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Vuce said:
Molnar also took a brief shot at Temple and UConn, whose membership in the Big East he feels no longer carries the same cache in recruiting.
“I don’t know if you consider UConn and Temple to be BCS after next season,” Molnar said. “We certainly don’t.”

http://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/index.ssf/2013/02/highlights_for_umass_football.html

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I said this from the very beginning regarding UMASS stepping up into the next level. Play them and crush them every season. Don't even let them off the mat. Whenever the chance is there hang 50 or 60 on them and fill Foxboro with UCONN fans so that it's simply another home game.

Molnar provided some nice locker room fodder. He should pay the price big time........
 
Butch said:
Because you're a loser.
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Nah, Dan's on the right track here. UMass sports has badmouthed UConn long and loud for over 20 years to anyone who would listen. Why would you possibly want to help them out? Have some self respect. We sucked last year and still beat them by 5 touchdowns. Playing them once a decade is about right.
 
The game last year had to be an embarrassment for UMASS. They never crossed midfield and got past their 40 like once. They ran a reverse and Adams almost killed the kid who ended up with the ball. Men playing children........

Molnar must be borderline dumb to make that statement. Again, hit them with both barrels the next time we play.
 
When we need someone to fill an open spot on our schedule, schedule them and run up the score. We should give them a little respect, he did wear a red and black tie. He's trying to be big-time.
 
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Waquoit said:
Nah, Dan's on the right track here. UMass sports has badmouthed UConn long and loud for over 20 years to anyone who would listen. Why would you possibly want to help them out? Have some self respect. We sucked last year and still beat them by 5 touchdowns. Playing them once a decade is about right.
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exactly. and heres the deal. hes doing several things.
1) hes making sure that his work there goes noticed so he can move on to the next job, and being so close to the uconn staff believe me he sees a opening soon. over my dead body btw, i'll go down in a war before that happens.
2) we ran train on umass with a bad fball team(or year really...). it was a very rude awakening for umass to what big boy fball is going to be like becuase they dont even consider us to be big time.
3)we have yet to set up any type of series. if i'm umass im begging for a 2-1 fball rent razor rent but also h/h in all other sports. i actually think thats fair and a good idea long term. it really pumps a rival up and we can crush them in fball and bball and there lax and puck can help us build and its easy close travel games for soccer and basball and so on...

but, umass is just starting out as a mac team. in the new college football world, rpi/sos numbers are going to start to matter a bit. were stuck in the nbe so we need the best bump we cna get. also factor in what the nbe looks like so there is no reason championships are not the goal right away. so we may see umass being a nd fcs team rpi/sos wise for a few years still as they build and not want them on the schedule yet until they are a average mac team. it may make more sense for akron and wm to be on the schedule until like 2015-18 when umass cna win a few games and be a layup but not a fcs layup.
4) we just inked that longterm deal already and becuase warde doesn't want to announce things yet, the umass coach is mad as hes always looking fo things to exciite and create fanbase wise with his young program. so he takes a shot at uconn as a hint to ppl.

if the answer to this is any of these, or anything else, then i want a piece of that piece of .
 
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Waquoit said:
Nah, Dan's on the right track here. UMass sports has badmouthed UConn long and loud for over 20 years to anyone who would listen. Why would you possibly want to help them out? Have some self respect. We sucked last year and still beat them by 5 touchdowns. Playing them once a decade is about right.
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You hurt them by hurting them where it hurts the most - in the W/L column. We'd be have a winning record if we exclude our pre-1924 squads. The 1924 squad is historic for our program.
 
Butch said:
You hurt them by hurting them where it hurts the most - in the W/L column. We'd be have a winning record if we exclude our pre-1924 squads. The 1924 squad is historic for our program.
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I love it! Butchy, don't ever change, my friend!

Only you would be able to comment on the historic turning point of 1924 for UConn football... :)
 
or u can hurt them by carpet bombing them.
 
UConnDan97 said:
I love it! Butchy, don't ever change, my friend!

Only you would be able to comment on the historic turning point of 1924 for UConn football... :)
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It likely had 4 NFL players. Played a big part in bringing the NFL into New England. That's huge. It'll be a few centuries at least before we ever match Yale's total championships in football.

Rosters were much smaller back then. Same people played offense and defense. Coincidentally, 1924 is when Notre Dame won their first championship. The best members of that team who were playing professionally ended up forming their own team for one game and playing an NFL franchise in 1925 (the Pottsville Maroons, "disputed" NFL champions) and lost, letting people know the pro circuit just might be more talented than the college circuit. Knute Rockne was at the game. That was also a turning point for the NFL. People were stunned.
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_NFL_Championship_controversy

The "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame played for the Waterbury/Hartford Blues in 1925 for at least one game. All of them. The Hartford Blues joined the NFL for one season, 1926. One of our best players from the 1924 squad played for the Hartford Blues in 1926. Always makes me cringe when people say we have "no tradition". Even in our years in the BCS era we have a strong tradition. Does our latest recruiting class speak for itself? Our state's best players want to play for us now. The number of players we have drafted by the NFL over the last 5 years compared to other schools speaks for itself.

