UMass > MAC for all sports in 2025-2026

[ZooCougar]

Teams. It reeks of desperation. Free trips to Cali for the conference, baby, on Sac State.

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.

 

[ArtTheFan]

Yes

Yes on what question?

 

[FightOnCT]

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.

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

 

[Kolumbo]

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

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.

 

[Fishy]

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.

 

[KryHavok]

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.

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? ^_^