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Not that it will a ton of money but does anyone know if they include any conference bowl revenue into the FY'14 figures? I admit I don't know what the university's fiscal year end is so I'm not sure if they are preparing this report for this year's season or the projected FY'15 are for football ...

I remember reading an article interviewing Andrew Luck's dad, the AD at West Virginia a few years ago. They were piloting beer sales inside the stadium in an effort mainly to keep kids from overconsuming and reduce police incidents. At the time he said it added $700K to their top line and reduced ...

So here's my question regarding tailgating. Where do we imagine the students are going to be doing their thing? If they aren't allowed on the grass to the east of the stadium and they aren't allowed to keep their cars in the yellow/purple lots what will they do? Stay in the dorms until kickoff? If ...

This may be a dumb question but is this a tournament style pricing plan, i.e. the $25 for upper levels gets you tix for both the noon game and the early evening game?

So I'd be paying $50 for 4 games in two days or is it $25/game, each day?

I don't think NJ is necessarily wrong though. Without the football team who would really know about the school other than "okay its a state so there's got to be some kind of college there and its probably named University of Hawaii but...?" I mean without football Chaminade would get more press than ...

It looks like every week 4 preseason game is on the 28th. Cruz will be playing (or more like attending) the game against the Pats in NY and Ihedigbo will be in Buffalo. I'm not sure how jam packed the week prior to week 1 is but at least he isn't playing that weekend. So I suppose it is possible one ...

It looks like the max wager is $1,000. Still, a grand that we won't win by 11 points? I'd seriously consider playing that.

Is it ever too early to talk lines? So I saw that CG Technology (formerly Cantor gaming) put out a line for each game of the opening weekend. And to my astonishment they have us -11... No clue what they know but i'm tempted to put my house on BC for that game, haha. They have BC winning 5 games all ...

Econ my guess is that we'll play the MAC schedule since we are there until AFTER the 2015 season.

So yes, there is some pressure to start winning more than 1 game a year but we have more than just this fall. I wouldn't call it unfair pressure however. The guy knew exactly what he was walking into ...

It doesn't look like I can see/read the whole thing as my work blocks parts of websites seemingly at random (sometimes they allow streaming, sometimes they don't) but the article in that link is dated May 7th 2013. Is there an update to it or did they date it wrong?

There has been some talk on the Maroon Musket regarding new turf at McGuirk. It looks like this is indeed something the University is working on. On their construction site, there is an open bid for updated turf for the football field.

http://www.umass.edu/procurement/Construction%20Bids/FY14 ...

with the amount of attention its getting maybe espn gives us another televised game, gives them something to talk about for the entire pregame.

Travel costs in the AAC would be considerably more.

Is that true though? So the expensive trips are Florida's (which baseball and softball do now anyway) Tulsa, Tulane, SMU and Houston. Cincy and Memphis are a wash with what we'd have in the MAC and UConn and Temple are closer. Baskeball goes ...

Not to mention a spot in the AAC with teams like SMU and UCF and USF, in my opinion, keeps you in the running for whatever the next evolution of the playoff system comes. I would think those Florida schools with the talent in their backyard and a Dallas connection wouldn't be left out.

I get what ...

I'm still buoyed by what Whipple said when asked. If they were discussing this at the time of his interview and it was a real possibliity would he have signed on to coach a team that was going to either close up shop (the death knell Mark W mentioned) or is moving back down? I think the answer is no ...