Folks aren't too thrill with the OC home schedule


11/01/13 vs. Oklahoma City
11/04/13 vs. Southeastern Oklahoma
11/08/13 vs. Northwood
Coaches vs. Cancer Classic - Opening Round
11/11/13 at Oklahoma
11/14/13 vs. Nicholls State
Coaches vs. Cancer Classic - Second Round
11/21/13 vs. Columbia Portland, OR
11/22/13 vs. Idaho Portland, OR
11/23/13 at Portland
11/26/13 vs. Incarnate Word
11/30/13 vs. Southeastern Louisiana
12/04/13 at BYU
12/15/13 vs. Stephen F. Austin
12/17/13 vs. Central Arkansas
12/21/13 vs. Wayland Baptist
12/31/13 at Texas A&M
01/04/14 vs. UC Riverside
01/09/14 vs. Southern Miss *
01/11/14 vs. Tulane *
01/16/14 at Marshall *
01/18/14 at Charlotte *
01/23/14 vs. UAB *
01/25/14 vs. Middle Tennessee *
02/01/14 at Tulsa *
02/06/14 at Rice *
02/08/14 at Louisiana Tech *
02/13/14 vs. Old Dominion * The Super Pit TBA
02/15/14 vs. East Carolina *
02/20/14 at FIU *
02/22/14 at Florida Atlantic *
02/27/14 at UTSA *
03/02/14 vs. UTEP *
03/06/14 vs. Tulsa * The Super Pit TBA
Conference USA Tournament
03/12/14 C-USA Tournament First Round El Paso, TX TBA

It's the worst I've seen in a long time. God, I hate Benford so much. It's like he thinks he can erase the complete dismantling of our basketball program by scheduling only Div-II, NAIA or whatever else lesser programs are out there. DISPITE THE FACT THAT HE LOST TO ONE IN TOURNAMENT LAST YEAR.

So, so frustrating.

A Coach Doh home slate, lovely.

This is one of the worst OOC schedules I've ever seen.

CUSA needs to ban schools from scheduling Non-Division I programs.

Is that 5 DII programs?

wow...

At least you've got one power house coming to town the day after valentines.

WTF is that? Crap like isn't helping us become a 2-3 bid conference.

At least you'll have a bunch of wins (hopefully...) to start off conference play.

But yeah, it really doesn't help us any if we play crap Division 2 schools (AND NAIA TEAMS TOO, MIDDLE TENNESSEE SCHEDULING STAFF).

That is awful.

(09-18-2013 11:47 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  That is awful.

You're being too kind.

I'm hoping some of the AD's that actually care about basketball put some pressure on Banowsky to implement some scheduling standards. If we don't, we'll be a 1 bid conference most seasons.

Playing schedules like this hurts the entire conference, not just the team that schedules games like this.

Yeah I mean ours isn't the best schedule ever, but dang.

(09-18-2013 02:51 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Yeah I mean ours isn't the best schedule ever, but dang.

It is painful

(09-18-2013 02:51 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Yeah I mean ours isn't the best schedule ever, but dang.

...just remember....she's got the jack....we are he.....we are in a hole

(09-18-2013 02:43 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(09-18-2013 11:47 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  That is awful.

You're being too kind.

I'm hoping some of the AD's that actually care about basketball put some pressure on Banowsky to implement some scheduling standards. If we don't, we'll be a 1 bid conference most seasons.

Playing schedules like this hurts the entire conference, not just the team that schedules games like this.

I had always wondered why CUSA didn't get scheduling agreements with the MAC, A10, CAA, MVC, Sun Belt and MWC. At least every team in those conferences would get some decent home games and then everybody could get rid of those DII's, DIII's and NAIA games. It makes makes more sense for ECU to play home and away games against Delaware, JMU, Indiana State, Drexel, VCU or Richmond; than to play a bunch of schools like UVA-Wise, Mount Olive, Chowan, North Carolina Wesleyan, etc. Playing the DII's, DIII's and NAIA does not hurt the league's RPI, but those lower level schools can not be much help getting CUSA schools ready for conference play.

maybe UNT got turned down by some SEC schools like Tech did?

(09-18-2013 03:29 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  maybe UNT got turned down by some SEC schools like Tech did?

Understand it was the only way to get needed number of home games.

I mean, this is really embarrassing.

(09-18-2013 03:29 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  maybe UNT got turned down by some SEC schools like Tech did?

No. I don't believe that this new coaching regime wants anything to do with playing teams that will expose them. Unless a DRAMATIC turnaround happens this season, we've got a bona fide dumpster fire on our hands.

Ours isn't where we want it but damn that is awful. The conference needs to step in and keep this from happening again.

If he is worried about getting exposed playing UTEP, Tulsa, Marshall, UAB, USM, Charlotte, and ECU will take care of that for him.