Quote Originally Posted by Sitting Bull View Post
I always see the arguments that revenue increases when a school moves FCS to FBS.

What is usually ignored is the expense line, which also goes up considerably.

in the end, on the examples I have seen, the actual gap in money lost grows. No one makes money in either Division outside a few of the extreme power teams.

The majority of such analysis always bake in best case scenarios to boot.

Money aside, the biggest drawback I see is the ridiculous conference line-ups one has to deal with to move up.

One only has has to look at the absolute insanity of UMass to see what is sacrificed for such a move. I don't know who is footing this bill, I assume the tax payer and possibly Mr. Kraft, though being a businessman, I can't imagine he will continue placing big money bets on this nag. Even after three years of this move, their largest crowd last year, or certainly close, was their game against former CAA rival Maine.

It is amusing to me that most of the schools that wish to make the jump are those who have never been there before. Schools like the ones we are fans of HAVE and have little interest in returning.