We had better do it, along with penalties for not doing it, if we want to be relevant in the Division I NCAA Basketball world. Here is a link to an article from the Bowling Green, KY newpaper about the subject and how the league's RPI has dropped since the scheduling requirements were dropped:

http://www.bgdailynews.com/articles/2010...ports2.txt

Little Rock has done better than most conference members on the scheduling front, but last year we obviously did a horrible job on the winning front. Here's a link to the Sun Belt Conference's final RPI rankings, along with the Strength of Schedule rankings. As you can see, we stack up ok on the SOS (best in the league at #166, but still only about midway in Division I), but by winning only six games we sucked on the RPI ranking, and therefore we're still guilty of pulling the league's RPI down:

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_sbelt_Men.html

It is obvious why UNT got relegated to a #15 seed, and why the SBC may be stuck in one of the play-in games if the rest of the league doesn't step it up on scheduling, and teams (obviously including us) don't start winning more and better quality non conference games.

The Conference Spring Meetings start this coming weekend. Hopefully the Presidents, Chancellors, and ADs of the league will wake up and smell the coffee. If not, we might as well get used to being relegated to the bottom of the NCAA. I for one am not too interested in spending my money on a program and league that doesn't aspire to be better than #21 out of 32 in the RPI league rankings.

(05-17-2010 06:20 PM)PTJR Wrote:  We had better do it, along with penalties for not doing it, if we want to be relevant in the Division I NCAA Basketball world. Here is a link to an article from the Bowling Green, KY newpaper about the subject and how the league's RPI has dropped since the scheduling requirements were dropped:

http://www.bgdailynews.com/articles/2010...ports2.txt

Little Rock has done better than most conference members on the scheduling front, but last year we obviously did a horrible job on the winning front. Here's a link to the Sun Belt Conference's final RPI rankings, along with the Strength of Schedule rankings. As you can see, we stack up ok on the SOS (best in the league at #166, but still only about midway in Division I), but by winning only six games we sucked on the RPI ranking, and therefore we're still guilty of pulling the league's RPI down:

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_sbelt_Men.html

It is obvious why UNT got relegated to a #15 seed, and why the SBC may be stuck in one of the play-in games if the rest of the league doesn't step it up on scheduling, and teams (obviously including us) don't start winning more and better quality non conference games.

The Conference Spring Meetings start this coming weekend. Hopefully the Presidents, Chancellors, and ADs of the league will wake up and smell the coffee. If not, we might as well get used to being relegated to the bottom of the NCAA. I for one am not too interested in spending my money on a program and league that doesn't aspire to be better than #21 out of 32 in the RPI league rankings.

Interesting. We had the toughest schedule in the league. Kudos to our coach and AD. The only way to even get close to that goal of 149 SOS, and not have a horrible record, is to schedule like we did. If schools do it by scheduling BCS road games our league record will be even worse going into conference and our RPI will take even a bigger hit. We showed that scheduling home and homes with good midmajors can be done. Be interesting to see if other schools try to take the same approach. I have my doubts that the league will mandate anything. How long did not playing DII schools last?

(05-17-2010 08:35 PM)mjs Wrote:  

(05-17-2010 06:20 PM)PTJR Wrote:  We had better do it, along with penalties for not doing it, if we want to be relevant in the Division I NCAA Basketball world. Here is a link to an article from the Bowling Green, KY newpaper about the subject and how the league's RPI has dropped since the scheduling requirements were dropped:

http://www.bgdailynews.com/articles/2010...ports2.txt

Little Rock has done better than most conference members on the scheduling front, but last year we obviously did a horrible job on the winning front. Here's a link to the Sun Belt Conference's final RPI rankings, along with the Strength of Schedule rankings. As you can see, we stack up ok on the SOS (best in the league at #166, but still only about midway in Division I), but by winning only six games we sucked on the RPI ranking, and therefore we're still guilty of pulling the league's RPI down:

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_sbelt_Men.html

It is obvious why UNT got relegated to a #15 seed, and why the SBC may be stuck in one of the play-in games if the rest of the league doesn't step it up on scheduling, and teams (obviously including us) don't start winning more and better quality non conference games.

The Conference Spring Meetings start this coming weekend. Hopefully the Presidents, Chancellors, and ADs of the league will wake up and smell the coffee. If not, we might as well get used to being relegated to the bottom of the NCAA. I for one am not too interested in spending my money on a program and league that doesn't aspire to be better than #21 out of 32 in the RPI league rankings.

Interesting. We had the toughest schedule in the league. Kudos to our coach and AD. The only way to even get close to that goal of 149 SOS, and not have a horrible record, is to schedule like we did. If schools do it by scheduling BCS road games our league record will be even worse going into conference and our RPI will take even a bigger hit. We showed that scheduling home and homes with good midmajors can be done. Be interesting to see if other schools try to take the same approach. I have my doubts that the league will mandate anything. How long did not playing DII schools last?

You may be right about the league possibly lacking the guts to mandate anything, however we can always hope. Since the meeting starts within the week, we won't have long to wait to find out. We certainly have the right formula for scheduling. Now we just need to bounce back after our bad year on the court.