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UMass football will remain in FBS
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04:08 PM ET 02.01 | The UMass Faculty Senate narrowly voted down a proposal to drop the Minutemen football team from NCAA FBS status. UMass competed in its first season of FBS football as a member of the MAC in 2012, and the results left quite a bit to be desired. The Minutemen finished the season 1-11, with the lone victory coming over Akron on Nov. 10, 22-14. Some members of the Faculty Senate viewed the season as evidence that the move from FCS to FBS was a failure and wanted to see UMass immediately return to its previous classification.
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The Faculty Senate has no ability to remove the football program from the FBS level. MassLive and several other outlets have correctly reported that they can only make a suggestion, and that suggestion is powerless. This snippet does not explain that, and readers may misunderstand what this means.
McUMass
Brighton , MA
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You have to start somewhere.
NickTheContrarian
Malden , MA
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You can't give up after one year. Hell, that is only 2 losses behind auburn which has been division 1 for over 100 years.
Joe Kidd #1
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ummm...they played connecticut, indiana, michigan, vandy and northern illionois.
ok, not powerhouses, but still there's 4 ooc games that I would never have expected a new fbs team to win.
puttin on the foil
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Lol
Nice dig
PDX Dawg
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WOW must be a slow news day
mewalke2
Mesa , AZ
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