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(03-26-2020 02:16 PM)hooverblazer Wrote:  

(03-26-2020 12:07 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  It was mentioned a few posts ago that schools in the conference must do better OOC with their scheduling.
It does us no good to have no conference team anywhere close to having a decent RPI by the time the conference season starts.

I have said this continuously however some of you held this against our former coach.
This environment and facts haven't changed with a new coaching hire.

A coaching hire by itself will not create at large bids.

I would be surprised to even see an uptick in our OOC at home schedule.

The best we can look forward to is about a thousand more fans or so showing up for big games (less for the crappy games we play) and hope to create enough excitement to where it bleeds over to the team.

& maybe the team can end up in the top 2 or 3 in the conference by the end of the season (it would have probably happened this year even with Ehsan as coach) and have a decent seeding to try and get the only bid to the tournament by winning the tournament.

And with the added excitement maybe we would be able to have prospective recruits at the game instead of keeping them away from the arena due to the deadness of it.

I guarantee you AK wasn't hired with the intention of us remaining in CUSA long term. His hire is a statement to the AAC decision makers that we're serious about fielding a competitive basketball team again. Clark + Kennedy + Protective Stadium + bball practice facility + UAB's academics should have us in a great position for realignment. That equation is enhanced by Kennedy and weakened with Ehsan.

While we remain in CUSA I'm willing to bet Kennedy gets us consistently better results than Ehsan, but that's not the end game.

Yeah, Ehsan never got us a game against his former team, Maryland, unlike what Haase was able to do getting UNC into Bartow.