I am confused by the talk about the "unwieldy" basketball conference at 16 teams. The simplest answer would be to just add another game or two to the 18 game conference schedule for however many you add to that side. Is there a rule I'm not aware of that would prevent us from playing 19 or 20 conference basketball games?
(11-13-2010 07:12 AM)Cali4nia Card Wrote: [ -> ]I am confused by the talk about the "unwieldy" basketball conference at 16 teams. The simplest answer would be to just add another game or two to the 18 game conference schedule for however many you add to that side. Is there a rule I'm not aware of that would prevent us from playing 19 or 20 conference basketball games?
I've never understood this either.
I know that for the coaches it's about the schedule & the ability to control your own schedule. It seems that if it was okay for UConn to play Louisville as a preium OOC game before 2005-06, it should be okay to play Louisville in conference on an 18, 20, or even 22 game schedule. There are enough power teams in this conference to have premium matchups without necessarily going OOC. The weaker teams don't necessarily want power matchups, but maybe they can play each other too.
For the life of me, I can't see why an 18 game schedule doesn't leave enough room to pad the schedule with whomever you want. For some, it may be a financial thing. I think that Syracuse had 19 home games last year. It's tricky to do that when you're committed to 9 away games on you conference schedule & that only gets worse as the conference schedule gets bigger.
(11-13-2010 07:12 AM)Cali4nia Card Wrote: [ -> ]I am confused by the talk about the "unwieldy" basketball conference at 16 teams. The simplest answer would be to just add another game or two to the 18 game conference schedule for however many you add to that side. Is there a rule I'm not aware of that would prevent us from playing 19 or 20 conference basketball games?
In a league where bb is on equal footing with football, powerful bb coaches believe an 18-game conference schedule is too much and have been lobbying hard to get it down to 16.
Expansion beyond 16 means this won't likely happen. Unless of course expansion stops with TCU and Nova or TCU and Temple for football only. That means 17 all-sports teams playing each other once a season.
This is an example of what I meant a few days ago when I posted, sure all 16 have unanimously voted to expand football to 10 but that it means different things to different schools.
Cheers,
Neil