11-07-2017, 10:44 PM
Coach Rowe was kind of vague today when asked why they have scheduled a game against a D3 team to open the season and why they have a D2 exhibition in the middle of the regular season on Dec 27th.
Does anyone have any insight?
It doesn’t make any sense to me and Rowe wasn’t willing to reveal the reasons. He offered up “one of the biggest games we played last year was against D3 EMU” , “we had some scheduling things...” , “there were some reasons that we did It this way” and “If I had it to do over again I would have liked another exhibition game”
The D3 opener doesn’t even count in official NCAA statistics so while it is allowed to be termed a regular season game, it has no benefit. Why wouldn’t that be scheduled as an exhibition and then another OOC game be scheduled for legitimate competition sometime between Nov 10th and Dec 3rd? I believe it is part of the exempt tournament games even though it isn’t in the Bahamas and that window for the 4th game must be within 2 weeks either side of the actual Bahamas tournament.
The D2 exhibition in late December is a head scratcher too. What is the point of playing an exhibition against a D2 after you have already played 12 regular season games.
Does anyone have any insight?
It doesn’t make any sense to me and Rowe wasn’t willing to reveal the reasons. He offered up “one of the biggest games we played last year was against D3 EMU” , “we had some scheduling things...” , “there were some reasons that we did It this way” and “If I had it to do over again I would have liked another exhibition game”
The D3 opener doesn’t even count in official NCAA statistics so while it is allowed to be termed a regular season game, it has no benefit. Why wouldn’t that be scheduled as an exhibition and then another OOC game be scheduled for legitimate competition sometime between Nov 10th and Dec 3rd? I believe it is part of the exempt tournament games even though it isn’t in the Bahamas and that window for the 4th game must be within 2 weeks either side of the actual Bahamas tournament.
The D2 exhibition in late December is a head scratcher too. What is the point of playing an exhibition against a D2 after you have already played 12 regular season games.