Thank You Wagner

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Wanted to thank Wagner for schedule us on Oct 29, 2016. Was getting very concerned about not having a true home game in 2016.

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As for specifics about the new additions, Bamford said UMass will receive $1.5 million in guaranteed money from South Carolina for the Oct. 22 game, while paying roughly $310,000-$315,000 to Wagner, an FCS program, to come to Amherst on Oct. 29 of that season.


Bamford said $325,000 of the money from South Carolina will end up going to Appalachian State as a payout for agreeing to move the 2016 matchup out to 2020. That money will be used by Appalachian State to secure an FCS home opponent of its own, a technicality that held up the overall deal, which Bamford said had been in place for three or four weeks, from being announced before Friday.


Additionally, as part of the negotiations with South Carolina, Bamford secured a home-and-home basketball series (http://www.masslive.com/umassbasketball/index.ssf/2015/08/umass_basketball_to_play_home-.html) with the Gamecocks that is tentatively set to begin on the road in Columbia for the 2016-17 season before returning to Amherst in 2017-18. Exact game dates have yet to be established.


http://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/index.ssf/2015/08/umass_ad_ryan_bamford_2016_wil.html#incart_river

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