Quote: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.

Although it'd be a sacrifice in some ways in bball, I think UMass though may be hanging on the past tooo much on bball, as they aren't as good as they used to be in the past. Sure, a lesser conference -- but if you win CUSA much easier, or fall just short but with a tough OOC schedule with some wins -- you'll make the NCAAs easier.

I think the main thing is for football is that they need to get a good coach. And have some $$ for investment into it... and once rolling bowl-eligible for a few years, then join a conference. They could go back to the MAC with joining bball -- get stuff going there, and then look for an opening in the AAC (which I assume is their main Goal), once a couple teams get plucked to the B12. But time's running out, IMO, when it comes to getting things churning to join AAC.