(04-13-2014 06:31 PM)Rik Flair Wrote:  The same for UMASS, they can be football only, but it will cost them $500k.

You mean, $500,000 out of the extra $1m CFP money they bring from raising the Sunbelt to 12 from 11?

Is that instead of or in addition to the four BBall games deal that the MAC had with their two eastern FB-only schools (they also had the four FB deal with Temple when Temple was FB-only in the MAC).

Actually, the Sunbelt might be able to land the BBall games if there are enough schools that really want them without adding UMass by allowing Sunbelt schools that schedule paired home and home with UMass FB & BBall (home FB when away BBall and visa versa) scheduling flexibility to play those games between mid-October and mid-November. That kind of scheduling flexibility would be the critical element UMass would need to play as an independent, and they don't have any leverage to get it on their own.

Then if more than four Sunbelt schools wanted to take up that option, those games could be doled out on a most recently played stands at the back of the line basis. And any school that doesn't want to travel to either Boston or Amherst could just give it a miss.