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I really haven't paid much attention to it until now. And I know it shouldn't matter who we are playing, but man that is a terrible home schedule. Here it is by last year's RPI and it is horrific. Only 5 of 17 games in the top 200 RPI:


#32 Stephen F. Austin
#53 Georgia State
#79 UTEP
#116 WKU
#137 MTSU
#210 USC Upstate
#216 FIU
#224 UNT
#236 UTSA
#242 Rice
#257 Alabama State
#280 Seattle
#295 Marshall
#303 FAU
#304 Jacksonville State
Hiwassee
Cal State (Exh.)

you know what we haven't had in a while ???? somebody complaining about the quality of the home schedule....

The way I look at it we should have another undefeated season at Bartow.

You know what. We should play tougher teams. Shame on Haase for not scheduling tougher home games.



Who has the next line?

The conference games are what they are, but we need as soft as a nonconference schedule as possible with such a young team. Our team was a minute & fifteen seconds away from being .500 last season.

Those opponents arent going to put fans in the seats early in the season but it will later if we win the games we are supposed to.

Talking about SoS:
-It's hard to determine whether the selection committee likes to reward those who have a lot of wins based on winning games they are supposed to with a schedule like we have.

OR

-Do they reward the teams who struggle through a tough non conference schedule, but are successful within their own conference?

If I was making the schedule I'd play home and home with a few SEC and ACC schools... somebody needs to make the calls!

But seriously, read this before you criticize the schedule.

http://www.uabsports.com/sports/m-baskbl...15aaa.html

The link above pretty much lays it out. I'm not mad. Sometimes things just play out like that, especially when most of the conference arguably doesn't even care about basketball.

Just win.

Lol. I'm not mad nor am I blaming Haase and I already read the article about the scheduling woes. Just tough to see those kind of RPI numbers. It's more about our conference and less about our OOC. I think our OOC is a bit weak (wish we had at least one bigger name on the home side), but generally our problem is the conference being terrible.

Proof positive that is is difficult for Coach Haase to schedule top 50 teams at UAB Arena. In 2013 UAB defeated UNC. That probably even had a resounding effect and made it even harder.

(11-02-2015 09:30 PM)TheGORILLA Wrote:  Proof positive that is is difficult for Coach Haase to schedule top 50 teams at UAB Arena. In 2013 UAB defeated UNC. That probably even had a resounding effect and made it even harder.

We got a home and home with Michigan as we agreed to a one off away football game. We have Gonzaga at home this year later in conference as our conference worked with us to give us an opening. Gonzaga will travel to top 50 teams late in the year since their conference is weak and they like the exposure against higher teams. It's hard for teams like us but it can be done.

(11-02-2015 09:36 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(11-02-2015 09:30 PM)TheGORILLA Wrote:  Proof positive that is is difficult for Coach Haase to schedule top 50 teams at UAB Arena. In 2013 UAB defeated UNC. That probably even had a resounding effect and made it even harder.

We got a home and home with Michigan as we agreed to a one off away football game. We have Gonzaga at home this year later in conference as our conference worked with us to give us an opening. Gonzaga will travel to top 50 teams late in the year since their conference is weak and they like the exposure against higher teams. It's hard for teams like us but it can be done.

You have a hall of fame coach (who cheats) who can attract opponents. Coach Doh didn't get those games.

This season UAB is getting some good preseason hype. If we live up to it, we will start getting calls for games.

I did have fun yelling fire Watts at the UAB game in Louisville though. I couldn't tell for sure but I think he was in the same suite I was in

So when is the Bartow Classic?

couldn't we have just pulled up one of the dozen previous threads complaining about the same thing?

(11-02-2015 08:07 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  The conference games are what they are, but we need as soft as a nonconference schedule as possible with such a young team. Our team was a minute & fifteen seconds away from being .500 last season.

Those opponents arent going to put fans in the seats early in the season but it will later if we win the games we are supposed to.

Talking about SoS:
-It's hard to determine whether the selection committee likes to reward those who have a lot of wins based on winning games they are supposed to with a schedule like we have.

OR

-Do they reward the teams who struggle through a tough non conference schedule, but are successful within their own conference?

No it's not. The selection committee has been very consistent with one thing over the past decade, and that is a quality non conference slate. When usm and la tech and va tech and every other team with 20-25 wins and fewer than 7 losses was left out it was because the non conference was garbage.

I am not calling our non conference slate garbage, because there is some meat on it. I would really just like to see us keep the 250+ rpi teams out of conference to one a year. Those home games are absoultely terrible for our end of year numbers, especially when mixed in with our terrible conference slate.

Fill up Bartow. Enough with excuses. Show up no matter who we are playing.

That is a given. That doesn't have anything to do inviting the New Hampshire Post Stroke Hemiplegic School of the Blind JV squad to come to Bartow every year. We have to do a better job scheduling. It's to the point that you don't even have to add super high RPI schools to the schedule, you just have to avoid the absolute bottom dwellers at all costs. We've done a bad job at that.

(11-03-2015 09:41 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Fill up Bartow. Enough with excuses. Show up no matter who we are playing.

You nailed it. No excuses.

(11-03-2015 09:58 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  That is a given. That doesn't have anything to do inviting the New Hampshire Post Stroke Hemiplegic School of the Blind JV squad to come to Bartow every year. We have to do a better job scheduling. It's to the point that you don't even have to add super high RPI schools to the schedule, you just have to avoid the absolute bottom dwellers at all costs. We've done a bad job at that.

What do you propose they do to schedule better teams that they have not already done?


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It takes two teams to schedule a game. You can't force teams to come to Bartow.

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