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[KnightBridgeAZ]

I agree that if we (Boneyarders) are comparing conferences, we care more about the top end than the bottom. But that's through the lens of a fan of a top team. What if you are a fan of a team ranked, say #100. You hear that the school is going to try to set up some games against one of the power conferences. They haven't yet decided whether to approach conference A or conference B.You might feel differently about say, the old Big East and the SEC. You might see several potential wins against the old BE, bit so many against the SEC. You'll lose to the top end of either conference, but by 30 to the best SEC team and by 50 to the best BE teams. You might prefer playing games against the BE, because you have a better shot at knocking off the bottom end, and you can imagine the yearly writeup - you won't say you beat Seton Hall, you'll say you took on and defeated a BE team. So you might view the BE as "weaker" simply because the top end is so far away it doesn't matter, and in the end you care about, the teas are weaker.

I'm throwing out the argument that Sagarin and others may emphasize a central tendency measure because their audience is everyone, not just fans of the top teams. I'm not sure, I'm mostly speculating.

Always schedule a weak team in a strong conference to help your RPI, particularly if you can probably win the game. Is that what you just said?

The theory is taken from a lengthy article about RPI published anonymously (it named names) by the WBCA about 15 or so years ago, and I think it is still true today. I came across a hard copy a few years ago and, while the names were no longer the same, the theories presented seemed correct.

 

[Phil]

Yes, that follows.

 

[Phil]

Tenn up 24-4 over Carson Newman so far. Online, if anyone cares.

 

[Phil]

According to the site there's a Comerical(sic) break in progress.

Izzy now with 10 points.

 

[semper]

Look, it's very simple: we gotta get out of here. And wait and see, we will.

 

[connboy77]

I would love to see UCONN in The Big 10, but football is killing our chances.

 

[Icebear]

I would love to see UCONN in The Big 10, but football is killing our chances.

The next hire of a football coach at UCONN maybe the most important decision of Manuel and Herbst careers. Prestige and economically it has the potential to have incalculable impact on the future of the university.

 

[doggydaddy]

Won't every member of the AAC have their SOS and then relative RPI increase by playing Uconn twice? Using last years numbers for this year makes no sense. You won't know conference RPI standings until much later in the season.

It's too early for any guesses on the conference RPI for 2014-15 after Louisville and Rutgers leaves. AAC teams could improve their schedules and might be improved teams using Uconn games as a recruiting tool.

I'm willing to see how the season plays out, including the disposition of the 2014 recruiting class before pushing the panic button.

 

[boontonbomber]

The next hire of a football coach at UCONN maybe the most important decision of Manuel and Herbst careers. Prestige and economically it has the potential to have incalculable impact on the future of the university.

though i understand where you're coming from, i would hope that the hiring of a football coach would not be Herbst' most important decision in her career at uconn.

 

[Icebear]

though i understand where you're coming from, i would hope that the hiring of a football coach would not be Herbst' most important decision in her career at uconn.

Whether we want it to be or not it likely is because of its potential impact on the financial impact on the university in our present culture. There is the potential in the moment to lose 20+ years of progress at UCONN. We may not want to believe that but it is certainly possible.