Originally Posted by OSU Flyer
I think the way to look at the situation of losing a buy game (aside from the obvious financial impact) is whether or not one game is going to have a significant impact on the tournament profile.
It's worth thinking about
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You are gaining 2, not 1, non-buy games. The idea is to drop 2 buy games in exchange for 2 home and home series, one of those games would be at home and the other away. Adding those 2 non-buy games could maybe be worth as much as a 15 maybe 20? spot improvement in the rpi rankings. In addition, we get 1, maybe 2, quadrant 1 games, an additional opportunity for a quality road win, an improved sos, and 2 more marquee games ever year. We could gain maybe 3-5 spots on the seed, like going from a 7 to maybe at most a 2.
Everybody cries on here all the time about UD not being able to afford to do this, but yet here we are doing a renovation that is in the tens of millions of dollars. IMO, it does not all add up.