The Massachusetts football team held its annual spring match on Saturday April 19 and showed offensive dimensions for the first time that would give UMASS a new look at the 2025-26 season. Four cortresses hit the stadium, AJ Hairston and Zach Lawrence playing for the team in white shirts and Grant Jordan Will Perry leads Minutemen in Maroon. Maroon Jersey won thanks to a successful conversion of two points and the loss of white shirts in the last field, 18-17.
Unlike the heavy playing book that followed in the 2024 season, UMASS broadcast it in this match between the equivalent, as Hairston and Jordan began, where Qurtubbere began their teams, where he ended more than 160 yards in the air. Hairston found the end area twice with a pair of passes to Dallas Elliot and Brandon Campbell. 2024 was a retreat from the place where the UMASS PASS game was found itself in 2023. Throwing to more than 400 yards slightly less in 2024 of 2023, many of this could be attributed to the injury of Taisun Phommachanh, who found his second year in Amrst as an injury at the first.
The offensive coordinator, Mike Pagkian, loves to manage his crimes through an unworthy air attack. As an interim Utah Utes offensive coordinator in 2024, his team threw nearly 900 yards than it was, and his style of communication was seen early and often.
For both Maroon and White Jersey, the number of passes were more than the number of attempts to rush. Cookie Desiderio was the only run that had two -digit dual attempts.
Hairston also offered his wheels, as he ended the match as the third leading fallen and the second flowing second for White Jersey. While ending with 22 net yards, the rush of 28 yards shook a goal in the White Jersey Square at the fourth and five later in the drive. Jordan also benefited from its legs, as one of the accelerated landing of the Maroon Jerseyed team.
“We did a good job in moving the ball, with running time [kind of] “… we talked, both coordinators and I, you know”, keep it clean, let them play quickly “but I thought [Hairston and Jordan] Both of them run the game, I thought they achieved good throws … they were clean. “
There were not many cases in the 2024 season, when the caller found himself below the center. In all three seasons under the duration of the former coach Don Brown, the “Nou Nriko” gun was heard almost exclusively before picking up the ball. Although the spring game was a few and a half hours, we can say with confidence that more shots were taken under the center on Saturday than the previous three seasons.
It seems that the alteration of the formation of the attack play after playing gives the receptions more time to breathe on its ways and give a greater appearance of gaps and holes to the muscles. The beneficiaries of this was Jacon Gibson and Terry Kelly, who led the Maron and White Jersey teams in receiving squares, respectively. Gibson finished 81 yards, while Kelly ended 79 yards, along with the longest reception per day, 34 yards. Narrow ends were used in the receipt game on Saturday.
Kelly said: “I felt a great job, man.” “I get out of the mcl twist … I [came] from [USF] So I did not get a chance to show my talent … the biggest thing is to continue to improve a person, and to continue faith … [my] The last play I had a fading ball, I should have been arrested. This is the difference between winning the game and losing the game. “
Campbell arrived at the end area to start white shirts in the second quarter, where he ended the drive that concluded with its short lifting in the middle that stopped at the end of the first. His landing came from a passing attempt instead of rush, and is looking to pass the right -right.
While Redshirt Junior was a more consistent goal in the previous season, as he saw time on the field in all games except for one game, Desiderio was overwhelmed by the spring game. Unlike Campbell, the Desiderio Watch the 2024 field only twice and its first season ended with the Minutemen with 20 fast yards.
The Saturday developed a student of Redmet in the spotlight. White shirts in the squares of rushing were led in 10 attempts to 64 yards without backing once.
When Jordan searched for options on the ground for maroon shirts, Rocco Griffin was his main goal. The Redshirt Junior directed the running game with 51 yards on nine campaigns, creating a 35 -yard gap on the statistics sheet between him and the second pioneer Godson offagoro. Griffin was also the manufacturer of men in the Maron, where he completed an attempt to convert the two growing points.
This new edge of the UMASS crime will be tested at the mid -America conference. Without playing a full -energy game on Saturday, and choosing brand treatments, both crimes had more opportunities to test their depth. Playing against his teammates as well, the spring game was not completely composed of the quality of crime with Mac opponents in the future.
“I thought men were competing,” said Harrasimiak. “It is difficult when you don’t go to the ground. Only using your pace, your speed, slows it a little because you do not pass through people, but I thought the process was very clean.”
Minutemen will cool to finish the semester before the summer training camp is adopted in July.
Kelly said: “Umass fans, prepare for a big season, man.” “He was [going to] Her heart, we [trying to] Go to a bowl game. “
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