Aresco: Guidelines Established for OOC Scheduling

[tcf15]

David Borges ‏@DaveBorges
@American_Conf commish Mike Aresco says league schools now have an established set of guidelines when it comes to non-conference scheduling.

 

[WestHartHusk]

David Borges ‏@DaveBorges
@American_Conf commish Mike Aresco says league schools now have an established set of guidelines when it comes to non-conference scheduling.

For football: take whatever crumbs you can get from the P5.
For basketball: take whatever crumbs you can get from the P5 (unless you are UConn).

 

[7774]

For football: take whatever crumbs you can get from the P5.
For basketball: take whatever crumbs you can get from the P5 (unless you are UConn).

More like try to figure out who the super, super terrible teams are going to be and don't schedule them. Try to schedule the regular terrible teams instead.

It's actually pretty easy to manipulate RPI, and the key isn't to schedule a bunch of really good teams.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

More like try to figure out who the super, super terrible teams are going to be and don't schedule them. Try to schedule the regular terrible teams instead.

It's actually pretty easy to manipulate RPI, and the key isn't to schedule a bunch of really good teams.

Definitely correct. But the problem is that every team America knows this now and somebody has to play the teams in the 300s. When you're East Carolina and you're trying to fill out a home schedule, those might be the only teams left.

 

[tcf15]

Borges on some of the guidelines: "discourage games vs. teams with RPI in 300's, set certain amount of games w/in certain RPI ranges, among others"

https://twitter.com/DaveBorges/status/524956872399679488

 

[tcf15]

http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-mike-aresco-aac-hartford-1023-20141022-story.html

Dan Leibovitz, former UHart coach, is the league's new associate commissioner for men's basketball, and he has taken on the task of evaluating the teams' non-conference schedules with an eye on improving RPIs.

 

[7774]

Definitely correct. But the problem is that every team America knows this now and somebody has to play the teams in the 300s. When you're East Carolina and you're trying to fill out a home schedule, those might be the only teams left.

Yes, but the skill isn't knowing not to play teams in the 300s, the skill is being able to figure out what teams will fall into the 300s bucket vs. the 250s bucket a year or two in advance. That's really, really hard, but hopefully the conference will come up with some sort of methodology to help teams do it.

 

[pj]

very important that they do this. The snubs in the 2014 NCAA tourney selection should have been a major wake-up call to the schools new to high-level basketball.

 

[Silk31]

very important that they do this. The snubs in the 2014 NCAA tourney selection should have been a major wake-up call to the schools new to high-level basketball.

SMU wasn't on the map enough before Larry Brown came on board to have secured good enough OOC schedule for last season and it obviously came back to bite them in the ass. Their numbers didn't stack up well vs the other teams on the bubble but they clearly passed the eye test for those that actually watched them play a year ago.

Larry Brown has transformed that program and he should use his reputation and ties to secure better scheduling moving forward. I think that SMU snub served as a wake up call to the AAC and it's good to see that the conference as a whole is trying to get out in front of things to make sure this doesn't happen again.

This shouldn't affect us and Memphis much at all...Cincy tends to have some weak OOC schedules though

 

[OkaForPrez]

@Silk31 It does effect us. It drags down everyone's SOS by the halo effect. You don't need much cache to schedule quality mid majors instead of Abilene Christian. The bottom of the AAC had within their power the ability to improve their SOS this year and a lot of them just plain didn't.