OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS

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OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - RamblinRedWolf44 - 04-27-2016 03:59 PM

http://footballscoop.com/news/and-now-umass-faculty-leaders-are-calling-for-the-school-to-drop-out-of-fbs/

"And now UMass faculty leaders are calling for the school to drop out of FBS
ByZach BarnettPosted on April 27, 2016
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Oh boy, here we go again.

Just a day after Eastern Michigan fought off rumors the school could drop from FBS to Division II, the UMass faculty senate plans to call for its school to do the same. As reported by MassLive, tomorrow’s meeting will include an effort to “urge Chancellor Subbaswamy, President Meehan, and the Board of Trustees of the University to end Division I football (Football Bowl Subdivision) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and either move to a different division or discontinue NCAA football altogether.”

The university’s Ad Hoc committee previously urged the Minutemen to drop out of major college football, an effort that (obviously) failed. In fact, this effort has been ongoing in some form or fashion for three-and-a-half years now.

Like Eastern Michigan, UMass has never truly caught on at the FBS level. The Minutemen are 8-40 since moving from FCS, bounced back and forth from the on-campus McGuirk Stadium and the cavernous, far-away Gillette Stadium and, unlike Eastern Michigan, do not have MAC membership on which to rely. UMass will play an independent schedule this fall — which, to be fair, includes Boston College and Mississippi State coming to Gillette Stadium. But independence is hard enough for an established program like BYU, much less a struggling start-up.

It’s highly doubtful a faculty senate request amounts to anything other than bad press, but expect a swift dismissal of this story from UMass brass shortly."

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - panama - 04-27-2016 04:05 PM

meh...its faculty...carry on...

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - TrueBlueDrew - 04-27-2016 04:22 PM

Good lord they're dropping like flies

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - panama - 04-27-2016 04:24 PM

Not really. Not first time UMass faculty pulls this.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - arkstfan - 04-27-2016 04:27 PM

Faculty suffer from the delusion that anyone gives a crap what they think about anything other than suggestions related to improving academic ratings of the school. If you want to attack football the faculty is the worst point of attack. You get the students opposed first then have the faculty jump on the bandwagon.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - EigenEagle - 04-27-2016 04:33 PM

(04-27-2016 04:05 PM)panama Wrote: meh...its faculty...carry on...

This...

A faculty senate vote is a lot like the UN voting on a resolution contemplating writing a strongly-worded letter demanding that some third world dictator begin treating political prisoners better.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - eaglewraith - 04-27-2016 04:36 PM

(04-27-2016 04:33 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:
(04-27-2016 04:05 PM)panama Wrote: meh...its faculty...carry on...

This...

A faculty senate vote is a lot like the UN voting on a resolution contemplating writing a strongly-worded letter demanding that some third world dictator begin treating political prisoners better.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - RamblinRedWolf44 - 04-27-2016 04:37 PM

I agree students have more influence than faculty-with that said I've never really got umass and the decisions they've made; they never struck me as a viable FBS program, when they lucked out and got a home in the MAC they completely self sabotaged any stability they could've had. I get that they aspire for the AAC and good for them for setting high expectations, their rash decision to me is equivalent to that of a high school student enrolls in college with a part time on campus job that decides "eh...I'm going to quit this job and become self employed expecting bill gates to eventually reconigize how awesome I am."

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - panama - 04-27-2016 04:38 PM

I just saw UMass' schedule for the next 3 seasons. They wil be fine. In fact many may be monitoring how a G5 pulls off this Back to the Future stunt called independence.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - OsageJ - 04-27-2016 05:44 PM

My problem with UMass is the same thing Idaho had one problem with. After moving up they have made no effort to get a local FBS stadium. Gillette is not a good place for them and the pro stadium is a hour and a half away. This is one thing Georgia State is addressing. You need a close stadium to play in that will align with the level you want to be.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - TroyFootball05 - 04-27-2016 06:39 PM

We have a home game in football with them this year. They were just raked dead last (128) by the Orlando Sentinel. Hopefully that and (Austin Peay) will be a couple easy Ws for Troy.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - MJG - 04-27-2016 06:50 PM

(04-27-2016 05:44 PM)OsageJ Wrote: My problem with UMass is the same thing Idaho had one problem with. After moving up they have made no effort to get a local FBS stadium. Gillette is not a good place for them and the pro stadium is a hour and a half away. This is one thing Georgia State is addressing. You need a close stadium to play in that will align with the level you want to be.

