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Stats, you just gave me an idea. Our next acquisition will be Amherst College.

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Massachusetts native Samya Stumo, 24, was a passenger on the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. Stumo grew up in Sheffield and graduated from UMass Amherst in 2015.

^ Truly tragic what happened. RIP.

Sam the Minuteman (and the other A10 Mascots) on the Tonight Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQXYEaSbnQ

Sam rocking the Camby jersey and doing the Carlton Banks dance after his dunk. Well done.

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Jay Lance
9 hours ago

UMass got robbed lol

Quann wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:09 pm Sam rocking the Camby jersey and doing the Carlton Banks dance after his dunk. Well done.

I hope Alfonso Ribeiro doesn't try to sue the school!

Beef History: Coach Cal vs. Calgoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BakDPX9Kn_o

I was watching a replay of the 1986 MLB playoffs on the ECL channel. Game 7 in the fourth inning, just after Jim Rice hits a homer, there is a kid sitting in the second row that holds up a UMASS sign. He’s sitting right behind the guy wearing glasses and a green jacket. Waddayouknow!

Sheck wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:19 pm Beef History: Coach Cal vs. Calgoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BakDPX9Kn_o

I've been looking for this FOR YEARS... thank you for posting this video!!!!

Story about Will McDonough's boy Terry who attended UMass in the 80s - brief reference to UMass:

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2641 ... ells-story

Couple of interesting passages:

The police transported McDonough, still 17, to the Plymouth House of Correction, where he was strip-searched and put in a cell. Terry suddenly felt a sense of relief behind bars, he said, "because I didn't want to be in that town anymore." Hingham's golden boy had become its Hester Prynne. Two nights later, the phone rang in the McDonough house, and the man on the other end asked Sister Mary Martina if her brother was home. "It's Jimmy," the nun told Will. James "Whitey" Bulger. According to Will, Whitey told him, "I want to let you know that nobody's going to mess with your kid.

As a UMass student in 1987, he had checked himself out of school and into a hospital after he experienced panic attacks, shortness of breath, muscle twitches and ringing in his ears, and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The following year, he was arrested over the July Fourth holiday in Atlantic City, New Jersey, after getting drunk, stealing pizza on the boardwalk and wrestling with a cop who had been sitting in an unmarked car. Terry landed in jail for a night before entering a 30-day rehab program in Norwood, Massachusetts.

One anectode - I remember him from an intramural softball game. He was on the team my team was playing against and he was a big time douchebag - yelling at the umps, trash talking our team, etc. One of my teammates was from Hingham, said "He's always been a dick, but I guess that's what happens when you have a famous dad". I asked who his dad was, he replied "Will McDonough".

Good to see he's made something of himself and is setting a good example.

I can only imagine if Joe Cullen was the head coach (rumored before Bell) and he hired Terry McDonough.

Sort of a rehash of previous articles regarding an anticipated decline of the number of potential future college students with an emphasis on Hampshire College and the UMASS system (with a few surprisingly positive comments by the author re UMass). The reader comments may provide a laugh or two.
https://www.boston.com/news/education/2 ... ent-crisis

I think state schools (flaship campuses, smaller satellite campuses and other state universities) are in the best spot going forward. Still the greatest bang for your buck when it comes to going to college education and the gap is getting larger. Unless you get a scholarship or are going to an Ivy League school, I think it's insane to enroll in a private school for 70K-100K per year. Those are the schools that will be hurt most by the ridiculous escalation of tuition over the last 20 years. I wholly blame the government backed student loans for creating this absolute mess. Guaranteeing a loan anywhere from 100K-300K to an 18 year old with no collateral is beyond absurd. These schools know that kids are on the hook to pay back everything and it is fully backed by Uncle Sam. End guaranteed student loans and it will have a huge effect on tuition costs.