Baker among those kicking arse

Deven Baker gave fans a little preview as to what to expect at Temple University in the upcoming four years.
He kicked some serious arse, as Jim Rome might describe it, in some recent games this fall.
Deven Baker's most recent game is describe in this article in the Bridgewater (N.J.)
Courier-News
All over, future Temple players are not only part of the story, but THE story for their high school teams.
When they come here, they will expect to make no less of an impact.

UMass-Fordham Web Album

I've added a UMass Fordham Web Album on Picassa. The link is here. There are about 40 images of the game.

Also added a link in the sidebar under the "2007 UMass images section"

UMass-SIU to be televised on MASN

That's the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network . Their program listing does not yet show Saturday's schedule.

The game will also available on ESPN+ .

This page shows the game on MASN.

MASN is found on Dish TV Channel 438 and Direct TV's Channel 626.

Some people are saying that the game may be blacked out in certain areas...

Great UMass minds think alike, I got an e-mail, a comment from blog reader Drew Comeau (and former UMass player) and I found it myself all about the same time. Thanks to all who made sure I had the information.

More info when I have it.

UPDATE: The game will be shown on NESN as per this UMass Athletic Dept post. Yeah! NESN easily has the widest distribution of any channel we've talked about so far.

That's channel 434 on Dish Network.

More playoff stuff

The Boston Herald has a UMass article here .

Keeper has UMass as #4 in FCS, however he has UMass as a three point underdog to SIU (in fact, he has all the CAA teams as underdogs).

Meanwhile, back in Carbondale, the Salukis have a suffocating defense .

Eastern Illinois TE Jordan Campanella had a big day against SIU. Wish we had Brad Listorti available. Sigh.

UPDATE: UMass has its game notes up. Nothing yet from SIU.

AROUND FCS:

Mark Whipple is not going to Rhode Island.

The Delaware Hens are, on the other hand, going to UNI.

Monday Morning Reading

The Boston Herald has a UMass article here .

Jeff Thomas of the Springfield Republican has an article here .

Three articles about the Salukis: They're thinking about UMass, their quarterback Rick Hill is unstoppable, and SIU is so good they're boring .

They have a message board "Saluki Talk"

Southern Illinios' press guide is only a six meg download here .

By the way, SME network is picking SIU over UMass in the next round (see the playoff chart)

UPDATE: Matty Vautour of the Hamp Gazette has a game notes article here .

AROUND THE PLAYOFFS:

Delaware is the next CAA team to have a shot at #1 Northern Iowa.

UNH is looking towards next year.

Uh-Oh! TV coverage of UMass-Southern Illinois may be a problem

Just received the following e-mail from Jason Yellin, the UMass Sports Information Director:

The UMass at Southern Illinois NCAA Quarterfinal FCS Football game will take
place at 3:30 p.m. ET in Carbondale, Illinois. It will be shown on ESPN
Gameplan. It will also be available on other various channels across the
nation. Those channels will be released later this week.

 Here is the complete Quarterfinal schedule.



December  1 at Boone, North Carolina (ESPN Gameplan at Noon ET)

Eastern Wash. (9-3) at Appalachian St. (10-2)



December  1 at Cedar Falls, Iowa (ESPN Gameplan at 2 p.m. ET)

Delaware (9-3) at No. 1 UNI (12-0)



December  1 at Carbondale, Illinois (ESPN Gameplan at 3:30 p.m. ET)

Massachusetts (10-2) at No. 4 Southern Ill. (11-1)



December  1 at Spartanburg, South Carolina (ESPN Gameplan at 7 p.m. ET)

Richmond (10-2) at Wofford (9-3)

Let's hope NESN or somebody picks up the game. Otherwise it's $21.95 a week. Link here.

Fordham game articles

Image above is a UMass Athletic Dept image.

On the day after one of the most impressive offensive showings in UMass history, we have a lot of game articles.

The Hartford Courant has an article featuring the running of Matt Lawrence.

The Boston Herald has an article featuring the pass-and-catch combo of Coen and Rancher .

The Herald has another game article here .

The NY Daily News has an article about Fordham's last game of the season here .

Jeff Thomas has two game articles here and here .

The Boston Globe has a game article here .

And the Worcester Telegram has another here .

Matty Vautour has a game article in the Hampshire Gazette here.

AROUND THE PLAYOFFS:

The CAA has game recaps for all the CAA teams in the playoffs including box scores here .

New Hampshire came within 7 seconds of upsetting #1 UNI.

JMU fumbled away a win at Appalachian State (and brought a groan from the UMass crowd at McGuirk)

Richmond took care of business against Eastern Kentucky.

CSN recaps the entire playoffs here .