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Losing Rivera (and the Egyptian dude) was already going to improve this team, but the new guys seem pretty decent.

I’m watching Ball State right now and the dudes’ next to me are observing how “tickets tonight were cheap” but how “humiliating it’d be if “we” lost to a MAC team.” Awesome. Just awesome.

Hard to contain the excitement around a Wednesday night MAC battle. This is exactly what the promise of FBS and ‘conference stability’ has delivered on. There’s no going back to FCS amateur hour. Game Day experience, quality parking. We got this.

..when we're playing FBS teams w/FCS personnel



Why do we have FCS personnel? Seems like that should have been worked out in year 1-2 of transition. Year 14? Whoever is to “blame,” I think for radically different reasons we can all agree that UMass is simply not up to the task of being an FBS ...

Of course our resident liar and kook is referencing bath houses. Of course.

DougW wrote: Sun Nov 02, 2025 10:11 am I know this isn't football related, but does anybody know what the plan for the $50m at Mullins is?

Hey, Doug. It looks like you should have posted in a different thread or sent in a private message.

ZooMass84 wrote: Sat Nov 01, 2025 9:32 pm sorry, @D_U_N

Oh, you’re back? Being exposed for lying about me or roundly mocked for your ‘end of Buffalo game’ weirdness not enough?

10,200 capacity


That sounds about right for McGuirk. Maybe some of that $15m can be used to tear out empty sections and resize the place. Relative to our average attendance of around 9k, it’d leave a little room for growth or a big match up against, say, Toledo. Plus, 9k packed into a 10k space ...

Juice Stand wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 4:20 pm
1. It does indeed look like the A10 could be a 1-bid conference again this year, with SLU coming in at a league-best #47.

Sure, 1 bid. Another way to look at it is, 7 A10 teams sub-100, zero for MAC. Brutal.

I think I'm going to file a patent tomorrow - REFUSE TO WIN!



Good one! Did you file for patent?
I’ll take a tee shirt.

University of Vermont (UVM) sells a great football tee shirt - “undefeated since 1974 “ (the year the program was disbanded).
Hopefully, someday I’ll also be able to buy a ...

Hockey is a niche sport.. love it.. but not relevant in 90% of the college landscape


It is no more “niche” than the amount of people who follow MAC football. And, more importantly, it is popular in New England where, um, UMass resides. I live in exile in the Midwest and I can promise you when ...

^ yes, we respectfully and strongly disagree. And that’s cool. Dudes like Zoo and Jack might learn something from you.

I know it’s hard, Junior. Take a breath. Calm down. It will help. I don’t “want to be URI.” I think I probably hate them more than your foolish ass. I wrote that I would rather be ‘A URI.’ That is, in the same relative position as URI. Perhaps we need more teachers and less parking attendants? I’ll ...

^ Im sure URI is kicking themselves for not playing FBS.

And, btw, I wouldn't consider being Bamford’s replacement, so you can rest easy. He’s followed the wise counsel of fools like you and moved us into the MAC. There is clearly a larger cultural and institutional failure at work that allows ...

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Joleon, would you rather have us drop down to a Maine/UNH level athletics program? That’s the road we were cruising toward by staying in the A10 as they will continue to lose basketball schools. The football team has been brutal this year but I agree with Steve, the MAC is best for the ...