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RE: Xavier too?
(01-03-2013 12:25 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:36 AM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:26 AM)Tiger188 Wrote:  Josh has something up his sleeve. Trust me, he would not be so determined to end these series and knowing the uncertainty of the Big East if he did not have something in the works. I think everyone will be quite surprised when they see the released schedule for the next few years.

At this point, he better.

Or what, exactly?

Or people won't show up for games and he'll get canned.
01-03-2013 12:40 PM
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(01-03-2013 12:40 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 12:25 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:36 AM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:26 AM)Tiger188 Wrote:  Josh has something up his sleeve. Trust me, he would not be so determined to end these series and knowing the uncertainty of the Big East if he did not have something in the works. I think everyone will be quite surprised when they see the released schedule for the next few years.

At this point, he better.

Or what, exactly?

Or people won't show up for games and he'll get canned.

03-lmfao fat chance of attendance going down as long as he keeps winning.
01-03-2013 01:44 PM
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RE: Xavier too?
(01-03-2013 12:40 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 12:25 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:36 AM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:26 AM)Tiger188 Wrote:  Josh has something up his sleeve. Trust me, he would not be so determined to end these series and knowing the uncertainty of the Big East if he did not have something in the works. I think everyone will be quite surprised when they see the released schedule for the next few years.

At this point, he better.

Or what, exactly?

Or people won't show up for games and he'll get canned.

03-lmfao
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RE: Xavier too?
(01-03-2013 01:44 PM)Lord2FLI Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 12:40 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 12:25 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:36 AM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:26 AM)Tiger188 Wrote:  Josh has something up his sleeve. Trust me, he would not be so determined to end these series and knowing the uncertainty of the Big East if he did not have something in the works. I think everyone will be quite surprised when they see the released schedule for the next few years.

At this point, he better.

Or what, exactly?

Or people won't show up for games and he'll get canned.

03-lmfao fat chance of attendance going down as long as he keeps winning.

Not a chance in hell of that happening anytime soon, what else do you do in Memphis in the winter , ski, snowboard, go to the beach...
schedule for next couple of years will be stacked, even if the BE C7
leave in 2014 there will be provisions for games vs those that stayed
in lieu of buyout $$$.
That said beefing up home schedule with some better top 25 games
is not too much to ask for if you can get them for the fanbase.
01-03-2013 01:49 PM
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I'm glad you guys can laugh about it.
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(01-03-2013 11:13 AM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 11:07 AM)Tony85 Wrote:  Cal started this scheduling foolishness because of his chicken **** opinion about recruiting. How many hometown recruits over the years did we lose to Arkansas, Ole Miss and Tennessee strictly because we play them every other year in Memphis. The biggest name Memphis product I can recall leaving was Todd Day, the others may not have been our priority recruit but we would have gladly taken them (ie. Beck, Martin, Stewart, Huery).

We can't have it both ways. Josh can't complain about CUSA andrefuse to play top teams in non-conference. We could have built iour own Big East-type schedule with Ark,Texas,Tenn, Indiana, NC State etc. Not all of them of course but there are enough quality teams to give us a great schedule. I know CJP said he tried to get Kansas but I believe we deserve better. I also believe he would have an easier time attracting recuits with a more competitive schedule. If we start winning them then the networks will put us in the rotation. Sorry for the rant but I'm sick of excuses for why our OOC sucks. Obviously we can scale back after we change conferences but this is ridiculous!!!

How the hell is anyone supposed to answer that?

And give UT the credit they deserve, they're a good program and a bubble team this season. Hopefully we can find another team equal to or greater than UT caliber to put on the schedule next year, in addition to the "Big East" slate we'll be playing in conference.

"Obviously we can scale back after we change conferences". Isn't this what we're doing?

That's my point. It wasn't that big of a deal so why drop the series? Fear?

