Don't put much stock in the doomsday scenarios that have the conference missing out on the 12-team bracket entirely.
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Sunk-Cost Football: UMass’ Faltering Quest to Belong in the FBS
What’s there to lose? That was Nelson Lacey’s thinking in 2011, when the University of Massachusetts Amherst—a consistent force in the second tier of NCAA Division I—decided to make the leap to the premier Football Bowl Subdivision. A professor of finance, Lacey twice co-chaired the school’s faculty athletic council and also helped lead an ad …