We also certainly do have a richer tradition than mighty UMass. And probably always will, unless UMass relocates to Boston. Connecticut and Massachusetts have been going at each other since the colonial days. That's how we got the Yale-Harvard rivalry. At least Yale and Harvard don't avoid playing each other.
 
Butch said:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrec...dley-120018;_ylt=AiF4rF7S6eJtFs32mRejuRlDPZB4

UMass's only 3 star recruit. Have to wonder what he was thinking.
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First time poster....UMass alum and fan....not trolling. Although I'm a UMass fan, I am foremost a sports fan and fully appreciate what UConn has done since the old Yankee conference. You guys made "right" decisions along the way while UMass balked. Fully understand that and now UMass is trying to catch up. With conference realignment as it is, this is probably not the best time to try to catch up

As far as this post, I'm not sure where you are getting that UMass has only one 3 star kid. 24/7 sports has them at 7....This is a very good class for a staff in their first year recruiting a FBS team.

I am 100% convinced that reviving the rivalry with UConn would be good for both schools and would go a long way to breathe life into interest for college sports in a predominately "pro sports" area.
 
I pretty much agree with all that. I still think your coach made a stupid comment for the press to quote. But, hey, that's his call and my guess he pays for it on the field. Not sure how it gets much worse than last season. The Minutemen don't get it past their own 30...........?
 
uconndogs said:
I pretty much agree with all that. I still think your coach made a stupid comment for the press to quote. But, hey, that's his call and my guess he pays for it on the field. Not sure how it gets much worse than last season. The Minutemen don't get it past their own 30...........?
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I was there and it was bad for sure. Our offense had the "deer in the headlight" thing going on all night. But remember, you played basically a 1AA team. The jump to 1A is not an easy one and takes time. I have to admit though, I was pretty proud of our defense that night. They gave up 23 points and held your running back under 100 yds. That was impressive considering they were on the field all night

As far as what Molnar said, I was at the signing event in Amherst and the quote was a response to a question concerning BCS conferences and the Big East. I agree, he could have answered the question generically and not singled out UConn and Temple. He's trying to establish his team in New England and I think he is trying to fire up rivalries.
 
You live with what you say. My guess is that the next time these programs play that quote is on a bulletin board in UCONN's locker room. If P is smart and gets the chance, Molnar will get to comment on what it feels like to have 50 or 60 hung on him by a non-BCS program.
 
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Hopefully P won't be the head coach the next time UConn plays UMass. To our UMass visitor, welcome, and I agree that the two should play annually. If UConn is going to play someone from the MAC annually, which has been the case since we moved up, it should undoubtedly be UMass. I'd make it always at Rentschler with alternating home games. Easier commute for both fan bases than going to the Razor every other year.
 
SAMCRO said:
Hopefully P won't be the head coach the next time UConn plays UMass. To our UMass visitor, welcome, and I agree that the two should play annually. If UConn is going to play someone from the MAC annually, which has been the case since we moved up, it should undoubtedly be UMass. I'd make it always at Rentschler with alternating home games. Easier commute for both fan bases than going to the Razor every other year.
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I would agree with that arrangement short term. When and if (I believe it's" when") UMass builds a competitive program, I think it will fire up our eastern Mass alum and I think it should then be a true home and home every year. I live in Stafford, so I'm all for your plan right now!!!!
 
Waquoit said:
Don't you guys need to get a true home first?
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Although things may change, the plan is to move 1-2 games back to Amherst starting in 2014 but to renew the contract with Gillette to keep the bigger games there long term. McGuirk, with the renovations starting in the spring, will be fine for MAC games as well as any FCS games they might want to schedule.
 
Husky25 said:
Umm...didn't the UMass Board of Regents (or Whatever) narrowly miss voting for the return of the football team to Div. 1-AA? Good day, Sir.
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This whole fiasco was somewhat misleading. The Faculty Senate, led by a blowhard named Max Page (an art prof) forced a vote that had absolutely no bearing whatsoever. The Faculty Senate had absolutely no power to force the Chancellor to take any action towards football. They can make recommendations only. The Chancellor has expressed his support of the move. The day of the vote, 37 of the 70 Faculty Senators showed up. Max didn't even have support within that body. The only thing they accomplished was bad PR from that genius Holer from the Boston Globe.
 
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