Fired college football coach's wife takes bitter swipe at former school's roster

The woman of erstwhile UMass caput manager Don Brown has blasted the school's determination to occurrence her hubby aft pointing to its astonishing deficiency of NIL wealth compared to different teams.

Brown was fired by UMass earlier this week aft going 6-28 successful his 2nd stint arsenic caput coach, having antecedently taken complaint from 2004 to 2008. He besides spent clip arsenic a antiaircraft coordinator for the Minutemen from 1998 to 1999.

Saturday's 35-34 nonaccomplishment to the Liberty Flames proved the last straw, with the schoolhouse announcing they had parted institution with the 69-year-old connected Monday.

Yet portion helium departs with a mediocre 2-8 grounds this season, Brown's woman Deborah has fumed that her hubby was really performing miracles with the roster astatine his disposal aft claiming UMass's roster falls good beneath the NIL worth of its rivals.

She wrote connected X: 'The operation of NIL wealth of the teams UMass played this play is simply a combined $48,798,653 cardinal dollars to our $36,000. And we played however galore teams truthful close?!'

One idiosyncratic replied: '360K did you mean? Has to beryllium much than 36K.'

But Deborah confirmed: 'Correct magnitude !'

Other fans were near successful disbelief aft the NIL revelation, with 1 writing: 'Yeah that was a intolerable situation'.

Another said: 'NIL successful its existent signifier is ruining assemblage athletics... UMass volition ever beryllium UMass and ne'er triumph thing meaningful... but this disparity is conscionable gross'.

While 1 simply posted: 'Coach Brown is simply a wizard!!'

Brown has implicit 40 years' coaching acquisition successful assemblage shot aft taking his archetypal occupation arsenic a antiaircraft coordinator for Mansfield backmost successful 1983.

He antecedently served arsenic a DC nether Jim Harbaugh - present caput manager of the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers - for 5 seasons astatine Michigan.