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SignMan · Hall of Fame Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 3190

I received a request from one of our terrific alums, himself a former UM athlete and a continual great supporter of UMass athletics and more.

"Ed--You are an eloquent spokesman for UMass--kindly help with this--it's very important that we support our leaders here--
Would you kindly pass on to likeminded loyal UMass friends who would like to support this well deserved and timely UMass leadership decision to raise UMass Football to the highest collegiate level--great for school, alums and students."

VERY IMPORTANT: (Please see attached lists of names/addresses-no calls)

Dear friends and supporters of UMass Football and proud UMass alums,

On Saturday( after a great UMass BB win and terrific appearance by Victor Cruz) I met with Athletic Director and friend, John McCutchen. I told him of FOF's plans to meet w/coach and offer our best support for him and the Program.

John said great--However--he said, with real urgency, that the very most important and best thing that we could do immediately for UMass Football was for each and every one of us to write to the Chancellor, President, Chairman of BOT, and Faculty Senate essentially saying-" thank you for making this important and well deserved move to D-1--for believing in our great UMass football tradition and for investing in football's future at the highest level--I totally support you for your decision as a proud UMass alum who plans to support the team and program by being at our games and helping in any way I can"--add your own personal--Been waiting for years--great step in right direction alongside our nationally recognized academics--wonderful opportunities for building more UMass pride and tradition--

All these people have heard LOTS of negatives--faculty madness-negative Boston Globe, NY Times, Springfield papers--BUT--no great overpowering groundswell of alumni support, to offset--Chancellor hanging out there a he inherited this-only here 10 months--and he gets very little--not enough support from alums. Ditto for Pres, Chairman of Board --and faculty senate guy has to be bombarded by hundreds of us writing to him saying we are totally in favor and supportive of D-1 and it's importance.

Please remember--MANY of us lead the fight-started the ball rolling to go D-1--Now we have it, BUT--we absolutely need to support the leaders who made the decision--made the committment --and stuck their "necks" out for us--and this very expensive and-- apparently to some, controversial move. When attacked/questioned--what can they fire back with??

IF we are really and truly Friends Of UMass Football-so many of you are former great players-and some us never played but love our team and can see the great football future-- Then-We Have To Invest A Few Very worthwhile minutes minutes and send each one of these people a personal note of thanks and support-- They will be most grateful to hear from every one of us--NO Checks needed--just your gratitude, support, spirit and belief in UMass Football--without us sending hundreds of letters--I see these leaders asking themselves if alums--AND especially former players like many of you,and the rest of us, who are now successful men and proud UMass grads-if we really do care?? Let's show them we do ASAP!!

1. Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy
Office of the Chancellor
UMass Amherst
374 Whitmore Building
Amherst, MA 01003

Email chancellor@umass.edu

2. President Robert Caret
University of Massachusetts - Office of the President
225 Franklin Street, 33rd Floor
Boston, MA 02110

Email rcaret@umassp.edu

3. Henry Thomas, Chair of the Board of Trustees
225 Franklin Street, 33rd Floor
Boston, MA 02110

Email henrymthom@aol.com

4. Faculty Senate Presiding Officer
Brian O’Connor
Biology
Morrill Science Ctr

briano@bio.umass.edu

Let's get right on this!!--be great to get back so in short order we know that everyone accomplished--love to be able to tell John and coach --that we ALL did our best--for UMass Football and its future.

OH!! We do not have a friend in Mr Bob Hohler of Globe--he is sports investigative reporter--tell him! hohler@globe.com

KahunaK · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:24 am Post subject:

Great idea! I will send letters today.
GO UMASS Football!

njumass08 · Senior Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 1186

Might as well post this here.

