(09-04-2017 08:15 AM)Steve1981 Wrote:  

(09-03-2017 08:00 PM)Kittonhead Wrote:  My advice to UMass is to get a breakaway CUSA conference started.

Tie in with some better recruiting grounds, win some conference titles.

Id sacrifice basketball for it.

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Well kittonhead, the Calipari play anyone, anywhere motto would compensate for a weak BB conference. That said, don't see CUSA splitting anytime soon. So we'll solder on and continue to work on our issues. We do play one of those teams Saturday, ODU. (-: Then on the road for Temple and Tennessee, and then guess who's coming to town. OHIO!

8 schools and a national TV deal.

Conference do-do

UMass
Marshall
Liberty
ODU
Charlotte
Georgia St
FAU
FIU

Split the G money only 8 ways. Split the autobids only 8 ways. Add a national TV deal.

If UMass could be in the top 2-3 every year in Cdo-do that might do it for the alums. It might at least be possible to win a conference title in a smaller conference like that.

Then in basketball UMass can compensate by playing a national schedule in the non-conference if it wanted featuring local powers (UConn, BC, Providence). Only a 14 game conference basketball schedule in Cdo-do so there would be room. UMass could pull a New Mexico State and dominate the conference too.

Another thought, to get to 10 in basketball invite Albany and Stony Brook from the American East to give UMass travel partners.