I agree with the bolded statement. I would even go so far as to say it's below the floor we should be getting for a guarantee game.
I don't see how you can say this. The two were clearly negotiated together. We seem to have a pretty easy time getting money games for around a million dollars. What we are not good at is getting home and homes.
If they offered us the following scenario's which would you choose:
1.5 million for a 1 and done road game
1.1 million for a money game plus a home and home agreement.
That may not be a bad deal. As I said, we don't seem to have trouble finding money games. We do seem to struggle to find home and homes. It's not ideal, but it might not be a terrible deal. The bigger problem is our home game is the final game of the series giving them an easy out if they decide to buy us out. If the buyout of that last game is less than 1 million it's probably a really bad deal. I suspect that it's more around the 300k range as others have suggested.