(03-07-2018 02:50 PM)Clad Scheme Owl Wrote: You said earlier that it hurts our RPI to play teams that could be eliminated from the schedule. Which I then said it would screw over those teams and that there is no need to change the current number of games we just scheduled poorly to play 2 mid weeks and 4 games this weekend. That's on us. You were suggesting that we don't bother with an RPI north of 150 because it hurts our RPI to play them. That isn't typically true if you take care of business and win. Also by that same logic you are suggesting that A&M and "big schools" shouldn't have had us on their schedule. I never said we have nothing to gain. If anything we SHOULD have quite a bit to gain since against inferior mid week competition we would like to get in guys that would not usually play.
This isn't what I said. This is a ridiculous interpretation of what I said.
First, I said that playing teams north of 150 doesn't do us any good, and COULD do harm. You haven't presented anything that in any way disputes that.
Playing against inferior competition has SOME advantages... but as I have said now repeatedly... nobody suggested we eliminate ALL of them.
Even you admit here that 6 in a week is too many, so where is your 'gives us an opportunity to play less used players' argument THIS week? It's
and while you blame 'us', I'm quite convinced that if we wouldn't have been harmed by scheduling perhaps 6 fewer games, that we would have likely canceled one or more of these games (and I suspect their 'away' counterparts.
Quote:Also any comparison to the 03 team is irrelevant. None of these players were there and only 1 coach remains. That team was 33-1 at one point and had 3 top 10 picks in their starting rotation. That was one of the best college teams ever assembled. But again it's not anything from then translates to now. The entire premise of how this came up was some were suggesting that we play too many games in a college season. I strongly disagree. We don't need to keep trying to find excuses. We need to get our swagger back and win.
What I think you mean by irrelevant is that it disproves your position so let's ignore it.
My point was that even the best teams (2003) can lose to vastly inferior competition. SOMETIMES twice.... so that means that your comment implying that losing to Tx State is inexcusable or 'shows how we've fallen' is silly. You're absolutely correct that that team was one of the best ever assembled.... and they STILL lost 3 times to vastly inferior competition. The biggest difference between 2003 and 2018 isn't losing to Tx State.... It's beating Stanford.
I've made no excuses. You'll see nothing in my posts that says we're doing well or that I'm happy about losing to Tx State.
There is a massive difference between saying we shouldn't expect to beat Tx State because we're playing 6 games in 7 days (what you seem to think I've said) and saying that ANY team, whether it be 2003 or 2018 Rice, can lose to an inferior team, is better off not playing 6 in 7, and that if you're looking to drop some games, that dropping low RPI teams is better.
I don't know the exact math, but I'm pretty sure we've had discussions on here from people who know that show that you can go 'clear the bench' (that 'good' you seem to think can only happen against weak teams) against a top 50 team mid-week and lose 15-1 and not do as much damage to your RPI as beating a team ranked 200 by the same score.
