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UMass Recruiting: News and Notes

Juwann Bushell-Beatty, a huge 2014 offensive lineman from New Jersey, has picked up an offer from UMass. The news comes from Rivals’ Shawn Brown, who pretty much has the scoop on New Jersey recruiting. Bushnell-Beatty is already 6’7 and 310 pounds. 247 Sports has Michigan, Penn State and Rutgers showing interest, but UMass is his first and only to offer. NJ.com’s Todderick Hunt, who covers Rutgers’ football and recruiting, wrote that Bushell-Beatty might be the ”best garden state offensive lineman“ from the 2014 class. He also reported that Pitt and Ohio State are interested. Check out his hudl highlights here. It sounds like [...]

Huskies Offer Holines

Jul 22nd, 2012

by Bob McGovern.

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ESPN Boston’s Brendan Hall tweeted that UConn extended an offer to Sha’ki Holines, a UMass recruit that already gave a solid verbal to the Minutemen. Per @benlarsenwrites, UConn has offered Springfield Commerce LB and UMass commit Sha’ki Holines — Brendan Hall (@BHallESPN) July 22, 2012 Rivals confirms the offer. It appears that UConn is hot on UMass’ trail with Holines. Back when Holines committed, Tyrone Mathis, his head coach, told ESPN Boston that other schools weren’t really showing interest. I just believe he’s all camped out. We really didn’t get any huge inclination from any other school that they wanted [...]

2013 Recruiting: News and Notes

May 8th, 2012

by Bob McGovern.

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UMass is continuing to make its presence felt in the Sunshine State. The Minutemen extended an offer to Craig Mackey, a cornerback from Tallahassee, according to the athlete’s own tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/cmack12tldc/status/199644271119310849 There isn’t a lot of stuff out there about Mackey right now, but he does have an ESPN page, which lists him at 5’11 and 174 pounds. Mackey plays for the Big Bend 7-on-7 team, which is similar to Team Tampa – a squad UMass has recruited pretty hard this year. The team’s manager also mentioned Mackey’s UMass offer on Twitter. – Eric Carter, a wide receiver from Lakeland [...]

2013 Recruiting: News and Notes

Apr 23rd, 2012

by Bob McGovern.

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UMass has extended an offer to Skai Moore, a heavily recruited linebacker from Fort Lauderdale, according to Chris Nee from Rivals. Moore has an interesting array of offers from across the county – ranging from Southern University to Nebraska. ESPN has Moore ranked as the 28th best linebacker in the county. Check out his highlights here. – John Montelus, an offensive lineman from Everett with an offer from UMass, has signed with Notre Dame, according to Rivals. The Boston Herald also had a story on the signing. By our count, this is the second recruit UMass has lost to the Fighting Irish, [...]