I agree with that 16-17k won't cut it .
The dumb part is their not that far away WKU 22500 is the favorite in C-USA.
Nevada and Utah St are reducing capacity to 26 and 23k right now .
The average in the SBC for stadiums that schools paid for no GSU or USA has to be around mid twenties. That is when Coastal joins at twenty one thousand .
The MAC has an average capacity in the mid twenties all on campus paid for by the schools.U Mass could add an end zone horseshoe and equal WKU.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - Steve1981 - 04-27-2016 07:51 PM

(04-27-2016 05:44 PM)OsageJ Wrote: My problem with UMass is the same thing Idaho had one problem with. After moving up they have made no effort to get a local FBS stadium. Gillette is not a good place for them and the pro stadium is a hour and a half away. This is one thing Georgia State is addressing. You need a close stadium to play in that will align with the level you want to be.

wtf is this . Plans for expansion will probably not pickup speed, without a conference affiliation. The capacity is 17k.
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These are a year old and just posters at this point, but heard there are 3 plans and estimated dollars being assessed.
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What must of us want is a complete tear down of the stands on the right. Replaced as in the posters with all amenites you'd expect at a
FBS stadium.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - Chappy - 04-27-2016 08:10 PM

FWIW, even Rutgers faculty call for an end of football from time to time.

Re: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - southern edumacation - 04-27-2016 08:44 PM

Someone on Reddit r/cfb said UMass will announce dropping down next week. I think it's pretty serious.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - panama - 04-28-2016 10:54 AM

(04-27-2016 08:44 PM)southern edumacation Wrote: Someone on Reddit r/cfb said UMass will announce dropping down next week. I think it's pretty serious.

LOL

Not happening.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - rokamortis - 04-28-2016 11:29 AM

(04-28-2016 10:54 AM)panama Wrote:
(04-27-2016 08:44 PM)southern edumacation Wrote: Someone on Reddit r/cfb said UMass will announce dropping down next week. I think it's pretty serious.

LOL

Not happening.

Economics Teacher: [takes attendance] Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Simone: Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - southern edumacation - 04-28-2016 02:53 PM

(04-28-2016 11:29 AM)rokamortis Wrote: Economics Teacher: [takes attendance] Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Simone: Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

I'm glad somebody picked up on that.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - JCGSU - 04-28-2016 03:50 PM

(04-27-2016 04:05 PM)panama Wrote: meh...its faculty...carry on...

Our faculty was not on board either when football was restarted. Who give to craps what temporary employees, many of which have no loyalty to the school once they leave, think.

I think only a slight majority were on board for the FBS move. This one English (of course) professor made a big deal out it. I had him and he was one of those type professors...Just regurgitate the crap I am spewing and you get an A.

RE: OT: UMass Officials now calling for the Minutemen to Bail Out of FBS - Steve1981 - 04-28-2016 03:54 PM

The few Senator Faculity members embarrassed themselves at today's meeting.
There was strong support from the Student Government representative, students, AD, Chancellor, etc. John Kennedy, who gave around 12 million for our new Basketball Practice facility was also in attendance.

Some quotes:

Quote:SGA President Anthony Vitale gets up to speak about football. Says he’s received hundreds of messages in support of team from students.

Quote:She also apologized to Matt Sparks/other players for senators making connection between football & sexual violence.Daniel Malone added,
Matt Vautour @MattVautourDHG
Dr. Rebecca Spencer, a senator is ripping colleagues for lack of knowledge on what they're speaking about

Quote:The motion against FBS football is defeated by a vote count of 26 to 14.

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