I should have said we will probably have trouble filling it with a high level opponent. Unless things break our way, we could be independent or in a crap conference. With the landscape changing, teams in crap conferences will have a more difficult time getting games with the big 5.

njumass08 · Post by **njumass08** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:38 am

According to Matty V, Vanderbilt is going to be handing out "Massacre UMass" stickers before the game.

I get it, it's cute, but you'd think with their current struggles they might want to be a little more reserved.

photoman · Post by **photoman** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:44 am

njumass08 wrote:According to Matty V, Vanderbilt is going to be handing out "Massacre UMass" stickers before the game.

I get it, it's cute, but you'd think with their current struggles they might want to be a little more reserved.

No match for our "Vandalize Vanderbilt" stickers.

Rocks22 · Post by **Rocks22** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 7:05 am

njumass08 wrote:According to Matty V, Vanderbilt is going to be handing out "Massacre UMass" stickers before the game.

I get it, it's cute, but you'd think with their current struggles they might want to be a little more reserved.

If only they could be witty like "Muck U Fass" or something.

njumass08 · Post by **njumass08** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 7:26 am

^

Bood-em-cha.

Touche.
I see what you did there. Very nice, very nice.

UMass1991 · Post by **UMass1991** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:36 am

Dickie Dunn wrote:
jjmc85 wrote:
Rocks22 wrote:Matty with additional details:

@GazetteUMass: According to UMass AD John McCutcheon: Vandy approached UM about changing date of 2018 game. UMass offered to just take buyout instead
I REALLY don't like this. UMass won't have a conference at that point and time. Why are we giving up home games? Methinks something stinkth in Denmark or however the saying goes...
How do you know this?

Just a note: Umass didn't want to give up the home game. Vandy wanted to change the date and Umass couldn't. I am sure if the date worked, the game would have been rescheduled

Crank · Post by **Crank** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:13 am

^I find this very hard to believe given that per Matty V. we only have 2 games scheduled for 2018, Sept. 1 at Boston College and Sept. 15 at Florida International. Seems like it shouldn't have been that difficult to come to a mutually available date if they really wanted to make it work. I have a feeling there is more to the story here...

Puffton395 · Post by **Puffton395** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:25 am

Vanderbilt 2017
09/02 - at Middle Tennessee
11/04 - Western Kentucky

UMass 2017
09/16 - at Temple
09/23 - at Indiana

Maybe Vandy wanted to move this one up a year, I personally believe we do not want to keep loading up our OCC schedule so we said thanks, but no thanks.

Just a thought.

njumass08 · Post by **njumass08** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:29 am

Like the Steve Miller Band says,

http://youtu.be/-WCFUGCOLLU?t=49s

DEM · Post by **DEM** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:29 am

Don't forget that this also depends on Vanderbilt's schedule - they might have had limited availability that just didn't fit UMass's availability. Also keep in mind that use of Gillette might be limited in the future, and that was probably one of Vandy's demands (they will not come to McGuirk, regardless of how much some prefer it).

Doc Moonlight · Post by **Doc Moonlight** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:59 am

Mrs Moonlight and I will be at the game in person. Anyone else going?

DPBOS · Post by **DPBOS** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:21 am

Chris20 wrote:Why would NESN, or anyone else, think that airing UMass football would be a good idea? Is there some indicator of widespread interest in the games that I'm missing?

Ah, cmon? Be real, 2 teams with combined 0-4 records always attract high viewership, ad revenues, etc.

Frigidevil · Post by **Frigidevil** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:25 am

njumass08 wrote:According to Matty V, Vanderbilt is going to be handing out "Massacre UMass" stickers before the game.

I get it, it's cute, but you'd think with their current struggles they might want to be a little more reserved.

They've been on the receiving end of two massacres already, and last year we were only down 10-7 going into the 4th quarter. I dont think now is the time to be expecting a blowout.

DPBOS · Post by **DPBOS** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:32 am

Crank wrote:^I find this very hard to believe given that per Matty V. we only have 2 games scheduled for 2018, Sept. 1 at Boston College and Sept. 15 at Florida International. Seems like it shouldn't have been that difficult to come to a mutually available date if they really wanted to make it work. I have a feeling there is more to the story here...

Yes, plus gridiron games are scheduled years, sometimes a decade+, in advance. If not 2018, then why not a different season before or later? To soon be without a conference affilation, albeit changes can occur, scheduling will become increasingly challenging. In particular, scheduling home games in 1-A tiny McGuirk. Who knows, maybe something positive's afoot.