(06-06-2018 04:40 AM)Luckeyone Wrote: (06-05-2018 10:23 PM)masttg Wrote: Luckey is gonna love UDMs future schedules: https://m.herosports.com/college-basketb...edule-ahah
I certainly like his results! NCAA tournament bound 3 of 4 years at Texas Southern????
Only EMU would put a clause in a coaching contract for automatic extensions for 20 win seasons and then allow the coach to schedule Rochester, marygrove, Siena Heights, etc. Admitingly Mike Davis figured out the math that is one solution for mid majors. There are other ways to fix our schedule too.
If there are ways to fix our schedules, please PM me and write the AD. It isn't simple.
There are AT LEAST 3 main considerations:
1). We must schedule at least 6 OOC home games per MAC governance. That could get costly if the games are D-I and not home and home.
2). D-I game guarantees usually start around 50 - 75K. Could we/should we play a Texas Southern say 50 - 75K to journey to the Convo? Is the AD sitting on a mountain of cash that we don't know about? Lol.
3). OOC games are always "Let's make a deal" and not everyone wants to come to Ypsi and a lot of schools have NO interest in playing against a zone team (any more than a lot of teams don't like to play against the Army FB team).
Again, I'll say if MBB was our primary sport then we could drop say another 500 - 750K and do things which cost money.
And quite honestly we are at a huge disadvantage because our home game revenues are so meager. There are many mid-majors averaging 5 - 10K and bringing in buckets of revenues.
To quote someone: "Money talks and b*ll s*it walks." If someone won the lottery and dropped 1M / year for MBB, we'd see a completely different saga.