Originally Posted by
zharkins
You set me straight? I was WAY wrong on my assumptions?
I simply stated facts that Baylor was paying us $500K in 2020 and that was the equivalent to about half of a payout in return for the 2 for 1 setup. You tell me what is better? A home and home with South Alabama/Bowling Green/UNLV and a $1.1 million payday at a P5, or hosting a real team once in a while and giving up the $500K in guarantee hoping you can recoup some of that in selling tickets to Baylor fans, increasing season ticket sales, and increasing LTAC donations (although it probably won't all add up to make up the entire difference). I know I know, a real AD should get LSU to come to Ruston on a home and home. I know where your bar is set.
As for NC State, you guessing that maybe, just maybe they might cancel the last game of the three game contract is just you pulling assumptions out of nowhere to justify your lack of an informed opinion. Otherwise you'd have to admit that a $1.1 million guarantee from a P5 opponent we can beat, followed by a straight home and home with that same P5 opponent is actually a good deal. I don't have the contract in front of me, but it certainly would have a cancellation penalty if you are concerned about that. I already have contracts from our guarantee games at Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas Tech and if either party backed out of those games, the team cancelling owed the other the full guarantee amount. In home and homes with UMass and Texas A&M, the cancellation penalty was $500K. Even our game vs FCS foe South Carolina State had a $500K cancellation penalty (even though we only paid $325K to host them). So it would be fair to say that if NC State cancelled on us, they would write us a check for at least $500K.