OT: Bill Connelly Article on UMass

[whaler11]

UConn was a better team.

Sure thing.

 

[Waquoit]

Sure thing.

What, they needed to beat them 3 times in the same season to make that claim?

 

[Waquoit]

I looked it up and actually we were better than I remembered. That was the year we made the I-AA playoffs for the first time and won a playoff game before losing by 22 to Georgia Southern in the second round. UMass won 4 playoff games including the I-AA NC game against Georgia Southern.

I actually was following this closely that year. No doubt Southern took UMass lightly because they had lost twice to a team they smoked.

 

[whaler11]

What, they needed to beat them 3 times in the same season to make that claim?

They needed to be better than UMass to make the claim. I was at both games. They were not better.

 

[Waquoit]

They needed to be better than UMass to make the claim. I was at both games. They were not better.

One win could be a fluke, backing it up with an away win, less so. I have a friend like you. Knee-jerk contradictory 24/7. It gets boring and predictable.

 

[whaler11]

One win could be a fluke, backing it up with an away win, less so. I have a friend like you. Knee-jerk contradictory 24/7. It gets boring and predictable.

Sorry that’s not how sports work. There is a ton of variance in any given game, couple of games, series of games.

They won the games but weren’t the better team.

Funny you used the word fluke. The game at Amherst was the flukiest win since at least 1994. Diaco beating Houston wasn’t even close to what happened at UMass.

 

[History Geek]

Someone please refresh my memory. Why did we play UMass home and home in 1998?

 

[DrG]

^ I believe it was a replacement game after BU dropped football in 1997 and left a void in the following year's schedule.

 

[BRG 1]

The $$$$ in College Football is very very good, even for top D-1 programs' top assistants (6 figures). But at a certain level, at a later time of life, familiarity and comfort is important.
Hence Phil Estes being at Brown 20 years. Mark Whipple going back to the familiar after bouncing around. While the perks are good, moving around can be exhausting for the families.