Worcester State University

He was a licensed private pilot.

He went to Worcester State, and he finished law school at Boston College in 1978.

This guy's a jack-of-all-trades, seriously.

Now, that same year after finishing law school, he moved to Townsend and was one of those small-town lawyers that just kind of like does a little bit of everything.

And I'll give you an example.

Anna Maria College in Paxton, which closed this past spring, their students had established transfer pathways to Worcester State and Fitchburg State, and those students with very little other choice and certainly not a lot of time to make those choices they transferred to those schools for example so so we're seeing you know transfer growth we're seeing um enrollment growth which is of course very good for our state college system our taxes are paying a lot of it but not total budgets and um yeah it's good good news on on the smaller campuses

Yeah, well, I was wrestling with whether or not it's good news or bad news because one of your story highlights headlines is that it's really also stemming from closed private institutions.

So, I mean, that's the underside of this, right?

I'm a style of architecture.

What school did Chris go to? Did we ever find that out? Worcester State.

Did we ever ask? I don't think we have.

Have we ever cared? No.

But, you know, a lot of weird stuff's happened so far [laughs] in 26, Frank, so you never know what you're gonna get.

I mean, I thought Bridgewater, um, might be the team to beat, and then they l- they go and lose to Worcester State, but now Worcester State's lost a couple of games, so this, this conference is pretty topsy-turvy.

It's gonna probably come down to who's left standing by week 11.

Left standing, uh, despite some folks trying to bury them, Hanover.

Bud, tell us about the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference.

Yeah, the MassCAC is a nine-team conference featuring Bridgewater State, Salem State, Anna Maria, Worcester State, Massachusetts Maritime, Westfield State, Fitchburg State, Framingham State, and MCLA.

Bridgewater State won the auto bid in 2026, and there were no at-large bids awarded.

correct and looking at the final npi numbers bridgewater state led the conference at 62 but after that there was a massive drop to salem state all the way down at 196 anna maria at 198 and worcester state at 202 so the mass cac had only one team finished inside the npi top 100 last season and nobody inside the top 50 in fact Bridgewater State was the only team in this conference that even finished inside the top 195 nationally.

Wow.

All right, now let's move on to the CNE, the Conference of New England.

Southern Maine, been there three times, lost twice.

Who is your third?

I feel like I can say just 39 because they resulted in 340 yards, an average of 8.7 yards a carry.

He also scored four touchdowns, and Mass Dartmouth needed just about all of them in a 49 to 40 win at Worcester State on Saturday.

Wilson's a strong guy.

He's like 6'0", 215 or so.

In this case, they were playing in a really big game, like a final four, you know, state tournament game.

It was at Worcester State University.

The coach said things were, were pretty bad throughout, but it kind of culminated when his, uh, really one of his best players, a, a young Black kid, knocked a kid down when he was driving to the basket, uh, which is pretty, [laughs] pretty common in basketball.

It's a physical sport.

I'm a East Coast guy my whole life.

Played Division III small college football, Worcester State, um, University.

Um, I actually had concussions my junior year, so I wasn't able to play football anymore.

Um, but when I was in high school I used to help Pop Warner, so I always kinda had a passion for coaching.

Ah

... because I just had that feeling as a coach.

Um, so I, I got into coaching then at Worcester State, a GA at Fitchburg State, and then I got the privilege to GA at Rutgers, which was 15 minutes from my house.

It was kind of a dream come true, 'cause I grew up rooting for Coach Schiano and Rutgers, so to be able to work there for a few years under Chris Ash was really cool.