Looks about right in my opinion.

(04-27-2018 06:05 AM)T2003 Wrote:  I think it is more realistic to develop your own program and hope to be perfectly positioned for a move or maybe to go independent. If a program can afford it, going independent might be the best approach. The more schools decide to go this route, the better for all of these programs. Schools like USM, Marshall, Ark St, Troy, LA Tech, etc could go independent and play each other regularly somehow...

Play three (or four) money games every year and pocket the money (could be up to $6M a year in additional revenue) - you could hire better coaches and build better facilities over time. You might even land better recruits by playing three SEC/ACC teams every year - recruits love to play these teams. By playing more P5 teams, more upset wins are likely to happen... ok most likely, you wouldn't be playing in many bowl games and may be able to schedule only 5 home games a year, but over time: +6M in additional revenue per year > SBC tv deal + crappy bowl game

That might work as long as the Sun Belt Conference and CUSA allowed those of us that went independent in football to remain conference members for olympic sports, and I doubt either conference would allow it.