(03-08-2014 11:29 AM)john01992 Wrote:  is this allowed per ncaa rules?

The Big XII does it with WVU...

That will really hurt Temple, we are locked in with La Salle, Penn, St. Joes and Villanova already... Add in the Coaches vs Cancer and you already have 6 ooc games locked in before you even look for other opponents.

This is a monumentally bad idea.

I'm shocked this idea didn't get pus back from the likes of UConn and Memphis and Cincy. How did Aresco manage to pass this?

UConn plays 6 schools annually OOC and always has. Th8is leaves them with 3 local cupcakes at best.

This really makes no sense at all for UConn.

This year UConn had Maryland, Boston College, Indiana, Harvard, Florida, Stanford and Washington. It owes games to both some of these teams (Florida and Stanford) and other teams from the recent past. It had home and homes with Indiana, Texas, North Carolina and Arizona in the recent past.

Why would the AAC office intentionally destroy a school's ability to schedule marquee OOC matchups with national interest (which is what's going to happen when UConn shaves its top OOC schedule from 6 to 4 so that it can schedule its annual New England rivalries against 4 or 5 low majors who visit Storrs?

This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

(03-08-2014 01:23 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

And SMU. But you've forgotten about the team that beat you twice this year already, haven't you?

(03-08-2014 01:26 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:23 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

And SMU. But you've forgotten about the team that beat you twice this year already, haven't you?

I was speaking more to the perennial BB powers. UConn, Cincy and Memphis are the elite hoops programs in this league with a lot of history. But yes Larry Brown is doing a great job and you guys should be top 10-15 next year. Congrats again on beating us this year.

(03-08-2014 01:23 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

Not really. It doesn't require you to schedule additional quality teams - it just requires you to schedule fewer cupcakes.

Plus, you're assured of getting 2 games against the best AAC teams, which wasn't a slam dunk (especially for a southern team like SMU).
I understand downsides to it - U Conn would probably prefer a home game against Vermont or whomever than an extra game against Tulane or whomever.
But it shouldn't affect the SOS, as long as you trade out the Vermonts and not the good ooc teams you play.

Terrible idea...doubt it happens.

(03-08-2014 01:36 PM)DrBox Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:23 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

Not really. It doesn't require you to schedule additional quality teams - it just requires you to schedule fewer cupcakes.

Plus, you're assured of getting 2 games against the best AAC teams, which wasn't a slam dunk (especially for a southern team like SMU).
I understand downsides to it - U Conn would probably prefer a home game against Vermont or whomever than an extra game against Tulane or whomever.
But it shouldn't affect the SOS, as long as you trade out the Vermonts and not the good ooc teams you play.

We rely on our Vermonts for local competition, especially in a very spread out conference like the AAC. If we trade out the Vermonts, then we are no longer playing any regional teams the entire year (save Temple). That's a problem.

(03-08-2014 01:36 PM)DrBox Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:23 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

Not really. It doesn't require you to schedule additional quality teams - it just requires you to schedule fewer cupcakes.

Plus, you're assured of getting 2 games against the best AAC teams, which wasn't a slam dunk (especially for a southern team like SMU).
I understand downsides to it - U Conn would probably prefer a home game against Vermont or whomever than an extra game against Tulane or whomever.
But it shouldn't affect the SOS, as long as you trade out the Vermonts and not the good ooc teams you play.

We need some home cupcakes for revenue purposes especially since this conference has such a joke of a TV contract. Also while we have home and homes with schools like Florida there is no way they will agree to play @UConn every year.

(03-08-2014 01:32 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:26 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:23 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

And SMU. But you've forgotten about the team that beat you twice this year already, haven't you?

I was speaking more to the perennial BB powers. UConn, Cincy and Memphis are the elite hoops programs in this league with a lot of history. But yes Larry Brown is doing a great job and you guys should be top 10-15 next year. Congrats again on beating us this year.

History means crap. Look at our football program. Bottom line is that we are going to be a great team next year and need strength of schedule just as much as the teams you mentioned. Not including us in that group is little more than a veiled putdown.

(03-08-2014 01:32 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:26 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:23 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

And SMU. But you've forgotten about the team that beat you twice this year already, haven't you?

