According to multiple reports, UMass and Don Brown are currently in talks to make Don Brown the next head coach of the University of Massachusetts football team. Brown is currently the defensive coordinator at Arizona, where the Wildcats rank 55th in the country in total defense, and 89th in scoring defense. Those stats don’t sound great on the surface, but without him, they’d be much worse. Before he was at Arizona, Brown spent the last decade plus as an FBS defensive coordinator at Maryland, UConn, Boston College, and Michigan.
Before Walt Bell was fired, Brown had reportedly visited Amherst during an Arizona bye week.