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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 ...

Two notables from your post, Mike:
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. If that plays out to be true in March, then it makes stomaching the MAC move a little easier.
2. If we were still in the A10, #168 would be the ...

Floyd wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 6:17 am Juice, the UMasshoops alarm clock. First to post everyday

69MG wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 7:26 am ^ What we haven't figured out yet is whether Juice is just getting up in the morning or just getting home from a long night out!

Listen guys, I'm here to post opinions about UMass basketball. I'm not messing around.

Maybe I'm missing the joke here, but UMass played their first exhibition this year against Brown, a D1 Ivy. I know Brown isn't the cream of the Ivy crop, but I'd consider that a legit exhibition where our guys were testing themselves against other D1 players. And last year they played an exhibition ...

Collegian article: https://dailycollegian.com/2025/10/umass-mens-basketball-defeats-rhode-island-college-in-final-preseason-exhibition/


I'm not going to take much from exhibitions, but this is the type of thing I love to see:
I like playing with [Bettiol], [Bettiol] likes playing with me ...

I didn't follow the game at all yesterday, so I'll try to be positive. We got outclassed on the road for CMU's homecoming game with a depleted roster. We're starting to see some guys get healthy again. Rocko returned and broke a long TD yesterday. Gibson was upgraded from out to questionable, so ...

TJ was selected #49 overall in the G League draft. Heading to the Wisconsin Herd, the Milwaukee Bucks affiliate.

WMUA is back at it with a recap of the Brown exhibition: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4iJZHZ ... 6b6f30443a

^This is awesome. Kudos to you and your continued support for UMass basketball.