UMass fires head coach Brown after 6-28 stint

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterNov 18, 2024, 11:57 AM ET

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  College football press reporter; signed up with ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.UMass has actually fired coach Don

Brown, ending his 2nd stint leading the program and the third total, with 2 games to play this season.Brown went 6-28 at UMass over the past two-plus seasons.

He went 43-19 there from 2004 to 2008, reaching an FCS national championship game and a nationwide quarterfinal. Brown, who matured in the state, likewise served as UMass’protective coordinator in 1998 and 1999.” I am incredibly grateful to Coach Brown for going back to UMass 3 years ago to assist us construct back a program he as soon as coached to a national title game,” athletic director Ryan Bamford said in a declaration.”Don should have enormous pride in the impressive contributions he has actually made to advance Massachusetts football throughout his 3 drop in Amherst.”Offending planner Shane Montgomery will function as UMass ‘interim coach for the last two games,

today at No. 12 Georgia and then in your home against UConn. Montgomery is the former head coach at Miami( Ohio). Brown, 69, concerned UMass after spending the 2021 season as defensive coordinator at

Arizona. He likewise held planner roles at Michigan, Boston College, UConn, Maryland and other stops, investing much of his career in New England.Bamford credited Brown for helping UMass, an FBS independent, earn conference subscription again, as the school will begin play in the MAC in 2025. Brown likewise was head coach at Northeastern(27-20) and Plymouth State(25-6 ).