2025 Season

[minutefanjsf]

If true, incredibly shortsighted and dumb.

Edit-I checked the temple game and found general public tickets for $25 with youth tickets being $17. I also found more expensive tickets for $45. This is much different than how I interpreted the post which was that it was $50 to get in. Thankfully that’s not the case- at least not for game 1 which makes me doubt it would be the case for any game.

I checked tickets for the Buffalo game, where I found the price I mentioned.

I just checked Buffalo and the first ticket I tried-Section 18, Row N, seat 15 is listed as $30 for general public, $27 for youth. So maybe try again?

The tickets that are $45 for single game are essentially season ticket sections (5,6, 7) or the equivalent on the visiting side. ST are a little less than $35 per game. This could/should incentivize more ST sales, most likely for next season, so long as they don’t diminish the benefit to STH, which they have done as recently as three years ago when ST prices jumped to the current rates and single game day seats were offered at equal or lower prices in the same sections. I don’t see ST going down, hoping they don’t jump again next year.

[InnervisionsUMASS]

STH should have their Season Tickets in their accounts now... as previously mentioned, that includes parking passes. Please, for the love of all things holy, download everything ahead of time so we can all avoid any issues getting into the parking lots on game day.

[minutefanjsf]

STH should have their Season Tickets in their accounts now... as previously mentioned, that includes parking passes. Please, for the love of all things holy, download everything ahead of time so we can all avoid any issues getting into the parking lots on game day.

Yes! Second this! Please, please, please. I have downloaded and doled out to those who arrive separately. The parking passes void themselves in the wallet using the all in for games where I’ve sent a pass. Sure hope the game day management is ready for this new system. It worked great at Penn State.

[minutefanjsf]

STH should have their Season Tickets in their accounts now... as previously mentioned, that includes parking passes. Please, for the love of all things holy, download everything ahead of time so we can all avoid any issues getting into the parking lots on game day.

Yes! Second this! Please, please, please. I have downloaded and doled out to those who arrive separately. The parking passes void themselves in the wallet using the all in for games where I’ve sent a pass. Sure hope the game day management is ready for this new system. It worked great at Penn State.

My fear is they are going to try to micromanage the parking like they attempted a couple of seasons ago where they tried to instruct us as we pulled into the lots which spaces to pull into. I hope not. We couldn’t donate enough to stay in our section, but will still be in lot 11. My guess is they will force people who donated at the maroon level but prefer the white areas to go into the maroon area, too.

[Steve81]

Will arrive earlier, as anticipate a learning curve with people.

[DeeDeeBee]

I really hope they send all eligible a physical parking tag that is easily seen by parking attendants rather than trying to see a cell phone screen!

[Steve81]

I really hope they send all eligible a physical parking tag that is easily seen by parking attendants rather than trying to see a cell phone screen!

Well liking the idea, doubt it, but perhaps they will have separate lines for Lot 11 for Maroon and White.

[InnervisionsUMASS]

Hopefully the police won't issue tickets for handheld device usage as people are showing their passes to park.

[minutefanjsf]

I really hope they send all eligible a physical parking tag that is easily seen by parking attendants rather than trying to see a cell phone screen!

Well liking the idea, doubt it, but perhaps they will have separate lines for Lot 11 for Maroon and White.

They have had this for the last couple of years. They haven’t enforced the separation, though. I was a maroon lot person until the price increase this year. Everyone will have to stop and have their phone scanned I assume. It’s a ticket. That is how they do it at other schools I’ve been to. (Penn State, etc.)

[mew3782]

Hello everyone -

This will be the first time since UMass rose to FBS where its head coach is of the specification I have long-requested, which is: a recent former FCS head coach who had success.

-Molnar, no (was just a coordinator)
-Bell, no (same)
-Whipple, no (too old/too far removed from being HC)
-Brown, no (defensive mirror-image to Whipple)

Given this, and a huge overall dearth of talent in the MAC (even more permanent and severe than pre-NIL and pre-transfer ease), there is no reason the program can't go 6-6 this year.

Not to get ahead of myself, but the problem will be that there is no path to ever win more than that consistently, because the team will have zero ability to retain relatively talented players/coaches when it starts to have relatively successful seasons. The only way forward (which will be basically impossible) is that you hire a new "Coach Joe" every 3 years, that he is successful, and that it leads the program to have pretty good seasons every 2 out of 3 for the next ~15 years until it develops some cache that can outlive a failed hire or two.

