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[QUOTE="Plebe, post: 4828499, member: 6927"]
I like how you minimize the phenomenon by calling them “non-ranked teams.” As if the 354th-best team in Division I is just barely outside the top 25.

Also, Kim can only be credited for scheduling one of those two “ranked” opponents, since the other was the conference challenge game.

As to your question, “Who cares?”: I do, for one, and I'm probably not alone on this.

I don't have a problem with a team scheduling one, two or maybe three exhibition-quality games against the lower echelons of D-I. But it's obscene when a coach schedules 80-90% of her nonconference games against the Little Sisters of the Poor, Destitute and Downtrodden.

Marquee matchups between top teams draw interest from a nationwide audience and help to grow the sport. That's a big part of why Pat Summitt sought out elite nonconference opponents, and other great coaches (like Geno, Tara, Dawn, and the former Notre Dame coach) have done similarly.

Watching LSU drub McNeese by 89 points might go over well with the locals, but game after game of such silliness does little to promote the sport to a broader audience, no matter how many times Kim gets herself ejected.
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