2005 Football • MEDIA INFORMATION 2005 University of Massachusetts Football 195 2005 Football • MEDIA INFORMATION Media GUIDELINES Interviews UMass Media Relations Office • All interviews should be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance through the media relations office by calling Jason Jason Yellin Yellin (413-577-3061). Assistant A.D./Media Relations • The best time to interview Coach Don Brown is before or (Football, Men’s Basketball, after practice, Tuesday through Thursday. Men’s Lacrosse) • The best time to interview players is before practice, Phone: 413-577-3061 Tuesday through Thursday. Arrangements for interviews Cell: 413-687-1756 must be made by 2:00 p.m. the day prior to the interview Email: [email protected] so that notices can be posted for the players (example: call by 2:00 p.m. Monday for a Tuesday interview). Team practice time varies, so please call to confirm the time. Players phone Kimberly Gardner numbers will not be given out without permission and phone Associate Director interviews are requested to be done after practice as well. (Ice Hockey, Women’s Soccer, • Due to scheduling and potential class conflicts, post-practice Baseball) player interviews will be limited in number and time. Phone: 413-545-5292 • There will be no player or coach interviews on the day of a Cell: 413-687-7797 game, until after the game is finished. Email: [email protected] • The UMass locker and training rooms are off limits to media at all times, unless ushered by a UMass media relations Seth Gerard representative. Assistant Director (Women’s Basketball, Softball, Credentials Field Hockey) Requests for press, radio, television and photo credentials Phone: 413-577-0053 should be made to Jason Yellin in the UMass media relations Cell: 413-87-2237 office via email ([email protected]) or by phone (413- Email: [email protected] 577-3061). Please make your request at least 24 hours prior to the game. Confirmation of your request will be made John Sinnett upon receipt. Passes not picked up in advance, will be available Assistant Director at the media will call gate of McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Please (Men’s Soccer, Women’s Lacrosse, direct all requests for road contests to Jason Yellin or the Track & Field, Swimming & Diving) host school’s media relations director. Phone: 413-545-1744 Cell: 413-687-2237 Parking Email: [email protected] Media parking is available through the press gate at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. We ask that you limit your request to one Bob Behler parking pass for each media outlet. Manager of Broadcast Properties (Broadcasting, Rowing) Telephones Phone: 413-545-9672 There are two community telephones in the press box for Email: [email protected] use by the media. To order a private phone, call the media relations office at (413) 577-3061. Ruthie Drew Statistics / Services Administrative Assistant Halftime and final individual and team statistics, quarter play- Phone: 413-545-2439 by-play, scoring summaries, defensive stats and drive charts Email: [email protected] are provided. Complete books are available approximately 30 minutes after the game. Fax service is available after the game, with advance notice to the media relations office. Media guides and game notes are made available before each Football Gameday Staff contest. A meal will be served 90 minutes before kickoff. Amy Apicerno, Peter Axtman, Tim Brown, Abby Hensel, Jeffrey Earls, Jeff Lajoie, Dave Quinn. Jack O’Neill (Public Address Announcer); Al Beaubien (Statistics); Jack O’Brien (Statistics); Sean O’Brien (Statistics) 2005 UMass Travel Itinerary Richmond - Sept. 1 Maine - Oct. 22 Army - Nov. 12 Sheraton West Four Points Sheraton Marriott – Park Ridge 6624 West Broad Street 308 Godfrey Blvd. 300 Brae Blvd Richmond, VA 23230 Bangor, Maine 04401 Park Ridge, NJ 07656 804-285-2000 207-947-6721 201-307-0800 Colgate - Sept. 10 Delaware - Nov. 5 Hofstra - Nov. 19 Radisson Hotel Utica Centre Hilton - Wilmington/Christiana Marriott Long Island & Conf. Center James Ihedigbo 200 Genesee Street 100 Continental Drive 101 James Doolittle Blvd. being interviewed at Utica, NY 13502 Newark, Delaware 19713 Uniondale, NY 11553 Media Day 2004. 315-797-8010 302-631-1540 516-794-3800 196 2005 University of Massachusetts Football 2005 Football • MEDIA INFORMATION Photographers Brown at UMass Sports Luncheon UMass subscribes to the policy suggested by the NCAA Coach Brown speaks weekly throughout the football season Football Rules Committee, and all photographers must shoot at the UMass Sports Luncheon. The luncheons are held within designated areas as determined by the NCAA. Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. in the UMass Campus Center Photographers must have a special photo credential issued or at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Media members should by the media relations office and must stay outside of the contact the UMass Media Relations Office for details and bench areas. reservations. Radio UMass on the World Wide Web Radio lines (analog) are available to visiting radio at McGuirk Information on UMass football and all 23 varsity sports is Alumni Stadium for a fee of $75 per line per game or by available at “www.umassathletics.com” through the UMass reciprocal agreement. An ISDN line is also available for $150 Athletics home page. All notes and statistics will be available per game. All lines must be requested at least one week through the site. In addition, UMass radio broadcasts can prior to the game. Out-going calls should be made on a be heard on the internet with information on broadcast collect or calling card basis. Additional lines may be ordered locations available on the UMass Athletics home page. through the media relations office by calling (413) 577-3061. Spotters and statisticians will be provided for a fee upon one-week advance notice. Television News stations covering the game must shoot from either the photo deck or on the field level outside the bench areas. Atlantic 10 Weekly Teleconference Coach Don Brown is available to the media every Monday during the season via the Atlantic 10 Football Conference weekly coaches’ teleconference. The first teleconference call will take place on August 29, with the final one set for November 21. Brown will be featured from 11:10-11:20 a.m. each week. For a full schedule of when each coach appears during the teleconference or the call number in order to participate, please call Ray Cella in the Atlantic 10 office at (215) 545-6678. Television INFORMATION Minutemen on Television Atlantic 10 Television Schedule UMass will once again make a number of appearances Date Game Net Time on live television during the 2005 regular season. The Colgate Sept. 3 Georgia Southern at Northeastern CN8 2:00 p.m. game (Sept. 10), James Madison game (Oct. 15), the New Sept. 10 UMass at Colgate CN8 12:00 p.m. Hampshire game (Oct. 29), and the Delaware contest (Nov. Sept. 10 Lehigh at Delaware CN8 7:00 p.m. 5) will all be shown by CN8 on Comcast Cablevision. UMass’ Sept. 17 Wiliam & Mary at Rhode Island A-10 12:00 p.m. game at Army (Nov. 12), will be televised on one of the ESPN Sept. 17 Northeastern at Villanova CN8 7:00 p.m. family of networks. Sept. 24 Penn at Villanova CN8 7:00 p.m. Oct. 1 Villanova at New Hampshire CN8 12:30 p.m. Last season, UMass had five games carried on live Oct. 8 Hofstra at Delaware A-10 12:00 p.m. television, as the Colgate, Delaware, Boston College, Oct. 15 James Madison at UMass CN8 12:00 p.m. Northeastern, and Hofstra games were all aired. The Oct. 22 Northeastern at New Hampshire CN8 12:00 p.m. Minutemen have a record of 17-10 in televised games since Oct. 22 James Madison at Delaware CSTV 12:00 p.m. the beginning of the 1998 season, including a 12-6 record Oct. 29 New Hampshire at UMass CN8 12:00 p.m. against Atlantic 10 opponents. Oct. 29 Delaware at Maine CN8 3:30 p.m. Nov. 5 UMass at Delaware CN8 1:00 p.m. Nov. 12 UMass at Army ESPN TBA Don Brown on Television Nov. 12 Richmond at Towson A-10 12:00 p.m. Every Sunday night at 11:30 p.m., the Coach’s Corner Nov. 19 Delaware at Villanova CN8 1:00 p.m. with Don Brown can be seen on WGGB-TV, ABC40 in Springfield. The short segment, which runs at the tale end of the Sunday night news, features highlights from Saturday’s game and a look ahead to the next week’s opponent. The show runs throughout UMass’ season. CN8 will broadcast four UMass football games in 2005. 2005 University of Massachusetts Football 197 2005 Football • MEDIA INFORMATION Radio INFORMATION All University of Massachusetts football games can be heard live on the UMass Radio Network, with WRNX 100.9 The Broadcast Team FM serving as the flagship station in western Massachusetts. Bob Behler UMass fans in the central returns for his and eastern part of seventh season as Massachusetts can the “Voice of the hear the games on Minutemen.” He WCRN 830 AM and earned “Best Play-By- WATD 95.9 FM. In Play” honors from the addition, every game and Massachusetts coaches show can be Associated Press for heard live on the the fourth time in the worldwide web, by logging on to last five years. Behler www.umassathletics.com. The pregame show begins 30 announces football minutes prior to kickoff. and men’s basketball Don Brown’s hour-long weekly radio show, broadcast on the UMass live from The Hangar Pub & Grill in Amherst, airs every Network and hosts Bob Behler and Matt Goldstein.