Army and Thanksgiving week

[dennisdent]

Never punted until this year and has gotten better. Why is he punting? AJ bolted. 74 punts is also the tops. Like I said the scheme to punt in many forms hasn’t been good for him. He is not good at the roll outs. Much better at the “standard” punting. He has been wildly inconsistent. Thought he was on track after the first three or so games then UConn happened.

He's worse then 80 D3 kickers. No excuse for an FBS team to have a punter this bad (especially the one that punts the most). AJ isn't even kicking this season in college. They could have found another punter with the new transfer rules. This is another failure for this season, which hopefully will get fixed. He's had a few good punts but 90% bad.

The Mass Maritime punter averaged 42 yards a kick...The MIT punter was better...

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/d3/ ... dual/17/p2

I wasn’t saying he was good. I was saying for a guy who never punted he was getting better. AJ would have been better. There is no other Pinter on our roster. CJ isn’t even listed as a punter. He’s listed as a kicker. I also was pointing out he gets good distance when not doing the roll out kick, which is about half the time if not more.

Where did I write that I said that you said he was good...He isn't good, he's really bad. How do we know AJ would be better if he can't even start at Ball State this season (the Ball State punter is ranked at 64 while the bottom, CJ is 82) . He got "good distance" on a few kicks, nowhere near enough for the number of times he punted this season. I blame the coaches, not him. What does how he is listed have to do with anything??? He has seven kicks over 50+ this season out of 74, 10%...

[InnervisionsUMASS]

Weather seems to be improving... it had been saying rain but now that seems to be changing, and it might hit 50. Still going to be a cold tailgate...

I may not make it to tailgate and may have extra tix. I’ll let you know.

Awesome, thanks!

[TheInsider]

It's trending towards a nice day... I think UMass wins this one.. I know Army just beat up UConn but I think UConn were smelling their own farts a little bit after the Liberty win.

[tdmass]

Army runs the wishbone/three back attack and DB knows how to prepare for this (assignment football he calls it). Maybe UConn isn't as well versed in defending it cuz Army had ZERO yards passing and still scored 34 points!

[minutefanjsf]

He's worse then 80 D3 kickers. No excuse for an FBS team to have a punter this bad (especially the one that punts the most). AJ isn't even kicking this season in college. They could have found another punter with the new transfer rules. This is another failure for this season, which hopefully will get fixed. He's had a few good punts but 90% bad.

The Mass Maritime punter averaged 42 yards a kick...The MIT punter was better...

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/d3/ ... dual/17/p2

I wasn’t saying he was good. I was saying for a guy who never punted he was getting better. AJ would have been better. There is no other Pinter on our roster. CJ isn’t even listed as a punter. He’s listed as a kicker. I also was pointing out he gets good distance when not doing the roll out kick, which is about half the time if not more.

Where did I write that I said that you said he was good...He isn't good, he's really bad. How do we know AJ would be better if he can't even start at Ball State this season (the Ball State punter is ranked at 64 while the bottom, CJ is 82) . He got "good distance" on a few kicks, nowhere near enough for the number of times he punted this season. I blame the coaches, not him. What does how he is listed have to do with anything??? He has seven kicks over 50+ this season out of 74, 10%...

You didn’t and I didn’t say you did. I said I wasn’t saying he was good to clarify my point. Not even listing him as a punter is a clear statement he isn’t a punter, no? I wasn’t blaming him either. My point was he stepped into and filled a spot the coaches left empty and has gotten better. And, for what it’s worth, I looked up the stats for the best punter in ncaa. When he was a first year guy he averaged 32 and had a long of 52. Now he is averaging 48 with a long of 74. I think they hoped AJ stayed and developed like that guy. He likely would have been better as a first year than that guy. We have had many great punters at UMass and Replacing George George was a big hole to fill.

[dennisdent]

I wasn’t saying he was good. I was saying for a guy who never punted he was getting better. AJ would have been better. There is no other Pinter on our roster. CJ isn’t even listed as a punter. He’s listed as a kicker. I also was pointing out he gets good distance when not doing the roll out kick, which is about half the time if not more.

Where did I write that I said that you said he was good...He isn't good, he's really bad. How do we know AJ would be better if he can't even start at Ball State this season (the Ball State punter is ranked at 64 while the bottom, CJ is 82) . He got "good distance" on a few kicks, nowhere near enough for the number of times he punted this season. I blame the coaches, not him. What does how he is listed have to do with anything??? He has seven kicks over 50+ this season out of 74, 10%...

You didn’t and I didn’t say you did. I said I wasn’t saying he was good to clarify my point. Not even listing him as a punter is a clear statement he isn’t a punter, no? I wasn’t blaming him either. My point was he stepped into and filled a spot the coaches left empty and has gotten better. And, for what it’s worth, I looked up the stats for the best punter in ncaa. When he was a first year guy he averaged 32 and had a long of 52. Now he is averaging 48 with a long of 74. I think they hoped AJ stayed and developed like that guy. He likely would have been better as a first year than that guy. We have had many great punters at UMass and Replacing George George was a big hole to fill.

You know we're football Sickos when we are discussing the worse punter on the worst team in FBS. I think we can agree on that! I miss the days when we could discuss playing Delaware and others for conference championships and the chance to play for a national championship. Not saying that UMass should drop down right now but ten years of being this bad has been really, really rough.

Not just the losing but the really bad quality of the football. That being said, Brown is an excellent head coach and he was able to take a Northeastern program without any support and turn it into a winner within a couple of seasons. I will be patient to watch this play out for the next couple of seasons.

[photoman]

Might need two tickets for Army Saturday. Anyone happen to have a pair for sale?..and if so, not even sure they'd be electronically transferrable. Will pay face value. thx. Happy Thanksgiving!

[inthescoop]

Might need two tickets for Army Saturday. Anyone happen to have a pair for sale?..and if so, not even sure they'd be electronically transferrable. Will pay face value. thx. Happy Thanksgiving!

Is the game sold out?

[TruBluMaroon]

^ Highly doubt it…..not speaking for him, but just probably wants to help a brother UMHoopster who isn’t going (probably a high number) rather than pay UM….

[minutefanjsf]

Might need two tickets for Army Saturday. Anyone happen to have a pair for sale?..and if so, not even sure they'd be electronically transferrable. Will pay face value. thx. Happy Thanksgiving!

I likely have two tickets. I will know for sure tomorrow. I can transfer via text or email.

[photoman]

Might need two tickets for Army Saturday. Anyone happen to have a pair for sale?..and if so, not even sure they'd be electronically transferrable. Will pay face value. thx. Happy Thanksgiving!

I likely have two tickets. I will know for sure tomorrow. I can transfer via text or email.

Thanks. lmk. PM or you can email andy at hellerphoto dot com

[minutefanjsf]

Might need two tickets for Army Saturday. Anyone happen to have a pair for sale?..and if so, not even sure they'd be electronically transferrable. Will pay face value. thx. Happy Thanksgiving!

I likely have two tickets. I will know for sure tomorrow. I can transfer via text or email.

Thanks. lmk. PM or you can email andy at hellerphoto dot com

Once I know I will let you know.

[Camby4Life]

What a great first drive to open up this final game. They even scored despite Casula going with gimmick plays on 1st and 2nd goal.

[TruBluMaroon]

Shout out to my wife, “ They can defend our country, but not UMASS”

[LouMass]

Ground and pound, not sure why Casula try’s these gimmicks. If simple is working, stick with it.