(08-30-2022 12:14 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  In looking at PSU's schedules for the past few years, they're par for the course for a power conference program in terms of structure, particularly for the leagues like the Big Ten, ACC and Big East that have 20-game conference schedules.

The sport has definitely changed where these non-contributing majors can draft off the success of others' hard work within the conference. It's not the schools putting out to get these games, or, at least, it's not without help from the conference and networks. That part is where I opine about the unfairness. This is along those lines of where these near-irrelevant majors can become almost national programs because of their conference affiliation and market reach. Yeah, schools like Penn State, Nebraska, Rutgers, and Northwestern still have to actually put into the sport some sort of investment, but their conference's television deal certainly does its share of the work for these guys, imo. Same goes for any of the majors. The reach is there for the taking.

Quote:The flip side of that is, I don't think anyone connected to Villanova or Pitt or Temple or even St Joes is bemoaning the lack of Penn State games on their schedule.

I suspect that even as bad as PSU is, if you bag 'em, you get the NET metric benefits from that. Gold star sticker if you do it at BJC.

(08-31-2022 02:38 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(08-30-2022 12:14 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  In looking at PSU's schedules for the past few years, they're par for the course for a power conference program in terms of structure, particularly for the leagues like the Big Ten, ACC and Big East that have 20-game conference schedules.

The sport has definitely changed where these non-contributing majors can draft off the success of others' hard work within the conference. It's not the schools putting out to get these games, or, at least, it's not without help from the conference and networks. That part is where I opine about the unfairness. This is along those lines of where these near-irrelevant majors can become almost national programs because of their conference affiliation and market reach. Yeah, schools like Penn State, Nebraska, Rutgers, and Northwestern still have to actually put into the sport some sort of investment, but their conference's television deal certainly does its share of the work for these guys, imo. Same goes for any of the majors. The reach is there for the taking.

Quote:The flip side of that is, I don't think anyone connected to Villanova or Pitt or Temple or even St Joes is bemoaning the lack of Penn State games on their schedule.

I suspect that even as bad as PSU is, if you bag 'em, you get the NET metric benefits from that. Gold star sticker if you do it at BJC.

True--Penn State might be worth playing just because of their SOS, which boosts your SOS based metrics.