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ZooCougar said:
Because they are paying over $20M plus travel for everyone else to play in the MAC.

It’s like some guys throwing a keg party but you only get to come if you pay for everything.
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You are mocking Sac State because they are paying $20 million, as if that is some major hassle. UConn paid millions to get out of the AAC and paid millions to join the new big east. big deal. and Sac State was already paying teams to travel. Maybe you are forgetting they now get to play more FBS programs not in the MAC.
 
Kolumbo said:
You are mocking Sac State because they are paying $20 million, as if that is some major hassle. UConn paid millions to get out of the AAC and paid millions to join the new big east. big deal. and Sac State was already paying teams to travel. Maybe you are forgetting they now get to play more FBS programs not in the MAC.
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False equivalence and Nelson level bad faith arguing there.


They are paying much more than that.

They are basically doing the equivalent of picking up the travel budget of another FBS team.

Every time I look at it, gets worse. It’s the most destructive, desperate and wasteful thing I have ever seen in college sports.
 
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huskymedic said:
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As long as midweek MACtion exists, there is a less than zero chance that we join football only.

Iirc their tv contract with ESPN is up for renewal after this season. If they get a (sizeable) bump and remove the midweek games then I can see a path as long as we get a full share.
 
ZooCougar said:
False equivalence and Nelson level bad faith arguing there.


They are paying much more than that.

They are basically doing the equivalent of picking up the travel budget of another FBS team.

Every time I look at it, gets worse. It’s the most destructive, desperate and wasteful thing I have ever seen in college sports.
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You can false equivalence all you want. The situations aren't the same but they are similar in that change comes with a steep price tag. Sac State is paying to elevate its program. We can debate whether UConn's change was good or bad for its football program all day long. Bottom line we paid a lot of money to leave a very good football conference which turned out to be a stepping stone for Cinci, Houston and UCF. The more I look at Sac State's situation, the better it seems for Sac State. They are only the 8th FBS program in yuge state of California. That's a pretty good neighborhood.
 
ZooCougar said:
They are basically doing the equivalent of picking up the travel budget of another FBS team.
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Teams. It reeks of desperation. Free trips to Cali for the conference, baby, on Sac State.
 
Alum86 said:
Teams. It reeks of desperation. Free trips to Cali for the conference, baby, on Sac State.
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When you add it all together it’s like having twice the travel budget.

It’s simply the dumbest thing I have ever seen in college sports.

At least SMU had donors backstopping them. Sac State has only pledges.

And the whole thing couid be a big failed real estate grift for the Ssc State’s President’s brother.
 
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Kolumbo said:
You are mocking Sac State because they are paying $20 million, as if that is some major hassle. UConn paid millions to get out of the AAC and paid millions to join the new big east. big deal. and Sac State was already paying teams to travel. Maybe you are forgetting they now get to play more FBS programs not in the MAC.
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It is a major hassle when you are a California state school with a notorious budgeting crisis spending heaps of money to join the worst FBS conference where you will be traveling across half of the country.

The whole process is a disaster. This wasn’t an issue for Delaware, MO State, or even NDSU who’s joining the Mountain West
 
FightOnCT said:
It is a major hassle when you are a California state school with a notorious budgeting crisis spending heaps of money to join the worst FBS conference where you will be traveling across half of the country.

The whole process is a disaster. This wasn’t an issue for Delaware, MO State, or even NDSU who’s joining the Mountain West
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Sure flying's a hassle but everyone's doing it. NDSU, Northern Illinois, Cal, Stanford, Texas State, Oregon, Washington. Once you're on a plane what's an extra few hours. They moved up wedged into a conference.
 
Well, the numbers were faked.

Quick update on the economic impact numbers some of you took as gospel.

Turns out that the company that Sac State hired to make up numbers made up numbers and gave them to Sac State who took the fake numbers and created even more fake numbers.

In a nutshell, as was stated, all of this is make believe. There’s no money in this move.

Also…..

“As for the ballyhooed $50 million supposedly spread out over 10 years contingent on Pac-12 membership raised by a group dubbed "Sac-12," it's unlikely much of that money is coming.”

I would love to sell stuff to some of you.
 
Fishy said:
Well, the numbers were faked.

Quick update on the economic impact numbers some of you took as gospel.

Turns out that the company that Sac State hired to make up numbers made up numbers and gave them to Sac State who took the fake numbers and created even more fake numbers.

In a nutshell, as was stated, all of this is make believe. There’s no money in this move.
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So all this is just a lot of smoke of mirrors from Sac State. Such a sound financial plan they put together...might they by chance have any former Rutty personnel in their AD? ^_^
 
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To the actual topic of UMass, they are currently 8th in the MAC and could very well miss the MAC tourney (only top 8 teams are invited)
 
ZooCougar said:
This game alone would generate a trillion dollars. Can’t believe it hasn’t been scheduled yet.

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It will never happen because the media hype for the game would totally eclipse anything else in college football until the playoffs, totally devaluing the rest of the season.
 
CL82 said:
It will never happen because the media hype for the game would totally eclipse anything else in college football until the playoffs, totally devaluing the rest of the season.
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Do they care? They still get the viewers for the game.
At the same time, I think the interest level is being overrated. I watch obscene amounts of college football and I wouldn’t miss pretty much anything fun or important to watch this matchup. Great idea though, especially if they need a game.
 
FightOnCT said:
To the actual topic of UMass, they are currently 8th in the MAC and could very well miss the MAC tourney (only top 8 teams are invited)
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The good thing for UMass is that no one cares either way save for the 100 fans they have left. It's like the administration there is intentionally trying to crush their athletic dept first by moving to the MAC so there is less interest and then second by losing tons of games in both football and hoops. They had the 1996 UMass Final Four team at a game recently to celebrate the 30 year anniversary and those guys must have thought they were in the wrong place at halftime of a conference game vs Buffalo. UMass best hope at this point is to get like a 5 year run of Bob Hurley & Nate Oates before they move to another program and play in front of 2,000 to 5,000 (when they have free t shirts or give away tickets) fans
 
Kolumbo said:
It's not unfair at all. UConn was successful because it jumped right into the Big East and yes, it had a brand new stadium. The Big East was probably the biggest factor. In hindsight the stadium should have been built on campus. The off campus stadium and being independent are now the biggest handicaps.
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To say this as if the Big East's football wing wasn't already the target of derision by of the rest of AQs by the time we joined is freaking hysterical
 
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greenday61892 said:
To say this as if the Big East's football wing wasn't already the target of derision by of the rest of AQs by the time we joined is freaking hysterical
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This makes no sense. Point out which part of this true statement is making you giggle.
 
Kolumbo said:
This makes no sense. Point out which part of this true statement is making you giggle.
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Was or was the Big East not already looked at as the clear dead weight amongst the rest of the AQ conferences by the time we joined?
 
greenday61892 said:
Was or was the Big East not already looked at as the clear dead weight amongst the rest of the AQ conferences by the time we joined?
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It may have been but the Big East was still a BCS conference and looking back it was a great regional football conference. It absolutely made a huge difference for UConn. We would take back that old Big East Football conference in a heartbeat.
 
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