monarx
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RE: 2018-2019 MBB Schedule
(04-24-2018 02:58 PM)odu09 Wrote: (04-24-2018 12:52 PM)ODUBB35 Wrote: (03-12-2018 01:56 PM)Gilesfan Wrote: (03-12-2018 01:49 PM)Cyniclone Wrote: (03-12-2018 12:47 PM)cmett003 Wrote: Im all for playing road ACC, Big East, SEC, P-12, Big 12, Big 10 games with no return.
I would also do an AAC 2 for 1
And home and homes with Sun Belt, A-10, MAC, MWC.
C-USA and all Mid-Majors (G5) need to stop scheduling the UMES, Fairfield, Norfolk St, and JMUs. There is no point to scheduling an opponent of a guaranteed 1-bid league (low major). ODU should be scheduling aggressively because this what you get with a cupcake schedule
Not going to happen. Tomato cans are an important part of almost every program's scheduling diet. They give lesser programs a home date and a winnable game, and stronger programs the opportunity to give their bench guys some run and an opportunity to road-test different schemes.
The best thing ODU can do to improve their at-large chances is to be in a better conference, whether that involves moving to the A-10 or AAC, doing their part to make CUSA a viable multi-bid conference, or helping to create a better conference out of whole cloth. Because if this year has taught us anything, it's that you are judged by the company you keep more than what you do with them. I'm not even a big mid-major conspiracy guy, but Middle Tennessee and St. Mary's are an object lesson in the abject unfairness of the system as it stands today.
At least MTSU did try and they got nothing from it. St Marys actually turned down some P-5 schools. MTSU worked with the premise that playing good teams on the road would help.
ODU was close a few years back. MTSU got snubbed, but would have likely gotten in with one CUSA Tournament win.
It is possible, and at this point, we need to open as many avenues to the NCAA's as possible.
Scheduling schools like Cincy instead of UMES not only enhances ODU's at-large chances, but it also creates a lot more fan interest.
(and if we lose, our at-large chances aren't damaged any more than they were by beating UMES).
I don't think anyone at ODU doesn't want to play Cinci. Why would Cinci put ODU on the schedule? The argument you just used against UMES is the same argument schools like Cinci use on us.
Cincy, Memphis and UConn are strange ones because their basketball programs are so much better than the rest of the AAC. They really don't fit in that conference. If you leave them out, ODU would do well to schedule any of the rest of the AAC because those teams will automatically have a higher RPI than UMES etc simply by playing those top three (and WSU). We should be scheduling as many AAC, A10, MVC teams as possible, with a few OVC, SBC, MEAC, CAA thrown in.
An OOC with ECU, USF, UMass, VCU, UR, GW, Temple, GSU, WM, Belmont, Murray St, NSU, Drake would be fine by me.
(This post was last modified: 04-25-2018 10:22 AM by monarx.)
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