(05-08-2017 08:27 AM)megadrone Wrote:  Or just expand McGuirk to 30K seats. Make sure that 1A is viable first though. IMO that's still up in the air. If there's a long term hope of a conference home, perhaps that should be locked down before a major expansion of McGuirk is planned.

That is the chicken and egg conundrum Umass faces. They spent a good chunk of change on their performance center (and not really that long ago) so that has to be in any footprint they do. To me that limits them a bit. Umass is also leveraged to the hilt, which makes any significant capital spending all but impossible right now as well....

They are still paying the price for Molnar unfortunately (Morris - they guy that did the last couple years of FCS - burned them too) - we should be a few steps farther along in this process by now.

I hate to use the word, but Umass is desperate for a 6 win season to build some hope for the future at this point..... If Umass is not on solid ground and in some kind of commitment for major infrastructure improvement by the end of 2019, then they may as well drop football all together as this will only be a money pit that keeps taking and taking......