2024 Game 7: Mizzou

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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:22 pm

photoman wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 2:46 pm Anyone else have a chance to listen to 98.5 the sports hub in Boston?. They've been advertising this Mizzou game heavily with ads running every hour. Sometimes it seems even more frequent than that. Then on the Zolak and Bertrand show this morning they spent quite some time bashing McGuirk and the program in general. Basically saying that whoever is in charge of UMass football needs to go.

Sounds about right... they broadcast the Patriots, Celtics and Bruins games and constantly rip on the franchises and players. Taking UMass advertising money and then slamming the team/school is pretty much par for the course when it comes to Sports Radio.
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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by photoman » Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:52 pm

There is an old adage about negative publicity being better than no publicity. I'm not sure if that's true in this case.

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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by LS71 » Thu Oct 10, 2024 5:05 pm

dennisdent wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:52 am
Floyd wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:22 am The only thing that makes any sense is the team has to get better first. Spend the money on coaches, increase the talent, and win games. Then money starts flowing in. No sense adding seats when the place is rarely close to full, or adding nice bathrooms. People aren't coming because the team has been bad, not because the bathrooms suck. All the infrastructure is nice but if they aren't good, what's the point? Start with building the program leadership on the field to be top notch and if that doesn't work, it probably never will.
Cal did it with hoop, he had a high school gym and no support but could sell ice to an Eskimo. That's what we need, a recruiting master
This! The quality of the product on the field stinks. I remember going to the 2007 Villanova game that was almost a sellout, which went into, I think, four overtimes. My buddy, who didn't go to many games, turned to me and said how good UMass football looked. We have gone back to games, and he has turned to me and said how bad UMass football looks now. Guess what, we have stopped going to games and I can't get anyone to go with me because they don't want to watch bad football anymore. UMass could have a fancy new stadium, and no one will go watch this shitty football team make mistakes all game. The program is funded at near top of the G5 level for the MAC/SBC/CUSA. No Drama Bamford needs to sack up and hire a football coach who wants to WIN! Brown has passed his expiration date as a head football coach.
Who wants to spend $45 (What’s that 3 months of ESPN+?) to sit on cold metal bleacher seats to watch UMass get spanked? Add to that, $10/20 to park, plus food that’s nothing special and a very long walk to the bathroom. Thankfully, it’s not supposed to snow. Cuz if it did, you’d have to clear the snow off your seat yourself in order to sit on a cold, wet metal bleacher seat with no back.

I don’t know what comes first, an improving product on the field or improved creature comforts, but something’s got to give before I return for a football game.

My living room is more comfortable, the food is better and the bathroom is clean, warm and the walk to it is a lot shorter. And….I can pause the game while I use it.
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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by LS71 » Thu Oct 10, 2024 5:08 pm

Steve81 wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 2:14 pm Image
Somebody needs to learn how to spell! :roll: :lol: :lol:
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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

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^Welcome the Junkyard..." Grammar and spelling not strong with this one. :lol:

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Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Thu Oct 10, 2024 6:53 pm

AI generated images are terrible.
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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by TruBluMaroon » Thu Oct 10, 2024 7:05 pm

dennisdent wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 6:34 pm ^Welcome the Junkyard..." Grammar and spelling not strong with this one. :lol:
My student ID (Class of ‘80 : issued 1976) had
“ Massachumsetts” on it! And we had to keep it for all four (4) years….
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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by vanmeter » Thu Oct 10, 2024 7:05 pm

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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by Floyd » Thu Oct 10, 2024 7:22 pm

eldonabe wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 12:10 pm
Floyd wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:22 am The only thing that makes any sense is the team has to get better first. Spend the money on coaches, increase the talent, and win games. Then money starts flowing in. No sense adding seats when the place is rarely close to full, or adding nice bathrooms. People aren't coming because the team has been bad, not because the bathrooms suck. All the infrastructure is nice but if they aren't good, what's the point? Start with building the program leadership on the field to be top notch and if that doesn't work, it probably never will.
Cal did it with hoop, he had a high school gym and no support, but could sell ice to an Eskimo. That's what we need, a recruiting master


Cal was a looong time ago and the landscape looks nothing like it is now - and it will look that much more different in the next 12 - 24 months.

