(03-13-2017 10:00 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(03-13-2017 09:20 PM)Penny Lane Wrote:  

(03-13-2017 08:42 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(03-13-2017 05:32 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(03-13-2017 03:07 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  WSU may have the hardest time of any of us non-powers in getting home/home OOC quality games. Sure looks like it.

That's why WSU wants AAC membership - and it is why the AAC should want WSU. The recognized BB conferences - those with schools that seem to get the benefit of a good SOS rating and get NCAA tourney consideration with 18-19 wins & 14-15 losses just through their conference schedule (still can't understand how the SEC has achieved an intrinsically high SOS) . The AAC along with the lesser recognized BB conferences don't get that consideration & have been more & more systematically locked out of competitive OOC home & home games being scheduled. If the AAC wants to be recognized as one of the better BB conferences they have to have schools that justify that recognition. Even worse for WSU & their MVC situation. An WSU addition to the AAC would give the AAC another proven conference member to help offset the weak OOC schedule across the board in the AAC & the down years of current members (like Memphis & UConn currently). Add another BB school too, maybe Dayton or VCU or Gonzaga if they'd bite. But for sure adding any of those schools is a much more confident bet compared to assuming that ECU, USF or Tulane will improve their programs or UH, SMU, UCF or Tulsa will sustain their recent success.

GP was talking about it this afternoon. Evidently, the Illinois State coach today called out the NCAA committee and the P5 conferences. Says the committee penalizes mid-majors by saying they didn't play anyone. But says no one will play them. He claims to have put out calls to the entire P5 last year for a game, and got straight no's. So they say you haven't played any P5's, but the P5 won't play you.

Same thing we're running into. Our home schedule stinks, but it's not for lack of trying.

They should file a what could be a landmark lawsuit. They certainly have damages in the form of lost NCAA tourney shares. Seems to me it could be class action if every schools not P5 joined in.

No. Not really.

Yea. Really-not class action but schools who can document what they did along with subpoenaed records from selection committee.