(01-27-2020 01:00 AM)templefootballfan Wrote: You want an upward trajectory for BB. Start putting people in the stands
Every school has marketing dept, use it.
Now How does Conn & Mass help, let me count the ways.
Bigger ft print, recruit students,
This is as football affiliates, and they are in a fairly dry area for football recruits ... the farthest north the Top Ten FB recruiting states go up the east coast is New Jersey.
Quote: tues/Wed sch help
Adding one game per week with the way byes are normally organized to allow schools to go from playing later in the week to earlier means maybe one more Saturday game in November ... maybe four or five altogether (since there's also byes for UConn and UMass to take into account). One extra Saturday November game every three years is not a big boost.
Quote: 12 games to sell, prices have gone up. More bowls
12 more games to sell and two more mouths to feed ... with no increase in the CFP base payout and UConn and UMass's OOC performance likely reducing the MAC's share of the performance based pool.
And Bowl tie-ins allowed are based on bowl eligibility, neither UConn nor UMass would help the MAC with getting more bowls.
So basically what you are serving there is a bit of a bit nothing burger.
Now to be sure, it would be nice if the MAC departments punched above their weight in marketing their programs, but that is neither here nor there with respect to FB-affiliate relationships with UConn and UMass.
And most critically, UConn is probably not interested, as they would likely prefer their schedules under independence to what their schedules would be in the MAC.