2026 Season

[eldonabe]

The Globe article is out. Decide to pay the $1 for 26 weeks but when doing so, they said I had an account and had to pay$$.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/ ... newsletter

I swear I am not a Globe Writer.... but that sure looks like a sampling of my work here.

Make sure to See reader comments at end of article.

I am not a subscriber to that wrag.... I assume the comments are brutal?

[DrG]

It was actually a reasonably fair story, unlike the gratuitous shots Shaughnessy takes. It was written by a news reporter, not sports.

[InnervisionsUMASS]

It was actually a reasonably fair story, unlike the gratuitous shots Shaughnessy takes. It was written by a news reporter, not sports.

This is a major point. Good to see the Globe allow someone else to do this rather than Shank "I hate Cal" Shaughnessy or Bob "I couldn't get into UMass" Hoeler write it.

[JoleonLescottsHair]

Time will tell if moving to the MAC for basketball was a good deal.

It wasn’t.

…Cue Innervisions writing “it was the correct move.”

Cue @D_U_N with his "logic" #Dumb_User_Name

Seems things are trending a bit heavy toward my observations (“logic”) these days. By comparison, you have anything remotely clever to share, or just sputtering and effortlessly lying per usual?

[Jack]

I also pay $1 a month for my glob subscription. It's barely worth that. I haven't bothered to read the UMass Football article. But it has been a horrible & disappointing season and there isn't much else to say. Hoping for a win against BG. In 10 days the season will be over and Thorr will be in place as SDAD and CAO. Thorr has presumably been tasked with making a comprehensive assessment, recommendations for immediate improvement and a budget for achieving same.

[Floyd]

Has anybody been doing that up to this point or no?

[InnervisionsUMASS]

Has anybody been doing that up to this point or no?

Just the keyboard warriors here.

[Quann]

I can’t be bothered to hear a whiny purple haired globe snob whine about UMass football when the CEO of this state has flushed more than a billion $ of taxpayer money down the toilet to outside invaders. UMass football $ is a drop in the Quabbin compared to the real waste and corruption in this state.

[bottom line]

Plus 1

[stevemaz]

I can’t be bothered to hear a whiny purple haired globe snob whine about UMass football when the CEO of this state has flushed more than a billion $ of taxpayer money down the toilet to outside invaders. UMass football $ is a drop in the Quabbin compared to the real waste and corruption in this state.

PREACH!!!

[eldonabe]

I can’t be bothered to hear a whiny purple haired globe snob whine about UMass football when the CEO of this state has flushed more than a billion $ of taxpayer money down the toilet to outside invaders. UMass football $ is a drop in the Quabbin compared to the real waste and corruption in this state.

Unfortunately Amherst (Greater Amherst area in general) is a microcosm of the people who make those decisions in this state (the CEO in this case) - which goes back to my point about this area code not having the correct intestinal constitution for big-boy football.

FBS football is just not a priority here (in the North East and in MA specifically) and never will be. However, $300M towards a Women's Pro Soccer venue is far more important (and in the correct area code).

[PintOGuinness]

I can’t be bothered to hear a whiny purple haired globe snob whine about UMass football when the CEO of this state has flushed more than a billion $ of taxpayer money down the toilet to outside invaders. UMass football $ is a drop in the Quabbin compared to the real waste and corruption in this state.

I had no idea we were paying off the Klingons!

Seriously though, hard to take issue with this article, there's a lot of truth there. Stuff that's hashed out on this board daily.

[Steve81]

I can’t be bothered to hear a whiny purple haired globe snob whine about UMass football when the CEO of this state has flushed more than a billion $ of taxpayer money down the toilet to outside invaders. UMass football $ is a drop in the Quabbin compared to the real waste and corruption in this state.

Unfortunately Amherst (Greater Amherst area in general) is a microcosm of the people who make those decisions in this state (the CEO in this case) - which goes back to my point about this area code not having the correct intestinal constitution for big-boy football.

FBS football is just not a priority here (in the North East and in MA specifically) and never will be. However, $300M towards a Women's Pro Soccer venue is far more important (and in the correct area code).

This is way the congressional map should lump Amherst and Northampton with Springfield and allow a house of representive federal district in the northern tier, which is not as liberal. Our state rep is independent.

[Jack]

I can’t be bothered to hear a whiny purple haired globe snob whine about UMass football when the CEO of this state has flushed more than a billion $ of taxpayer money down the toilet to outside invaders. UMass football $ is a drop in the Quabbin compared to the real waste and corruption in this state.

Plus 2 !!!!

[tdmass]

I believe that the Flagship State School in Massachusetts gets less respect from the state and local government and hence the people than any state in the country! PS: It blows my mind that in 162 years of being THE State University, we've never had a Governor.