again, 10 games per year. You can't fill that on 2-1's, a couple are a good thing and when you take a couple you have to understand that that is going to set you back in terms of home games, it's not sustainable as primary scheduling practice for ten games. Now to your theory, can 4-5 big name home games be more valuable than 6-7? yes, but that is IF you can get four to five big names to come in every year, Right now we struggle, its not like all of OOC games are big, some are Howard and FAMU. You also have to account that leaving the AAC gives up all TV revenu. Are we a big enough name to get our own TV deal? or does going independent mean you give all that up and does the big name games cover that?
It all depends on IF you can consistently get the big names to come here to play. Its basically putting our entire future in the hands of P5 saying "Please sir, play us so we don't die".
It works for them because of their history and name value of their own, you can't look at them and say we can do that too, we can't.