Does C-USA have buyout clause for members?

[ponyinNC]

anyone know? If so, how big?

[ponyinNC]

Bueller?

[skyscraper]

This is from the Twitter feed of the Memphis BBall writer today:

DanWolken: Doing some digging, it seems that the schools who joined C-USA in '06 have large buyouts (over $1 mil). Original members can walk for less

[ponyinNC]

great find...thx. wonder if c-usa is scrambling for new , bigger clause like WAC tried to do.

[PonyKai]

I saw ours is 500k. Can't remember where.

[StallionsModelT]

If the offer to make a significant move up the conference came up there would be zero problem getting whatever money we needed to get it done.

[PonyKai]

If the offer to make a significant move up the conference came up there would be zero problem getting whatever money we needed to get it done.

Fact.

[ponyinNC]

was more concered if others wanted to jump ship (aka Houston) ...what their buyout would be.

[skyscraper]

Doing some searching through various archives, found this nugget from a Nov. 2003 article in the DMN about TCU then-possibly leaving CUSA.

The price to leave Conference USA with two years notice is reportedly $ 400,000 plus the negotiated buyout of the school's value to the league's television contract over a four-year period.

Wolken's tweet is the only thing I've seen that could be considered current.

[StallionsModelT]

Houston would also have no problems raising that kind of money. I guess I'm still not convinced that Houston win would be wise to accept a bid to the Mountain West at this point. With all the instability in that conference I'd be pretty leery of what's going on out there. Here's my dream scenario. A new mini SWC.


SMU
TCU
Houston
Tulsa
UTEP
Rice
Tulane
La Tech
New Mexico

with the possibility of adding Baylor at the next round of realignment.

Will never happen but hey...

[EastStang]

Louisville, Cincy and USF got waivers of their buyouts by agreeing to home games with old CUSA teams for a period of years. Army just got a waiver. I remember that TCU was rather bitter about not getting a similar deal which may be why they might not rejoin CUSA.

[Samurai Stang]

Houston would also have no problems raising that kind of money. I guess I'm still not convinced that Houston win would be wise to accept a bid to the Mountain West at this point. With all the instability in that conference I'd be pretty leery of what's going on out there. Here's my dream scenario. A new mini SWC.


SMU
TCU
Houston
Tulsa
UTEP
Rice
Tulane
La Tech
New Mexico

Rice and Tulane are dead weight. The purpose of forming a new conference would be to leave behind these exact schools. New Mexico is at least competitive in basketball.