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A little off topic, but I was looking for spots to go out for a pregame meal and clicked on the Amherst Public House to see if they're open on Mondays (some restaurants close on Mondays). I can't find their website and Yelp is saying they might be permanently closed? That place is pretty new and I ...

How do we think they'll handle the 6th year 7'4" player, Dr. Van Komen? I haven't seen him play so I have no idea how mobile or athletic he is, but he's bound to cause problems inside. We need this new crop of shooters to come out hitting their outside shots. First game jitters, new gym, whatever ...

I have not received my tickets yet, so Monday's mail is much anticipated.

I called the box office, and they told me that if the tickets didn't come by Monday to go to the box office and they will print my 2 tickets for me (and hopefully a parking pass). That's fine, but I have to figure out where ...

WMUA preview of the Marshall game: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xRDZc ... 80605c4579

...I cut the coach slack due to a shorter recruiting window.

I'm cutting Coach H all the slack in the world. I was overly optimistic heading into this season, and it's obvious to me now that it will take a long time to turn around the culture and bring in the right people (players and support ...

Commenting on the Fuss & ONeill waterproofing upgrade, it appears that was already completed at some point in the past and will not be part of the future upgrades. https://www.fando.com/projects/mcguirk- ... l-repairs/

^Yup. I edited my post after I finished reading the entire thing. If I remember correctly, Bamford said something like "we had a plan and quite frankly, we've blown that up" during his impromptu presser. So now that we're in the middle of a historically bad season and he's told us that the plan has ...

By some of the language in there, it sounds like this was sent out a while ago, even before July 1 revenue share went live. I'd like to hear an update following his impromptu press conference.

The Mullins is getting $50M and McGuirk is getting $15M.


Wait, what?



This is in reference to these tweets:
https://x.com/MaroonMusket/status/1983186948849336663
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G4WyApYW8AAp0f7?format=jpg&name=large
Referenced Capital Plan link here: https://www.umassp.edu ...

^ Rev share coming online July 1 was likely, but not a guarantee. When you shut down your only source of NIL funds during a recruiting period without a guarantee of future funding, I'm assuming that can impact recruiting. The current landscape in college sports is that players get paid, so I think ...

ZooMass84 wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 9:33 am The Mullins is getting $50M and McGuirk is getting $15M.

Wait, what?

If I had to make a guess on this NIL issue, it's not that the revenue share dollars weren't available until summer, every school had to deal with that because that's when revenue share went live. The issue that hamstrung Coach H (I'm assuming) is that other schools had immediate NIL dollars ...

The Collegian delivered a good deep dive on the reassembled roster and what we might expect.
https://dailycollegian.com/2025/10/2025-26-umass-mens-basketball-roster-preview/


and an x-factor article highlighting Hankins-Sanford, Ndjigue, Banks, and Bettiol: https://dailycollegian.com/2025/10 ...

New episode of Just Being Frank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVej74gB-eI

There is some solid hoops talk and season preview stuff in their discussion. Of course there's also some "church of Frank" in there too, but it's a good listen to get primed for opening night.

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.


Agreed. I'm not saying the MAC is on par with the A10, which relates to my second ...