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Updated 1/31/16:

81 - Middle Tenn
103 - UAB
138 - La Tech
140 - Marshall
160 - Old Dominion
182 - Western Ky
207 - Charlotte
254 - FIU
269 - UTEP
275 - Southern Miss
278 - FAU
292 - Rice
325 - North Texas
344 - UT-San Antonio

Easy to see the boat anchors. Just don't suck. They don't have to be great it good. Just stop sucking.

Tulane is at 230, ECU at 170... and those were the bottom feeders in C-USA 2.0.

How is it that mtsu continues to be 20 rpi points above us?

(01-31-2016 04:51 PM)ranger1386b Wrote:  How is it that mtsu continues to be 20 rpi points above us?

Well they didn't lose to WKU. That helps. In all seriousness they didn't play a terrible OOC schedule like we did and they beat Auburn, unlike us.

CUSA RPI drops from #21 to #22...

(01-31-2016 04:51 PM)ranger1386b Wrote:  How is it that mtsu continues to be 20 rpi points above us?

Mostly because we played the following in our non-conference schedule (current RPI Rankings in left column)

304 - South Carolina Upstate
315 - Troy
318 - Jacksonville State
325 - Alabama State

NOTE: There are 351 total teams

Who would have thought a year ago when we were all bemoaning the idea of our basketball team ending up in the SoCon or the OVC that it actually would have been an improvement over this year's version of CUSA. This cnference has been so terrible this year. I have hope for it going forward but all of our teams, us included, need to start scheduling better and getting some decent wins OOC.

(01-31-2016 05:33 PM)BlazintheATL Wrote:  Who would have thought a year ago when we were all bemoaning the idea of our basketball team ending up in the SoCon or the OVC that it actually would have been an improvement over this year's version of CUSA. This cnference has been so terrible this year. I have hope for it going forward but all of our teams, us included, need to start scheduling better and getting some decent wins OOC.

I don't think UT-San Antonio, FAU, FIU, North Texas, Rice OR THEIR FANS give one crap about basketball...and unfortunately we have to play them and their 300+ RPI Rankings every year and some of them TWICE...that's a problem...I think the conference should try and protect the top tier teams from having to play any of them H&H...the perfect solution would be for them to be gone and replaced with decent basketball schools that play football as good as those teams do - it wouldn't be hard to find those programs imo (and on our half of the continent to boot)

I'd vote for keeping Rice. They made a good hire with Rhodes and he's brought in some nice recruits. There's hope for them. Plus they've been CUSA members for a long time now and what they bring in academic cachet is valuable. As for the other 4, yeah get rid of them. We could reduce our footprint by adding 2 teams like Ga State and whoever else and increase the quality of our league. I doubt that's likely to happen though.

Half the league is under 250. That just sucks.

(01-31-2016 04:32 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Easy to see the boat anchors. Just don't suck. They don't have to be great it good. Just stop sucking.

75% of the conference is sucking this season. And it's easier said than done to stop sucking, I will reference the 10 years of UAB Football before Clark's arrival as proof of that.

UTSA's wasting money on scholarships. Surely 14 walkons could do better than 341.

Only 4 of 14 teams have winning records.

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From a Pomeroy perspective, the conference varies from UAB at 116, to UTSA at 341.

C-USA remains the 21st rated conference, three spots below the Sun Belt.

We get upset with the bottom feeders, but UAB didn't help matters by having the 312th OOC SOS, and an overall SOS of 328.

Our schedule sucks!

Do we have the worst rated schedule in the conference? How did that even happen. I know some of the teams we were counting on to be good werent but c'mon. With the exception of AU, it was the in state teams that hurt us the worst. What was our SOS last year?

(01-31-2016 10:04 PM)BlazintheATL Wrote:  Do we have the worst rated schedule in the conference? How did that even happen. I know some of the teams we were counting on to be good werent but c'mon. With the exception of AU, it was the in state teams that hurt us the worst. What was our SOS last year?

Last year we played a brutal OOC schedule. It was rated 53rd.

UTEP's OOC SOS is 341 this year. UAB is 312 and UTEP is 341. FIU is 325.

Meanwhile, Marshall had an OOC SOS of 56, MT 93, and WKU 94 this year.

There has to be a way we can schedule to give ourselves a shot at an at large bid. Chattanooga, Belmont, UT Arlington, Monomouth, etc. have done so, so why can't we? Granted we have to win some games OOC but this team was basically put in a situation where it had to be nearly flawless to even be considered for an at large.

Remember that this time last year we didnt even know what conference we would call home. Im sure that didnt help scheduling for this year.

15 Current Mid-Major RPI's (most in the southeast):

31 - VCU (A-10)
36 - Valparaiso (Horizon)
43 - Chattanooga (Southern)
44 - William & Mary (Colonial)
51 - Ark-Little Rock (Sun Belt)
52 - George Washington (A-10)
53 - Davidson (A-10)
65 - Evansville (MVC)
84 - Belmont (OVC)
96 - Charleston (Colonial)
97 - James Madison (Colonial)
110 - Richmond (A-10)
119 - Indiana State (MVC)
126 - Southern Illinois (MVC)
132 - Mercer (Southern)

I'm not saying Bartow Arena would be full for these games...but if we could add more programs like these while removing the smaller in-state 300+ RPI KILLERS we would be much better off (C-USA guarantees us several 250+ RPI killers from the bottom feeders)...I have to believe 3 or 4 of these programs would play us w/o a return game...but even if they wouldn't so be it