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Message: [QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 3873103, member: 168"] Nobody thinks that playing only three OOC games is a good idea. Everyone is in agreement. Just following the basics of the NET, a few more wins over the course of the season—especially wins of more than 10 points—would actively help that number. So the questions become: • did the program think 3 games was good? • were there times when we could actually and reasonably have played games—i.e. were we on pause or our opponents? • were there reasonable, available teams to replace teams we didn't play while we still could? Was the timing good? The program obviously doesn't think 3 OOC games was good. They have at various times tried to reschedule. A number of the cancelled games were due to our own covid protocols, particularly in the early OOC portion. When the team could reschedule early we were coming off a long break and Hurley was reluctant because he wanted practice time. Given how poorly we've performed after our own Covid breaks, this seems wise. More games are better than fewer, but losses are worse than more games. We only know a few of the teams they reached out to. Everything else is speculation and projection not based in the facts of the matter. For the last few weeks it would not have been possible to actually schedule games, so the discussion is not even really relevant. Ultimately it would have been nice to get a few more games in. We have no evidence that—outside of early December [I]maybe—[/I]the program didn't try themselves to do that. [/QUOTE]

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