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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3281618, member: 5798"] JonathanXIV, I use to have the same exact opinion of Mulkey and her embarrassingly weak schedule year in and year out. That's because I was looking at it from a fan's point of view. I saw Baylor as a top 5 perennial power house "elite" program that is on par with UConn, Notre Dame, etc. Like you , I wondered why Baylor chose not to play an aggressive preconference schedule like UConn does, and derided her for doing so. Then it dawned on me. I looked at it from Mulkey's perspective. Baylor is in a P5 conference, which has higher quality (major) members than UConn does, thus they don't have to front load their schedule with quality opponents. UConn is in a conference composed of mid-majors, most of whom are seldom ranked. Mulkey chooses to use the preconference portion of her schedule to her advantage by scheduling 75-90% of these games at home, and only 1-2 ranked teams. She uses these games to allow her team to bond and to integrate the new incoming players to the team and the system. I’d bet the farm she doesn’t care what others think about her scheduling preferences. Last year, the only game they lost was to Stanford on the road. Like UConn, Baylor seldom loses home games. This year, ALL games are at home except the tournament in the Virgin Islands (Washington St, Indiana & South Carolina) and at UConn in January. Here's the rub..........regardless/in spite of her weak OOC schedule, she gets away with it. Baylor [I]usually[/I] receives a #1 or #2 seed come March. As Mulkey sees it, a "non competitive" schedule checks all of the boxes. They play ALL of their games at home, wins all of them, and gets all of her players (especially the freshmen) playing time to begin the regular season. She's always ranked in the top 5 in the preseason polls like she is this year. So, bottom line, until that formula no longer works for her, expect her to continue using it. She won it all last year using that formula. [URL='https://baylorbears.com/news/2019/7/16/womens-basketball-wbb-finalizes-non-conference-dates-opponents.aspx'][SIZE=4][B]Baylor WBB Finalizes Non-Conference Dates & Opponents - 2019/2020[/B][/SIZE][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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