Article on mid-major scheduling dilemmas

[tornado]

They have to go on the road for a couple guarantee games for the $$ and cannot pay the $$
to get top home opponents....thus they believe that their scheduling requirements exclude them from
every getting an at large bid...

He says...
"Other mid-major conferences are buying home games for $60,000 to $70,000, but we're just not doing that .."

seriously?? if BU can buy a "guarantee game..even for that $$ and win against, say...Idaho State...then isn't that exactly what the gurus say really COSTS BU an at large bid!! It doesn't gain us one!!

They're whining because they had an RPI of 57 and didn't get an at-large bid...
is anyone here crying over this??? Baloney - a dozen different MVC teams have better RPI's and were left out in the past couple years!!

I have no idea what the issue is here...
Stop playing St. Catherine State and Brescia as regular season games and go win one of those guarantee games against a BCS opponent!!!
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basket...ng-Morehead-State-Murray-Sta?urn=ncaab,240272

 

[Da Coach]

At least Morehead State's coach seems to be smart enough to know that with Kenneth Faried dropping out of the NBA draft and returning next season, that he has to schedule up to try to knock off some good teams and maybe there could be a slight chance of an at-large bid. If only ISU coach Jankovich had scheduled that way last year.

 

[Bravesfan]

At least Morehead State's coach seems to be smart enough to know that with Kenneth Faried dropping out of the NBA draft and returning next season, that he has to schedule up to try to knock off some good teams and maybe there could be a slight chance of an at-large bid. If only ISU coach Jankovich had scheduled that way last year.

Don't get me started on ISU! They have single handedly kept the Valley from at-large bids the last few years. Maybe not solely them, but they had a big hand in it by keeping the conference RPI down and not taking care of business against UNI two years ago in St. Louis.

 

[Braves4Life]

...ISU! They have single handedly kept the Valley from at-large bids the last few years. Maybe not solely them, .....

Now that's a contradictory statement if I've ever seen one. :lol:

 

[tornado]

Here's another column on the difficulties of mid-major scheduling......
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/13/AR2010061303909.html

it highlights Wichita State...but some of the quotes are other mid-major coaches...

"Looking to add games for next season, Wichita State men's basketball Coach
Gregg Marshall ...calling dozens of teams asking to play. Time after time,
they relay Marshall the same two-letter response: no.

"It is a pain in the [butt], for lack of a better word," Marshall
said. "Constantly pounding the keys on the phone to get somebody to say
yes. It's almost impossible."

"...involves scouring the nation for someone to say yes, and some say that
challenge for mid-major programs has become almost more difficult than recruiting.

"It is the worst thing in the world, scheduling....It is the worst."

"... his staff has called close to 200 schools; nearly half have openings on their schedule but will not play.
..no one wants to play you." "It has been a nightmare," ..

"Marshall waits for his phone to ring. Wichita State has just two home
games -- University of Missouri-Kansas City and Tulsa -- secured right now.."

 

[Out of Balance]

Don't get me started on ISU! They have single handedly kept the Valley from at-large bids the last few years. Maybe not solely them, but they had a big hand in it by keeping the conference RPI down and not taking care of business against UNI two years ago in St. Louis.

:?, I shot him, he died, but I did not kill him:?;-)