I would hope that we get more than $500K from UC. When they cancelled with WKU at the same time it came out that UC paid WKU a $500K cancellation fee. Some newspaper or website assumed that our cancellation fee was in that ballpark. But the key difference is that we had already played at UC while WKU had not played a game yet on their contract. The UC game effectively is now a buy game. They SHOULD owe us more than $500K if that's the case. It should be approximately a cancellation fee plus the cost of a buy game. But I have no idea. If we get the same as WKU I actually have to say that's a "breach of fiduciary responsibility".
Ohio's non-conference schedule for decades has almost always been a pay-out game (P5), a pay-in game (FCS), the home end of a home-and-home, and the road end of a home-and-home. We essentially played two buy games when we played UC and didn't know that at the time.
We raised season ticket prices and Ohio season ticket holders are used to 6 home games. But now at some point we either need to play 5 home games, with a second buy game where these might be getting harder to find when P4 play 9 conference games, or use the UC fee to buy a second home game, which probably means two FCS opponents which is something FBS teams almost never do.
We can kick that decision down the road a few times if every year we add a new home-and-home series and always get the home game first. But that extra future road game is always hanging out there further in the future if we do that and we'll have to deal with it someway at some point.
Last Edited: 3/8/2025 12:52:54 PM by Victory