This is just a different version of kicking the can down the road. Even if you could get some players decent enough to win enough, that takes 3-4 years minimum, and THEN you think about the stadium? It will be in the 30's before a Stadium is opened.

I don't even know if Nick Saban could come here today and fix this in 3-4 years without proper infrastructure (stadium).




I am not disagreeing with you Floyd, you are right. The problem is all of the above and the biggest hurdle - MONEY.

Money on Coaches
Money on Players
Money on Facilities

Umass has a rich history of being Cheap.... the concept of spending the kind of money they need to spend is quite foreign.


They have spent a boat load on Frank. The jury is till out, but I would not call that a success yet, and I am not overly confident that they will be much better than they were last year going forward either.
I'm not a big fan of the " build it all, then we'll be good" philosophy. Everything starts with the product on the field. Make the commitment to build the best staff ( I have to say I am a Don Brown fan, but I think that his best years are in the rearview). Spending money on the best staff would still be less than a new stadium. Winning teams create the excitement, excitement brings in the fans, the fans bring in money. I don't care if my Cal comparison was 30 yrs ago or 3 yrs ago, the philosophy is still the same. Now, people don't go except mostly diehard football people. Start winning, it becomes an event, and people go to games that don't know what a 1st down is because it's exciting and the place to be. Get noticed, get on the news, and people from Boston start coming out, the money flows. Now you got momentum for the stadium, upgrades etc. And if it does fail, at least you didn't spend all that money first on stadium etc only to become an empty relic on campus.

The people making the decisions on the leadership of the program need to be a serious group of knowledgeable people with experience in building winning programs, not gamble hires like Molnar & Bell.

People just want to see good, competitive football teams and they'll come out. It's a great way to spend fall afternoons outside enjoying the day. No reason a large university like UMass can't build a good product to put on the field. It's a shame how long this program has been down
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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by eldonabe » Thu Oct 10, 2024 9:05 pm

Floyd, times have changed. It is about money and bling and exposure. Umass has none of those things.

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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by harbo » Thu Oct 10, 2024 10:42 pm

dennisdent wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 6:34 pm ^Welcome the Junkyard..." Grammar and spelling not strong with this one. :lol:
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As a chant, it doesn't flow very well :(

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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by stevemaz » Fri Oct 11, 2024 5:28 am

Floyd wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:22 am The only thing that makes any sense is the team has to get better first. Spend the money on coaches, increase the talent, and win games. Then money starts flowing in. No sense adding seats when the place is rarely close to full, or adding nice bathrooms. People aren't coming because the team has been bad, not because the bathrooms suck. All the infrastructure is nice but if they aren't good, what's the point? Start with building the program leadership on the field to be top notch and if that doesn't work, it probably never will.
Cal did it with hoop, he had a high school gym and no support, but could sell ice to an Eskimo. That's what we need, a recruiting master
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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by stevemaz » Fri Oct 11, 2024 5:32 am

My first thought is that we may be the greatest 1-5 team in college football history. I would not be surprised at all if we go on a couple of long drives in the first half and shorten the game like we have done all season. Second half I expect Mizzou to pull away but you never know about dumb turnovers happening. We can all agree if there is any team due for an amazing day it is UMASS..I hope they have a set of goalposts ready to replace the current ones..

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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by photoman » Fri Oct 11, 2024 6:36 am

stevemaz wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 5:32 am My first thought is that we may be the greatest 1-5 team in college football history. I would not be surprised at all if we go on a couple of long drives in the first half and shorten the game like we have done all season. Second half I expect Mizzou to pull away but you never know about dumb turnovers happening. We can all agree if there is any team due for an amazing day it is UMASS..I hope they have a set of goalposts ready to replace the current ones..
Thank goodness we have the bye week to locate a set of replacement goal posts! 😂

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Re: 2024 Game 7: Mizzou

Post by Juice Stand » Fri Oct 11, 2024 7:14 am

LS71 wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 5:05 pm I don’t know what comes first, an improving product on the field or improved creature comforts, but something’s got to give before I return for a football game.
This, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with the program. It's not just the coaches, it's not just the quality of players we attract, it's not just the game day experience and the junk yard that is McGuirk. It's all of it. You don't get to be the worst program in the country for a dozen years by having one or two issues. It's literally everything, top to bottom. None of it is good. How do you fix it? I don't know, but I sure am excited for this upcoming basketball season!

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