[Mick]

Sac State is paying the NCAA to move up to FBS.  NCAA is requiring it to have a conference invite.  Pac-12 and MWC did not give it a sniff, so it is paying $18M to the Ohio-based MAC (with teams in Michigan, Indiana, NY, and Mass) for a 5-year term.  I'm sure they will be receiving less TV money than Stanford is from the ACC to offset the cost of cross-country travel.  Will they be able to travel charter?  Flying commercial from Sacramento to MAC towns will be brutal.
(Amherst, MA; Athens, OH; Mt. Pleasant, MI, etc). 

For those who can access The Athletic:


https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7047451...rId=103451

Those flights are going to be brutal and expensive. Six months out, a flight from Sacramento to Bay City, Michigan (closest airport to Central Michigan) is an eight hour flight connecting through O'Hare, $659.  Then a half hour drive to campus. Or you could fly direct to Detroit, no layover, 5 hours in the air, two hour drive from the airport on roads considerably worse than California's.

[Mick]

Sac State is paying the NCAA to move up to FBS.  NCAA is requiring it to have a conference invite.  Pac-12 and MWC did not give it a sniff, so it is paying $18M to the Ohio-based MAC (with teams in Michigan, Indiana, NY, and Mass) for a 5-year term.  I'm sure they will be receiving less TV money than Stanford is from the ACC to offset the cost of cross-country travel.  Will they be able to travel charter?  Flying commercial from Sacramento to MAC towns will be brutal.
(Amherst, MA; Athens, OH; Mt. Pleasant, MI, etc). 

For those who can access The Athletic:


https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7047451...rId=103451

Those flights are going to be brutal and expensive. Six months out, a flight from Sacramento to Bay City, Michigan (closest airport to Central Michigan) is an eight hour flight connecting through O'Hare, $659.  Then a half hour drive to campus. Or you could fly direct to Detroit, no layover, 5 hours in the air, two hour drive from the airport on roads considerably worse than California's.