State of the Progam

[Floyd]

Boy, for a school with such a renowned Sports Management program, the management of the sports programs at UMass looks to be a mess. From the email marketing issues that CalMass describes, to the football issues with Senior Day, finding a long term coach, and now Collective issues, maybe people are right about looking at who's running the show.

[eldonabe]

https://www.gazettenet.com/UMass-footba ... t-58261613

FIRE

THE

FUCKING

ATHLETIC DIRECTOR


Jesus H... how many more embarrassments are needed before we get there?

[eldonabe]

https://www.gazettenet.com/UMass-footba ... t-58261613

The worst part of the "communication" that went out after the fact was calling what happened a "miscommunication"....

NO RYAN - there was no miscommunication - YOU FUCKED UP, and once again, you are making excuses. Take some fucking accountability for your dumb decision that was originally communicated pretty fucking clearly.

FIRE HIM

[inthescoop]

https://www.gazettenet.com/UMass-footba ... t-58261613

FIRE

THE

FUCKING

ATHLETIC DIRECTOR


Jesus H... how many more embarrassments are needed before we get there?

Like I said before, start a petition. The amount of signatures on there will speak volumes.

[eldonabe]

https://www.gazettenet.com/UMass-footba ... t-58261613

FIRE

THE

FUCKING

ATHLETIC DIRECTOR


Jesus H... how many more embarrassments are needed before we get there?

Like I said before, start a petition. The amount of signatures on there will speak volumes.

Noble gesture, but this Administration could give two shits about those things. Like just about EVERYTHIG with this school - it will cost them too much to fire him - the cost to fire, and the cost to hire a truly qualified AD which would be much more expensive than RB is at the moment. Umass will simply NOT spend the resources needed to be serious about even trying to be an FBS school - which is why we sit in the purgatory we sit in now.

[dennisdent]

https://dailycollegian.com/2024/12/umas ... n-tuesday/

[Juice Stand]

https://dailycollegian.com/2024/12/umas ... n-tuesday/

Midnight Ride claims an “Internal NIL Person” will be hired in its place, but they will lack the same resources the previous collective held.

One thing Bamford supposedly is good at is fundraising, so hopefully this is in his wheelhouse. Directing athletics is not, but raising money might be. I have no idea what it means that the in-house NIL collective will have less resources. The article says that "UMass will soon allocate $1-2 [million] for NIL funding to football and basketball". That sounds like MORE resources, not less.

Seriously, this whole article reads like ridiculous pettiness from Cory, the leader of MRC. I was hoping that reading the article would change my mind on Cory, but it did the opposite. What an entitled baby.

According to Midnight Ride, the athletic department only wanted to support those who “sing and dance” to the university’s tune.

That's snarky as hell and incredibly naive. Why would you fight against the university when you're trying to run a collective. Work with them, not against them.

UMass had a preferred business partner for the collective, Learfield, and Midnight Ride refused to do business with it.

Come on Cory, get your head out of your ass.

“Our inability to secure consistent investment stems from UMass’s refusal to truly embrace us until we paid [its] preferred business partner, Learfield,” the email said. “We weren’t willing to pay an organization $17 [thousand per] year when [its] entire pitch is built around urinal advertisements and a few spots on mediums where nobody is.”

Snark snark snark. This guy sucks.

Midnight Ride also claims to have had difficulty finding investors, attributing that to the contempt that many alumni feel toward UMass’ athletic department.

Not me. I didn't give to the MRC because of Cory, specifically because of his tone on social media. It sounds to me like Cory lives in the Twitter echo chamber bubble and not in the real world.

[dennisdent]

Juice Stand, fully agree with your comments and Corey comes across as he did online, toxic, all about me, and can I say a narcissist. Glad he stepped forward at the time to start the collective, but sometimes wonder now if he did if mostly for his own ego and less about UMass football...

Hopefully he disappears and is never heard from again in regards to UMass football.

[umasscollective]

We have a Member Meeting Tuesday 12/10 at 7pm and we will address any MRC and Football related questions then.

[umassbaseball]

AJ Azuakolam Jr (Defensive Back - Dorchester, MA), Jahmale Clark (Defensive Back - Dayton, OH), Zach Lawrence (QB - Charlotte, NC), and Dajoure Hollingsworth (RB - Erie, PA) have all signed with UMass this morning. 3 commits (Jax Markovich, Connor Mathews, and Devon St. Clair) have not signed during this period

[jjmc85]

Midnight Ride also claims to have had difficulty finding investors, attributing that to the contempt that many alumni feel toward UMass’ athletic department.

Not me. I didn't give to the MRC because of Cory, specifically because of his tone on social media.

I am in the same boat as you, Juice.

I don’t know the full story, but I wonder how many other potential donors are in our boat and if it’s significant I wonder if that might be part of the reason the University chose to go in a different direction.

[Quann]

https://www.gazettenet.com/UMass-footba ... t-58261613

The worst part of the "communication" that went out after the fact was calling what happened a "miscommunication"....

NO RYAN - there was no miscommunication - YOU FUCKED UP, and once again, you are making excuses. Take some fucking accountability for your dumb decision that was originally communicated pretty fucking clearly.

FIRE HIM

Bamford is over his skis with this job. Stupid things happening like them screwing up senior day or not even figuring out how to award a fucking trophy just speaks to him as a leader. He's not one. You don't need a marketing plan to pick up the phone and talk to the MRC and the UConn AD to say hey "Our collective made a cool trophy, want to make this the official trophy of our series?" Then you send a tweet or official letter release about it once everyone agrees. There's your marketing plan you dope! Hopefully this head coaching hire works out.

[69MG]

State of the program - in one word, BETTER!

[Worcester_To_Amherst]

Does anyone know if the 2 million in 2025 and 3 million in 2026 is just for football or the entire athletic department? If we go from low 6 figures to 2 million in one year for football NIL, that’s a heck of a commitment.

[InnervisionsUMASS]

Does anyone know if the 2 million in 2025 and 3 million in 2026 is just for football or the entire athletic department? If we go from low 6 figures to 2 million in one year for football NIL, that’s a heck of a commitment.

I keep getting conflicting details, but most point to that being a combined figure between football and basketball. The % breakdown... no idea, but I would have to suspect it is more in favor of football simply due to the roster sizes.

I would LOVE for it to be Football only and for bball to keep doing what is is doing, but who the hell knows. It would be nice if we can, at some point, get the Athletic Department to lay out how they plan to handle this in-house. I think a lot of people will want to better understand how to direct their donations to the department and know where their $ is actually going.