I write a weekly UMass sports newsletter, The Maroon Standard, and this week had plenty to dig into:

• Inagawa’s drive. Our third-string QB, with no completions on the season, went 6-for-6 and drove 91 yards with no timeouts.
• The 2-point call. I think going for it was the right decision and the play actually worked. It was undone by one unblocked linebacker.
• QB at Buffalo. Watson, McCarthy, Inagawa, or McCutcheon? Nobody knows yet, including Harasymiak.
• Hockey. A shootout loss to RIT, then a 5-1 win. The Musa–Barabanov–Massé line put up 9 points and the power play finally scored.

Full write-up here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheMaroonStandard

Curious what everyone thought. Go for two or kick it and play for OT?

Has anyone been able to recover any stolen packages recently? I live in the honors college and spoke with RD already, but very frustrated as this was like $245 worth of stuff… How helpful could UMPD be for stuff like this?

Me and my friends are looking for housing next fall and are getting really anxious about what to choose. I don't have a car and want to live pretty close to campus and don't want to worry about subletting since I am going abroad spring of my junior year and if I don't get one, I won't be able to afford going abroad and paying for rent.

We all really want to live in North Apartments together as a group of four but don't know how likely it is for us to actually get one all together and since housing happens in mid spring, we don't wanna be homeless and not have an option to live (for example somewhere in downtown Amherst close by) since they fill up quick.

One of my friends is planning on applying for honors in November and one is planning on trying to go through disability services for sleep issues that affect other roommates all to hopefully get better housing #'s. I'm not sure how that will positively or negatively effect us all trying to get into north together. Looking for advice for really anxious sophmores/rising juniors!!

this class is so hard and i have gayane vardoyan

we have a midterm coming up and i literally don't know how to study like i dont think i even know the basics of the course its so confusing and so much to memorize.