Talk:UMass Minutemen football

Hello, About using "UMass" or "Massachusetts"
I'm not affiliated to the University of Massachusetts in any way. I'm only a college football fan. But recently I noticed that the articles pertaining to University of Massachusetts football is one of a selective few college football team in the nation which does not use the formal name of the school in wikipedia. I was looking around wikipedia and also noticed that neighbor UConn huskies use Connecticut Huskies to name articles. Has this been talked about in any other talk page? Has anyone reached consensus on the correct name? Just wondering...

EdwinCasadoBaez (talk) 13:43, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

"UMass" and its derivatives "U-Mass", "U of Mass.", etc. have been used frequently in both colloquial and formal contexts. As of date (2018) the current athletics administration has been increasingly pushing "Massachusetts" in formal/official contexts (referring to themselves as "Massachusetts Athletics") and "UMass" in colloquial contexts or where space is constrained. Examples of this can be seen here: "UMass" should be used in the same regard as, for example, "U-M" would be used for "Michigan".

Massman96 (talk) 17:15, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

ant the full name of the university is ?
would be nice to know 208.127.128.153 (talk) 16:16, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The school calls itself the "University of Masschusetts Amherst." (There are several other University of Massachusetts campuses, one of which— the University of Massachusetts Lowell— also has an extensive D-I athletic program.) The athletic wordmark logo says "UMass" but the program usually refers to itself as the "University of Massachusetts." Timothy Horrigan (talk) 23:31, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned references in UMass Minutemen football
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of UMass Minutemen football's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "newdc": From Don Brown (American football coach): Brown Hired As Defensive Coordinator, University of Maryland Terrapins Football, January 9, 2009, retrieved January 9, 2009. From 2009 Maryland Terrapins football team: Brown Hired As Defensive Coordinator, University of Maryland, January 9, 2009, retrieved January 9, 2009. 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 06:39, 20 February 2017 (UTC)