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(12-19-2017 11:17 AM)odu09 Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 11:03 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 09:47 AM)757ODU Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 08:49 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 08:32 AM)757ODU Wrote:  Whoever developed their schedule, is a joke. What an embarrassment to their program. How far have they fallen?

Not everything is cut and dried. Ewing was left with nothing and they are going to have a rough conference schedule. The schedule was made to develop young players knowing a tourney appearance is not happening.

If they have the same schedule next year, they need to really reevaluate. I would guess one time thing.

This is a thought I have never understood. If you are in a tough conference...Why wouldn't you challenge yourself before conference play? Throw these young guys into the fire and see what you have.

I couldn't agree with this more.

You will eventually rise or fall to the level of your competition. That is why I believe we should be scheduling the most difficult non con we can every year. You become whatever tier you associate with as long as you are not completely hamstrung by resources like the MEAC, because you learn to play at the level of your competition. You may take some lumps along the way, but in the long run it is for the best.

... and now come the posters who take everything to the extreme to tell me that if we play Kentucky every game we will never be Kentucky.

I just wonder how differently you'd feel if we had St Bonaventure (#2 team in A10 right now according to kenpom) on the schedule instead of Fairfield, like we originally had. It would be a pretty balanced schedule. If we could have beaten Temple in that tournament it would have opened up the chance to play another quality team there. W&M and VCU should always be on the schedule. A tune-up game should always be on the schedule. Towson and JMU were good bonuses, it would be nice to replace JMU with a school that cared more about basketball. NSU on the schedule is good for Norfolk. So in my mind that leaves three spots to improve the schedule (JMU, Richmond, Bowling Green). Richmond is usually good, right? Bowling Green is usually good and we destroyed them, making it not look like a quality opponent. So that just leaves the JMU game to replace with in a perfect world, VaTech or UVA, if they would have us. If not, how about Maryland, WVU. Or a bottom tier ACC school like NC State or Wake.

I would like to have gotten rid of the UMES game. I don't have that much of a problem with our schedule.