Informative article about the difficulty of scheduling at the MM level, if you have a good program. Thoughts?

http://www.etsubucs.com/mbasketball/news...e-in-2019/

(09-19-2018 01:26 PM)ETSU4Life Wrote:  Informative article about the difficulty of scheduling at the MM level, if you have a good program. Thoughts?

http://www.etsubucs.com/mbasketball/news...e-in-2019/

Seems like a good idea (although we have limited information). Kind of a combo of the old bracket busters and an exempt tournament.

I hope we get the home game on Thanksgiving Saturday still. That is one game I can usually attend -- and we usually play a good team like UNC-Wilmington or North Dakota State.

(09-19-2018 03:54 PM)Meanmike0001 Wrote:  

(09-19-2018 01:26 PM)ETSU4Life Wrote:  Informative article about the difficulty of scheduling at the MM level, if you have a good program. Thoughts?

http://www.etsubucs.com/mbasketball/news...e-in-2019/

Seems like a good idea (although we have limited information). Kind of a combo of the old bracket busters and an exempt tournament.

I hope we get the home game on Thanksgiving Saturday still. That is one game I can usually attend -- and we usually play a good team like UNC-Wilmington or North Dakota State.

Dealing with reality ultimately prevails. Is this a step in a direction that one day will see the breakup of DI basketball as the Power Five+ freeze out the little guys and force them into their own national tourney alliance?

(09-20-2018 06:29 AM)Buc66 Wrote:  

(09-19-2018 03:54 PM)Meanmike0001 Wrote:  

(09-19-2018 01:26 PM)ETSU4Life Wrote:  Informative article about the difficulty of scheduling at the MM level, if you have a good program. Thoughts?

http://www.etsubucs.com/mbasketball/news...e-in-2019/

Seems like a good idea (although we have limited information). Kind of a combo of the old bracket busters and an exempt tournament.

I hope we get the home game on Thanksgiving Saturday still. That is one game I can usually attend -- and we usually play a good team like UNC-Wilmington or North Dakota State.

Dealing with reality ultimately prevails. Is this a step in a direction that one day will see the breakup of DI basketball as the Power Five+ freeze out the little guys and force them into their own national tourney alliance?

This alliance is 2 games against other mid major opponents. Great for home game attendance and fan support, but will not make any difference in the NCAA tournament and thus the money that the Power Five makes.

Disagree with "it will not make any difference in the NCAA Tournament". While it may not lead to an at-large big, it ultimately could bump your seed up 1 or 2 spots higher if said team beats a top 60-75 RPI opponent on the road and at home.

My point is that I don't think the Power 5 will take much notice of a mid major moving up 1 or 2 seeds. They won't be knocking the Power 5 teams down, but rather will be moving above other mid majors. And then the Power 5 will win the vast majority of those matchups regardless.

I just don't think this is something that will be a threat to anyone of importance. It may, however, force other mid majors to start scheduling as they should to prevent losing seeds to the mid majors that have better schedules. That is a positive outcome.

(09-20-2018 06:29 AM)Buc66 Wrote:  

(09-19-2018 03:54 PM)Meanmike0001 Wrote:  

(09-19-2018 01:26 PM)ETSU4Life Wrote:  Informative article about the difficulty of scheduling at the MM level, if you have a good program. Thoughts?

http://www.etsubucs.com/mbasketball/news...e-in-2019/

Seems like a good idea (although we have limited information). Kind of a combo of the old bracket busters and an exempt tournament.

I hope we get the home game on Thanksgiving Saturday still. That is one game I can usually attend -- and we usually play a good team like UNC-Wilmington or North Dakota State.

Dealing with reality ultimately prevails. Is this a step in a direction that one day will see the breakup of DI basketball as the Power Five+ freeze out the little guys and force them into their own national tourney alliance?

In basketball, it's more like Power 7, plus you actually do have the Atlantic 10 and a couple of other conferences that are more on the Mid Major level but that often get one, sometimes two at large bids, or that get the odd at large bid for the NIT.

If the big conferences formed their own league, that could actually be bad for some teams, as the big post season tournament for them would probably be drastically reduced from the current 68 slots.

This would have no impact on the truly elite programs like Kentucky, Duke, UCLA, UNC, Villanova, etc, but for teams like Vanderbilt, Alabama, Clemson, Southern Cal, the teams that are in the big conferences but that haven't had major success outside of a few Sweet Sixteens and the odd Elite Eight here and there, this could hurt them badly. With 68 slots, you could be 6th or 7th in your conference and still make a Sweet Sixteen run. Cut that in half, to say 34 teams in a playoff, instead of 6 or 7 teams from a Power 7 conference getting a bid you might be looking at more around 4 or 5 teams at most. This is no problem if you're a traditional power program, but for a little of middle of the road or bottom of the barrel teams, unless they can upgrade enough to consistently knock off the elite programs, they may not get post season action themselves for years.