UMass Football: Fighting To Be Bad

((ht: deadspin.com))

Hmmmm....this may explain a few things.

A video, posted by the Daily Hampshire Gazette, has raised more than a few eyebrows in and around the University of Massachusetts campus.

The "Hype" video in question, show various shots of UMass football players wrestling, punching and appearing to square off and fight each other.



No, Brad Pitt nor Edward Norton were anywhere to be found.

The video, shot during the teams winter 2012 workouts, appears to have been produced by the schools video staff per instructions by coach Charley Molnar.

And according to the Gazette, a group of former players is very upset and petitioning to stop the "Improper Treatment of Current Players".

Read more from Gazettenet.com RIGHT HERE

Of course, none of this justifies the Minutemen being one of the FBS level patsies for the past couple of seasons. They finished near the bottom of our "Bottom of the Barrel" poll last season.

And in 2013, the suckiness has continued as the team is 0-4 and averaging 7 points a game. And Molnar is still the coach.

And despite Molnar's defense of his method's in the article, perhaps, considering how bad they've been, things might need to change. Though we'd be surprised to see that actually happen.

Watch the video yourself and see if this is the right way to learn how to play football:

Classy Moves For UMass Spring Game

The HQ admittedly gives the UMass football program a lot of grief because, well frankly, they're a very bad Division I football team. The Minutemen were a solid I-AA program that saw the dollars of the big money conference contracts...

And they're getting slaughtered...

But, in the wake of what has happened over the last week in Massachusetts, the team and school are doing a really classy thing for their spring game...

UMass is doing a really cool thing...

UMass football head coach Charley Molnar, offered everyone the chance to ran in the marathon a chance to `Cross The Finish Line' at the Spring game. The runners who attended the spring game on campus got to take a lap around the field, and cross the finish line which will be set-up at the 50-yard line.

"Competing in the Boston Marathon is a lifetime achievement and something to be celebrated," said Molnar who has run everyday for the past five years. "These runners deserve to finish what they started and we hope we can provide that for them. We want them to have that feeling of coming down the home stretch to the sound of applause and to have their friends and families greet them as they cross the line."

In addition, the team shares in the grief and celebration of those whose lives were lost during the criminal run of the Boston Marathon bombers. Special stickers are on the back of the player's helmets and the names of those lost and the phrase #BostonStrong makes its way onto the player's backs.

So, huzzahs to the folks in Amherst for all their thoughts on Saturday...