What NIL money? It was contingent on PAC membership. Nothing publically stated otherwise.
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FBS Independent bound
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Yeah, if they pull a Suck State this will blow up in everyone's face.
Gotta get attendance regularly up to 20k.
Color me skeptical, history doesn't lie.
Not going to find it but in an interview (Sac12 Wood I think) there was a statement that some of the pledges were FBS supportive regardless of landing spot. I personally think the majority of the pledges are more contingent on how the economy holds up vs being Indy and not Pac FBS members.
Nah, we were pulling close to 15k last season. If we are competitive and with more noteworthy names in town in a new stadium, we'll have no problem getting folks to show up. You should know better.
So The Big Mountain podcast is our news source for now. I'm ok with it. Seems like local reporters missed and opportunity here.
But on the topic of FBS independence, it appears that the University thinks they can make a net benefit greater than the $100k the Big Sky was paying them through that media deal. I don't doubt that and when you look at it through that lense, it doesn't seem so risky.
$100,000! That is peanuts, maybe two charter flights to Pocatello and Greeley.
Kadeezy
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Yeah, I though the ESPN+ deal was like 85K-ish per team. Play one game a year at an SEC or BIG school and collect $1.25M.
HornetFootballFan
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Exactly… only getting $100K is BS. Big Sky Commish not doing a good enough job.
$100K and the travel expenses eat all of that up
We will be more fiscally balanced at FBS long term. Once the stadium is built we can have events, concerts etc to generate revenues as well.
HeavyistheClown
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That is why the Montucky schools have their own regional media deal.
No $$$ in televising EWU, UNC, IDSU, etc.
No $$$ in televising EWU, UNC, IDSU, etc.
FootballAlum84
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Manifesting… should the application get approved and we are officially not playoff eligible. Are we still eligible to be conference champions?
Kadeezy
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No, we would be like Delaware and Missouri State last year. Not included in Top 25 voting either.
If we went 8-0 in conference play, the automatic qualifier for the BSC in the FCS playoffs would go to the next team in the BSC standings (with their tiebreaker rules, etc. in place as if we did not exist).
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FootballAlum84
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Got it, so we’ll get to claim a 2017 UCF National Championship.
HornetFootballFan
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Conference champions I believe YES
Playoffs of FCS - I believe we lose that option upon declaring?
Would be nice to have a strong showing against SDSU to open the season.
HornetFootballFan
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Trying to play CFB in modern times on a shoe string budget of a conference revenue of $100K isn’t sustainable.
The FCS has severely undervalued itself to sustain a healthy balance sheet.
FBS is the Future for our program.
HeavyistheClown
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“They have not shown some interest but not great interest”
Is this a riddle?
So they haven’t shown interest?
But not showing great interest?
Is this a riddle?
So they haven’t shown interest?
But not showing great interest?
