(09-10-2016 12:33 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  And for some reason you already have 2 buy-games scheduled with lower-level P5s after 2020 (Indiana & Colorado), which makes no sense for an indy that is struggling to find enough home games. Why would you waste a valuable away game on such a low profile opponent with no home game in return?

But one away buy game buys one home buy FCS game with plenty of money to spare if a sweetener is needed for some of the other contracts.

Six Go5 H/H gives 3 home games, 1 P5 away buy game, one FCS qualified home buy game brings it to 4 (though UMass has to be real careful in this strategy that the FCS school is an FBS qualifier) ... AFAIU, if all four are on campus, they can still use Gillette to count as one home game, which for a certain range of P5 schools increases the hope of filling that date. With four games to work with to get one more home game, there's also flexibility to use 1-2's to fill that.