Trustee Taskforce to Study UMass Football Program

Committee to consider whether the program should seek to compete at the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division 1-A) level.

June 27, 2007
BOSTON – The Board of Trustees Committee on Athletics today approved the creation of a special taskforce to review the intercollegiate football program at UMass Amherst and to consider whether the program should seek to compete at the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division 1-A) level.

We intend to assemble a taskforce that will include representatives from all of the relevant constituencies and will conduct an open, inclusive and comprehensive review of this issue. The Division 1-A question has been out there for many years, and we would like to provide a conclusive answer. We enter this process with open minds and with no predefined outcome in mind, Trustee Matthew E. Carlin, chairman of the athletics panel, said.

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