For the most part agree with Michael Traini post and lead guy for umass.247sports site.

Quote:Before this season started, a season where I predicted four wins, I thought that Whipple's job was relatively safe. There was some heat, but if the team pieced together a 4-8 season and looked decent doing it, with improvements on defense and such, I figured he would be here to see what could happen in 2018.

That of course was predicated on the team starting the season off well and winning two of the first three games, particularly last night's affair with Coastal.

I had people ask me if Whip was gone with another 2 or 3 win season, and my answer was always that given all the mitigating factors, I didn't even want to think about how bad a season UMass would have to have in order for Whipple to get fired.

Unfortunately, we're much closer to that today than we rightfully should be.

UMass had or has maybe six "winnable" games on the schedule this season, maximum. Three of those games were the first three of the season. So far, they're 0-2 and they haven't looked good in either. Same mistakes, same issues, same old same old.

In college football, if you're not moving forward, you're moving backward. The University of Massachusetts cannot afford to move backward any further as a program. If changes need to be made, we have to hope that the administration, namely Bamford, will make them without hesitation.

Bamford has shown he is willing to make changes if necessary, and has replaced UMass "royalty" before. He did not hire Whipple, and given Bamford's own personal aspirations (like eventually being a P5 athletic director) he must be completely bought in to making the entire athletic department better quickly, with football as the crown jewel. Both his own personal future and the university's cannot afford to have a football program that is stagnant like UMass' is right now.

We'll see how the program responds next weekend, but I can say with certainty that Whipple seat went from warm to white hot after that loss last night. Now if they manage to turn it around and win those four or five games this season, well then he's not going anywhere. But if they don't.