I was speaking more to the perennial BB powers. UConn, Cincy and Memphis are the elite hoops programs in this league with a lot of history. But yes Larry Brown is doing a great job and you guys should be top 10-15 next year. Congrats again on beating us this year.

Wow, one bad season and how quickly you’re forgotten. I guess the 6th winning program of all time and prior to this season 6 straight trips to the NCAA tourmment, 31 appearances overall, knocking off a top 25 ranked opponent each of the last 7 seasons, including 5 top 10 opponents in that run doesn’t qualify as a perennial powerhouse or elite team in the AAC.

Nationally maybe that won’t turn many heads, but if that doesn’t rank as a power program in the AAC I guess it’s a pretty tough grading system.

yup for sure that is what it means.

(03-08-2014 10:40 AM)The Real LHS81 Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:37 AM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:36 AM)The Real LHS81 Wrote:  Ugh. . . Okay. Think that's why the AAC needs to offer a Wichita St or VCU to offset Navy, and have an 18 game conference schedule.

The Big Ten did an 18 game schedule with 11 teams for over two decades.

Okay. . . Just not in favor of a 20 game league schedule. But, if it happens. Guess that means SMU will be 20-0 or 19-1 next year in the league

(03-08-2014 02:31 PM)eastside cat Wrote:  yup for sure that is what it means.

(03-08-2014 10:40 AM)The Real LHS81 Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:37 AM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:36 AM)The Real LHS81 Wrote:  Ugh. . . Okay. Think that's why the AAC needs to offer a Wichita St or VCU to offset Navy, and have an 18 game conference schedule.

The Big Ten did an 18 game schedule with 11 teams for over two decades.

Okay. . . Just not in favor of a 20 game league schedule. But, if it happens. Guess that means SMU will be 20-0 or 19-1 next year in the league

SMU may not be a "traditional" basketball power. . . But, the pieces will be in place for SMU to make a Final Four run next year. . . You & the rest of the conference will find that out

(03-08-2014 01:45 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:36 PM)DrBox Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:23 PM)huskiesnyc Wrote:  This is a terrible idea and it puts a lot more pressure on UConn, Cincy and Memphis to have top 10 OOC schedules.

Not really. It doesn't require you to schedule additional quality teams - it just requires you to schedule fewer cupcakes.

Plus, you're assured of getting 2 games against the best AAC teams, which wasn't a slam dunk (especially for a southern team like SMU).
I understand downsides to it - U Conn would probably prefer a home game against Vermont or whomever than an extra game against Tulane or whomever.
But it shouldn't affect the SOS, as long as you trade out the Vermonts and not the good ooc teams you play.

We need some home cupcakes for revenue purposes especially since this conference has such a joke of a TV contract. Also while we have home and homes with schools like Florida there is no way they will agree to play @UConn every year.

Didn't you sell the Big East name to the C7 to compensate (in reality, MORE than make up for) for the "loss of tv revenue"?

(03-08-2014 10:30 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  According to yesterday's Tulane chat with Scott Kushner:

"AAC basketball is going to be brutal and it will be 20 games of brutality. I've been told the league schedule is going to be a home-and-home with all 10 opponents."

Definitely not in favor of a 20-game conference schedule.
Temple plays its 4 Big5 opponents annually. Combine that with a 3-game holiday tourney and that only leaves 3 out of conference games.

I'll be ecstatic if it happens, but I get why other schools would be against it.

Think this is the best option myself

(03-08-2014 10:44 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  I would have thought eight home and homes and the last two single games, one home one away for 18 total.

ESPN & CBS have provide AAC tremendous love... What better way to promote the AAC, programs, current and future recruits who want to be seen on ESPN & CBS... I think is brilliant.

This would be my hope for an 18 game conference schedule for SMU


SMU home & home Houston, Tulsa, Memphis, Cincinnati, Temple, UConn, Tulane, UCF

SMU single game East Carolina, @ USF

18 game conference schedule. Temple home/home cause Larry Brown/Philadelphia angle. . . Sorry East Carolina. But, I believe SMU already has a game next year in Raleigh against NC State