I've been giving this more thought. I hadn't appreciated that Coach Joe hasn't been an HC for seven years; I would have guessed he left Maine, like, three years ago, not seven. I think, in the current environment, seven years might as well be seventeen years, and so I'm no longer so sure he fits the archetype of "recent HC". We will see - still hoping for the best, but now I am thinking more like 4 wins like many of you guys are.

[photoman]

I've been giving this more thought. I hadn't appreciated that Coach Joe hasn't been an HC for seven years; I would have guessed he left Maine, like, three years ago, not seven. I think, in the current environment, seven years might as well be seventeen years, and so I'm no longer so sure he fits the archetype of "recent HC". We will see - still hoping for the best, but now I am thinking more like 4 wins like many of you guys are.

If he calls for a drop kick on our first FG attempt you know we're in trouble! lol

[Floyd]

What about an onside kick on the first kickoff?

[TheInsider]

How about a timeout prior to the first kick-off

[ZooMass84]

Hello everyone -

This will be the first time since UMass rose to FBS where its head coach is of the specification I have long-requested, which is: a recent former FCS head coach who had success.

-Molnar, no (was just a coordinator)
-Bell, no (same)
-Whipple, no (too old/too far removed from being HC)
-Brown, no (defensive mirror-image to Whipple)

Given this, and a huge overall dearth of talent in the MAC (even more permanent and severe than pre-NIL and pre-transfer ease), there is no reason the program can't go 6-6 this year.

Not to get ahead of myself, but the problem will be that there is no path to ever win more than that consistently, because the team will have zero ability to retain relatively talented players/coaches when it starts to have relatively successful seasons. The only way forward (which will be basically impossible) is that you hire a new "Coach Joe" every 3 years, that he is successful, and that it leads the program to have pretty good seasons every 2 out of 3 for the next ~15 years until it develops some cache that can outlive a failed hire or two.

I've been giving this more thought. I hadn't appreciated that Coach Joe hasn't been an HC for seven years; I would have guessed he left Maine, like, three years ago, not seven. I think, in the current environment, seven years might as well be seventeen years, and so I'm no longer so sure he fits the archetype of "recent HC". We will see - still hoping for the best, but now I am thinking more like 4 wins like many of you guys are.

Mew, not to be a debbie downer but I would actually be thrilled at 2-10 or 3-9. Bryant and Kent State are the only 2 locks for me. Akron got shut out by Wyoming yesterday but i don't know what to expect. in a way, this season has a chance but I hate the fact we play P4's on the road in games 3 and 4. Season killers. I look at UConn's schedule and how the fuck do they schedule cupcakes years in advance and when they play them they are still cupcakes.

[ZooMass84]

Hello everyone -

This will be the first time since UMass rose to FBS where its head coach is of the specification I have long-requested, which is: a recent former FCS head coach who had success.

-Molnar, no (was just a coordinator)
-Bell, no (same)
-Whipple, no (too old/too far removed from being HC)
-Brown, no (defensive mirror-image to Whipple)

Given this, and a huge overall dearth of talent in the MAC (even more permanent and severe than pre-NIL and pre-transfer ease), there is no reason the program can't go 6-6 this year.

Not to get ahead of myself, but the problem will be that there is no path to ever win more than that consistently, because the team will have zero ability to retain relatively talented players/coaches when it starts to have relatively successful seasons. The only way forward (which will be basically impossible) is that you hire a new "Coach Joe" every 3 years, that he is successful, and that it leads the program to have pretty good seasons every 2 out of 3 for the next ~15 years until it develops some cache that can outlive a failed hire or two.

I've been giving this more thought. I hadn't appreciated that Coach Joe hasn't been an HC for seven years; I would have guessed he left Maine, like, three years ago, not seven. I think, in the current environment, seven years might as well be seventeen years, and so I'm no longer so sure he fits the archetype of "recent HC". We will see - still hoping for the best, but now I am thinking more like 4 wins like many of you guys are.

Yes, the Coach Joe every 3 years thing is unfortunately also a UMass thing. Let's think positive.