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It is strange that pretty good MAC teams can recruit guys who can dribble, pass, shoot, and play D, but we recruit guys who can only do one, or some, of those things, with a bigger budget. Some of it is probably adapting to the changing NIL landscape, including the modestly growing UMass budget. He ...

Maddening and crappy season, which followed up an historically bad football season. I'm sure we'll run it all back.

Absolutely need to slow it down. They're getting fast break buckets on our made hoops !!

I take it all back. Frank's a genius, stayed the course. Way to go! Go UMass !!!!

One coach is living in the 21st century, another coach -- making alot more $ -- is living in the 20th century.

Floyd wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2026 11:11 am These refs are pretty bad

Ya, this guy, Byers, has drawn a handful of fouls just flailing on rebounds. It's pathetic.

Add that last series to the anti-basketball IQ highlight reel under Frank. Inexcusable. That said, I love the strategy here. Hopefully that last series got any end of game boneheadedness out of the way.

Wetzel's right: https://x.com/i/status/2030329579689111641

Wonder how long it'll take UMass to change course. If Frank had any pride, he'd take a pay cut to allocate more to players.

Could be that Ryan Bamford is the smartest guy in the room. Knows that football and basketball is self-cannibalizing, and as a result, he won't overleverage the balance sheet on the minor league rustbelt circuit. In the meantime, he holds strong on one of the nation's premier hockey teams, a team ...

Frank should resign. He won't because he'd be leaving $6 mil on the table to coach his son, but this is a disaster.

Between this and football... I mean, what more can be said..?

I like what Wimbley brings, but man, he must lead the country in missed layups.

Good movement and activity so far.

bottom line wrote: Wed Feb 18, 2026 7:27 am Last night was a perfect example of what has killed this team all season. Once Leo goes to the bench, UMass goes to hell. There is no one to replace him.

Well, to be fair, Clerc had started playing really well until he was inexplicably banished to the bench.

You're right, LS. The bar is being lowered. This team hasn't improved its D, is a middle of the pack MAC team, and is going nowhere fast.

I was not entertained watching UMass struggle against a bottom third tertiary Midwest school, but I'm glad others were.

Wildly successful lower level coach was, and is, the way to go in this environment. I'm a Frank guy, but he's cooked. It's gonna be a long two more years of this.

How many times have we heard that a guy has scored their career high against us? Seemingly every game. I'd really like to know Frank's plan to improve the D this season.