Here are the email addresses of everyone you probably want to send the email to. This is all the important people plus the faculty senate. You can copy and paste it into your email box.

chancellor@umass.edu, rcaret@umassp.edu, henrymthom@aol.com, briano@bio.umass.edu, adrion@cs.umass.edu, altstadt@history.umass.edu, baird@asianlan.umass.edu, bartolomeo@english.umass.edu, begay@schoolph.umass.edu, jbberger@educ.umass.edu, mbillings@library.umass.edu, bogartz@psych.umass.edu, jbottoml@music.umass.edu, sbrewer@bio.umass.edu, dabutter@isenberg.umass.edu, marta@isenberg.umass.edu, mjcanavan@library.umass.edu, chiu@llc.umass.edu, chiu@llc.umass.edu, clouse@art.umass.edu, wconner@ecs.umass.edu, dcooley@umass.edu, debevec@mktg.umass.edu, afd@wost.umass.edu, adonson@german.umass.edu, ctfaber@acad.umass.edu, faulkner@soc.umass.edu, ganz@ecs.umass.edu, jeg@bio.umass.edu, grason@polysci.umass.edu, lgreen@linguist.umass.edu, dgross@biochem.umass.edu, emhamin@larp.umass.edu, hhatch@physics.umass.edu, simih@eco.umass.edu, hugus@german.umass.edu, bailey.jackson@educ.umass.edu, mcking@nursing.umass.edu, afkinney@english.umass.edu, pkumble@larp.umass.edu, looze@ecs.umass.edu, shona@art.umass.edu, rwm@educ.umass.edu, mangaliso@isenberg.umass.edu, fmangan@umass.edu, rkmann@art.umass.edu, hjmo@astro.umass.edu, moss@cs.umass.edu, ogilvie@history.umass.edu, mpage@art.umass.edu, rparadise@chem.umass.edu, hapeelle@educ.umass.edu, mjp@polsci.umass.edu, mphilipp@classics.umass.edu, rinderle@ecs.umass.edu, lroberts@biochem.umass.edu, saunders@econ.umass.edu, shabazz@afroam.umass.edu, sharma@isenberg.umass.edu, sims@journ.umass.edu, smircich@isenberg.umass.edu, stew@library.umass.edu, stid@chem.umass.edu, ssturgeon@schoolph.umass.edu, sugerman@anthro.umass.edu, tymoczko@complit.umass.edu, pvittum@umass.edu, vouvakis@ecs.umass.edu, warnick@isenberg.umass.edu, ewashington@educ.umass.edu, swhitbo@psych.umass.edu, rww@journ.umass.edu, awhiteley@eco.umass.edu, wileden@cs.umass.edu,

SignMan · Hall of Fame Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 3190

It has been suggested to me to post a different email address for Henry Thomas; the aol address may be a dead end.

HMThomas@UlSpringfield.org

njumass08 · Senior Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 1186

Got a response from Mr. Faber. He was one of the few Fac Senate members who spoke out in favor of the FBS move at the January meeting.

He sounds like a great guy.

Chris20 · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:52 am Post subject:

Great response. What a great guy....it's now clear why they named that awesome college after him.

njumass08 · Senior Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 1186

TruBluMaroon · Sophomore Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 228

njumass08 · Senior Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 1186

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jaytraf · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:51 pm Post subject:

I sent an email to a bunch of them this morning asking them for their support and to make sure they give it adequate time before reacting.

Within 3 minutes I got a response from Henry Thomas stating

"Thanks for your letter Jay!
I can assure you, we are in it for the long haul!
Henry"

Which I think is very encouraging. I sent it to the aol address.

Here is kumble's response...

"Thank you for taking the time to write to me and to President Caret to express your support for our football program. As I said in a statement released last month, “I am fully committed to working with Athletic Director John McCutcheon and Coach Molnar to ensure that our participation at the premier level of college football continues to be a source of pride for years to come for everyone associated with our great university. I look forward to seeing all of our old and new UMass fans next season as we build an outstanding football program together.”

President Caret and I thank you for your continued support of UMass Amherst and its athletic program.

Regards,

Kumble R. Subbaswamy"

njumass08 · Senior Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 1186

CrooksisRhyming · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:19 pm Post subject:

That's a good thing as far as I can tell. To me that response from Caret/Swamy says: We have received so many e-mails about this that we created a standard-form response that can be sent to each person concerned about the program.
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njumass08 · Senior Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 1186

I just got a nasty email from an Anthropology professor who is on the Faculty Senate. Wow.

InnervisionsUMASS · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:31 pm Post subject:

He has quite the open mind!

Oh, wait...
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njumass08 · Senior Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 1186

Does anyone know what the budget for the anthropology department is? I can't find it on the UMass budget.