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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4917303, member: 27"]
Agree.

Give UMass a couple of choices.

1) Play Syracuse at home in 2024 as a buy game with a big guarantee.  They will make more money doing this than playing Syracuse at home and we all know they desperately need money.

2) Play UMass at Amherst in 2024 provided they agree to two games in Syracuse.

3) Play a one off game at Albany or West Point vs Syracuse in 2024.  Neutral site.  Albany or West Point.  We get 75% of the gate because UMass has no fans.

UMass makes the most money with options 1 and 2.

We shouldn’t play in Amherst without getting 2 home games in return.  Period.

Missouri agreed to a home and home because Missouri didn’t want to give UMass $1.5 million for a buy game.  They are the first P5 team to agree to play them on their campus.

Sounds like UMass might be more flexible on this if we agreed to a home and home with them in basketball.  i don’t see that happening.

If UMass can’t live with any of these options, we have plenty of other options.  Schedule Wake Forest or SMU at home in 2024 (I am sure we will need to schedule an away game as well).  Or go with one of the other openings out there.

I would be really disappointed if we agree to play UMass in a home and home.  No offense, I am sure UMass has a nice campus and the environment at their tiny stadium might well be delightful.

We need to play 7 home games every season we can.  The way to do it is to find schools willing to do 2 for 1s.  If UMass wants to play us, they will have to pay a price to get us to come there.
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