UMass > MAC for all sports in 2025-2026

[ArtTheFan]

I just heard that UMass might get a win next year in the MAC...SAC State is rumored to join the MAC next year. Heard it on YouTube. Any thoughts on it?

 

[ArtTheFan]

Nothing screams MidAmerica like Sacramento

True...It is as crazy as Stanford and Cal in the Atlantic Coast Conference...🤣

At least UMass might get a win if they play SacState next year... 🤣

 

[JVN]

Not a rumor any more

 

[Windham4th]

Does Vegas have a line on which athletic department collapses first? My bet is Sac State.

 

[Vowelguy]

Let's get no revenue and pay gobs of $$ ....

.... to get into the MAC

With the hope that someday in a decade or two we might get an invite .... to the MW.

Interesting choice.

 

[ZooCougar]

Does Vegas have a line on which athletic department collapses first? My bet is Sac State.

Maybe on Kalshi or Polymarket which is where 20 something dudes go to lose their money.

 

[ZooCougar]

This looks worse every time I see it.

 

[ZooCougar]

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Not a rumor any more

I can only imagine what it would cost to fly ~100 players, about a dozen or so coaches and another twenty staff members six times next fall. It's a good thing they're getting no revenue to defray some of these costs.

 

[Rufus]

Nothing screams MidAmerica like Sacramento

It is in the middle............of the west coast.

 

[Rufus]

I wonder which conferences Sac State targeted ahead of the MAC? The MAC would have been stupid to say no to that deal. I think some other conferences probably should have accepted that deal and didn't.

Time for the BALL SAC game.

 

[JVN]

Sac State president explaining why they made the move

Why would Sacramento State spend tens of millions to join the MAC? 'It is putting the university on the map'

The total price for Sac State's move stands to exceed $25 million. All of this to compete in a division where its budget will be dwarfed. It's left so many inside and outside of college athletics asking a question: Why?

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