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Here's the silver lining. The games aren't blowouts. UMass (9-7, 0-4) will win its next game to get off the schneid and could very well be looking at (13-7, 4-4) soon. Get 2 wins in a row and the team starts believing. I know nothing about any of these teams other than their records.

Ball State (4-11, 0-3)
W Mich (6-9, 0-3)
Northern Illinois (5-10, 1-3)
holy Toledo (9-6, 3-0)
 
Alum86 said:
Win consistently and you’ll get invited to a conference you desire. There are always exceptions.
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I think you meant: Win consistently (in football) and you’ll get invited to a conference you desire.

Then again it doesn’t really explain how UMass found their way to the MAC, assuming it was desired.
 
Alum86 said:
Win consistently and you’ll get invited to a conference you desire. There are always exceptions.
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BCU, Pitt and Cuse being exceptions that come to mind immediately.
 
Kolumbo said:
Here's the silver lining. The games aren't blowouts. UMass (9-7, 0-4) will win its next game to get off the schneid and could very well be looking at (13-7, 4-4) soon. Get 2 wins in a row and the team starts believing. I know nothing about any of these teams other than their records.

Ball State (4-11, 0-3)
W Mich (6-9, 0-3)
Northern Illinois (5-10, 1-3)
holy Toledo (9-6, 3-0)
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Oh man look at that schedule. Maybe they can move their games to Amherst College instead of playing in a Mullins Center filled to 15% capacity? The Cage would have been perfect but I know that’s been repurposed
 
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Vuce said:
They followed up with a loss today vs 5-11 NIU. So bad
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UMess lucks out with MWC-bound NIU. After this season, the Minutemen won’t have as many opportunities to lose to the frequent MAC basketball bottom feeders in DeKalb.
 
huskymedic said:
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That's incredible. I try not to advocate for schools to drop their ambitions, especially knowing that we had a few years of extreme suffering ourselves. But at this point, they're so much better off going back to playing against URI and Maine...
 
UConnDan97 said:
That's incredible. I try not to advocate for schools to drop their ambitions, especially knowing that we had a few years of extreme suffering ourselves. But at this point, they're so much better off going back to playing against URI and Maine...
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They need an AD with a clue.
 
UConnDan97 said:
That's incredible. I try not to advocate for schools to drop their ambitions, especially knowing that we had a few years of extreme suffering ourselves. But at this point, they're so much better off going back to playing against URI and Maine...
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UMass can drop and turn America East into a modern Yankee conference. The A-10 is dying so URI shouldn't have too many qualms about swapping. I would think they could get a CBSSN/NESN/SNY/ESPN+ type media deal going for men's basketball and maybe some WBB and football like they have in the A-10.
 
The A10 is much more valuable than the America East, that’s why URI and UMass wouldn’t ever move there. Playing in a Yankee Conference that’s only real feature are the irrelevant regional flagships is not appealing.
 
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by any chance, is anyone here following UMass' recruiting and can give an overview of how they're doing this offseason in the portal otherwise, in their re-loading efforts? I am too lazy to go searching for umass boards, but I always casually root for them to not suck anymore. last year was worse even than anything I saw at UConn even in our worst days... my heart just breaks for those guys.
 
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FightOnCT said:
The A10 is much more valuable than the America East, that’s why URI and UMass wouldn’t ever move there. Playing in a Yankee Conference that’s only real feature are the irrelevant regional flagships is not appealing.
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Depends what you mean by valuable. Each school is making a few hundred grand a year off the media deal. Its value drops every year it continues to fade into its new reality as a bloated one-bid no-football league. Doesn't really move the needle
 
UMass Hoops lost to #24 Miami OH 86-84. That would have been a huge win and they were leading 47-43 at the half. Attendance 9,200 in Miami.

UMass Football needs to do a bunch of things to turn the ship around. First follow UConn's lead and try to hire a successful coach from the MAC or another G6. Coach Candle is clearly bringing a lot of recruits from Toledo so that is an immediate boost to the roster. Hopefully in our case that translates to wins. A coach going to UMass may not have the same recruiting impact but it should have some. Perhaps a coach from a high FCS program where the players would consider UMass a move up in terms of competition and exposure. Coach Joe Harasymiak is from NJ, coached at Maine, Minnesota and Rutgers and may be a good coach but the program needs transformational changes. Maybe they are doing some of that already.
 
FightOnCT said:
UMass probably doesn’t have the pull to take a successful FCS coach let alone MAC coach.
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That's another area where UMass has to be all in or get out. $$$$

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Kolumbo said:
UMass Hoops lost to #24 Miami OH 86-84. That would have been a huge win and they were leading 47-43 at the half. Attendance 9,200 in Miami.

UMass Football needs to do a bunch of things to turn the ship around. First follow UConn's lead and try to hire a successful coach from the MAC or another G6. Coach Candle is clearly bringing a lot of recruits from Toledo so that is an immediate boost to the roster. Hopefully in our case that translates to wins. A coach going to UMass may not have the same recruiting impact but it should have some. Perhaps a coach from a high FCS program where the players would consider UMass a move up in terms of competition and exposure. Coach Joe Harasymiak is from NJ, coached at Maine, Minnesota and Rutgers and may be a good coach but the program needs transformational changes. Maybe they are doing some of that already.
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Why would any successful ciach in the MAC or FCS leave prosperity to coach at that dumpster fire and work for Ryan Bamford?
 
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ZooCougar said:
Why would any successful ciach in the MAC or FCS leave prosperity to coach at that dumpster fire and work for Ryan Bamford?
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Fame and Fortune. You think a successfull coach in the MAC or FCS is prosperity? Jim Calhoun left Northeastern and he is UConn's Hero. A state like Mass has the resources. They just don't have the intellect.
 
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