Will the Catholic7 and Louisville be in the BE next season? If they are then we need a very good showing if we are to garner/maintain any serious status other than being a high mid-major.
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Next year we will be playing teams like Louisville, UConn, Cincy, Temple, Georgetown, Nova, Marquette, etc

The schedule won't be an issue until 2014
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(01-03-2013 07:41 AM)MtownTigers916 Wrote:  Pastner quoted in the paper today as saying that he wants the Xavier series to expire after this year. Who are we going to play out of conference next year?

Xavier was the best opponent we had at the Forum last year. Atmosphere was electric.

I'm just really disappointed by the scheduling moves. Sure, drop UT, but let's play someone. The Xavier announcement is even more troubling than the UT one.

I don't like Calipari, but at least we used to play people.
Remember having series with:
Gonzaga
Illinois
Georgetown
Missouri
Texas
Purdue
Arizona

The Forum was awesome during those games. Now the atmosphere isn't anywhere close.

Remember when we had a strength of schedule that we would hang out hats on at selection time? Now it's +100.

This is the wrong direction.

You don't even know who is going to replace Xavier and you are already ****** complaining?
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(01-03-2013 02:05 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  Next year we will be playing teams like Louisville, UConn, Cincy, Temple, Georgetown, Nova, Marquette, etc

The schedule won't be an issue until 2014

Hopefully.
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Tried to get Indiana on the schedule right when Cal left and Josh came in.
Kansas was asked by Pastner and so was Michigan State. They just said no.
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(01-03-2013 02:11 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  
(01-03-2013 02:05 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  Next year we will be playing teams like Louisville, UConn, Cincy, Temple, Georgetown, Nova, Marquette, etcThe schedule won't be an issue until 2014

Hopefully.

May very well set the tone of our place, respectibility and/or national perception. We have to win a number of them to make our point. Just playing 1-2 top teams/year you can't make it up until a one shot deal in the touney. Just win baby.
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(01-03-2013 02:00 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  I'm glad you guys can laugh about it.

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(01-03-2013 02:27 PM)fishman6581 Wrote:  Tried to get Indiana on the schedule right when Cal left and Josh came in.
Kansas was asked by Pastner and so was Michigan State. They just said no.

Please don't bring this up; it derails from the theme of slamming Pastner on scheduling.

As Saluki pointed out, though, most of the "big names (top 20)" are not going to agree to a H&H with MEMPHIS. Now, there are several reasons:
- Consider MEMPHIS beneath their school.
- Don't want to risk a loss to school that is NOT in a "power" conference.
- Don't want to afford MEMPHIS the exposure of playing a "power" conference school.
- Must meet criteria for having "x" OOC games at home.

So Pastner working with Bowen needs to focus on teams that are in the top 40 and willing to go H&H with MEMPHIS. The one thing Bowen will need to grasp is for MEMPHIS to remain a national brand in BB and gain recruits nationally....then the schedule also must be national in scope. So the focus should be on opponents like:
- SEC (LSU, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M)
- ACC (Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Florida State, NC State)
- B1G (Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Purdue)
- B10 (Texas, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Kansas State)
- PAC12 (Utah, Arizona, Stanford, Washington)

Non "power" conference possibilities:
- Villanova, Georgetown, Marquette, St Johns (NYC media), Butler, BYU, UNLV, VCU, UAB (yeah, the Bartow Classic)

Oh, and keep the San Diego State BB series even if they go back to the MWC. The Aztecs are fairly good.
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^ You left out dropping out of the top 25 right off the bat. The marquee game turns into a no win game for the other program. Sort of like what Xavier did to us last year and this year. We are the "Xavier" on other teams schedule.

Going to be hard to convince the Kansas's of the world to play us when we have dropped out of the rankings so fast and hard.
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(01-03-2013 07:43 AM)transitt Wrote:  Our SOS was 20 last season.

And look where it got us. Come on, everyone and their grandmother looked at that schedule and yawned including the people that paid a grand a seat for season tickets.
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I feel much better listening to Pastner on radio today.
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