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Excellent article. Thank you Ed for all that you do.

Westfield is cute town. Definitely underrated.

Plus Southwick is right there. So if those people are more "grounded in your reality".... Personally, you couldn't pay me to live there again and I've lived in rural Alabama.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/04/13/ce ... -southwick

Is is it free labor if the value of the free ride and all the perks are worth 50, 60, 70+K per year? Think of a kid getting out of school and their first job pays that. Corporations make big money off their employees, should they have to share the profits with all the employees? I get it, everyone ...

That’s the problem, and that’s why the Collective pitch is a hard sell for me. Despite the name, we are asked to fund individuals, NOT the collective. The idea that buying off Matt Cross or Cohen will somehow lift up the entire program is a theory I am not convinced and not one I can support with m...

Insider, in regards to your comment "Umass will have the best facilities and most investment in the MAC". Having a million dollar house in a neighborhood made up of $400K houses is never a good investment. To play devil's advocate. I like the analogy of kids trick or treating: UMass is th...

IIRC he said 8-10x "conference revenues". I'd take that to mean revenue UMass gets from the MAC vs from the A10.

I assume that includes things like TV, NCAA credits, etc. But does not include ticket sales, merchandise, or institutional subsidy.

"Equity in Athletics" from the US Department of Education has financial data available including for private schools. Although it is more outdated than USA Today's. I'm also not sure if it's as comprehensive compared with USA Today's methodology / what they're able to find with FOIA reques...

^ If I am an AD: "Good Lord, I hope they join a union. Then I hope they strike. Then I can drop the sport." That's what Starbucks did in Seattle. :) 🤣🤣🤣 These boys aren’t in the coal mines or on the assembly lines, seems pretty ridiculous. God forbid people exercise their constitutional r...

https://getsomemaction.com/news/2024/2/29/general-mid-american-conference-to-add-university-of-massachusetts-as-full-member.aspx The official website of the MAC is " getsomemaction.com "? They've pitched their entire public identity on fun midweek gambling of #MACtion. They couldn't affor...

UMass needs a seasoned OC who won’t change the dna of the offense too much. Based on the personnel, they need to stick with an option plan at this point. Can’t recruit or replace an entire offense in this time period, IMO. I wonder if Davidson's HC Scott Abell would be out of reach for an OC positi...

Think it's time to have a central FBS place to post media contracts and FBS distribution information. Will start with a series of post as the early CFP link now goes to an updated link and will do this one from memory. FBS distribution was set with 64.5% going to power conferences, which distribute...

If it's more profitable to use machines, their implementation will happen regardless. Keeping that in mind, if a job currently exists, it means it is currently not practical or feasible to automate/outsource. If you need a person to do the job, the least an employer can do is give them some dignity ...

^ Somehow, I found this on the VA Tech message board. 247 board (in April 2020) says he's committed but doing a 2-year mission And will be a part of the 2023 class. This info is 16 months old, though. (In response to this post by SynthHokie) Excuse my ignorance, but how comfortable will he be in Am...

Stay in the Atlantic 10. UMass is a basketball school. With the Pac-12 likely completely disappearing, there will now only be five power conferences in college basketball. The A-10 will compete with the MW, AAC, and WCC for the title of 6th best conference. That will likely mean 2+ bids. There will...

Yes much more stable now. No issues. Thank you, Mike!