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You're kidding, right?You mean Lawson family. Mom took a job as the graduate assistant too!
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The men's basketball schedule has to balance two very important things - strength of schedule and home ticket revenue. It's almost impossible to fill out a home schedule every year without including a few teams that won't require a return game.
The notion that this year's OOC schedule was poorly planned is absurd. We scheduled 3 of the top 10 teams in the preseason polls, plus a road game at a borderline top-25 team, plus the Puerto Rico tournament. When you factor in that road and neutral court games get you bonus points in the RPI, I'd be surprised if our OOC schedule doesn't end up in the top-10 in the country.
If the conference really is going to be this bad going forward, then I agree we need to kick it up even another notch. But even the biggest AAC skeptic in the world couldn't have predicted what's gone on so far this year. When they put this schedule together and agreed to play CCSU and Coppin State, they were thinking that SMU would be a top-15 team and at least 2 other AAC programs would be tournament worthy. Hindsight is 20/20.
And can we please stop acting as if winning on the road in Florida wouldn't be a feather in our cap on Selection Sunday?
The notion that this year's OOC schedule was poorly planned is absurd. We scheduled 3 of the top 10 teams in the preseason polls, plus a road game at a borderline top-25 team, plus the Puerto Rico tournament. When you factor in that road and neutral court games get you bonus points in the RPI, I'd be surprised if our OOC schedule doesn't end up in the top-10 in the country.
If the conference really is going to be this bad going forward, then I agree we need to kick it up even another notch. But even the biggest AAC skeptic in the world couldn't have predicted what's gone on so far this year. When they put this schedule together and agreed to play CCSU and Coppin State, they were thinking that SMU would be a top-15 team and at least 2 other AAC programs would be tournament worthy. Hindsight is 20/20.
And can we please stop acting as if winning on the road in Florida wouldn't be a feather in our cap on Selection Sunday?
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We have a top 10 if not top 5 OOC this year. Some of you need to relax
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You mean Lawson family. Mom took a job as the graduate assistant too!
Escalators!!!!
It is a commonly believed opinion that Pastner sucks as a coach. His team is in a crappy conference. He has won NOTHING! He doesn't do a great job putting players in the league. The school sucks academically. The location isn't southern CA or South Beach. He doesn't have cool friends in the NBA. He isn't young and exciting anymore. Yet, he still seems to outrecruit Ollie.
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I guess it depends on what "out recruits" Ollie means huh? I mean hiring kids dad's to coach isn't exactly out recruiting anyone and taking kids in with questionable academic skills is also far from out recruiting. Never mind the fact that if you win National Championships with the kids you recruit no matter where their ranking is, who is recruiting better for their requirements to be successful?
If you feel out recruiting is a victory congrats to you but in this part of the world championships chase our team up the escalator thank you!
.......and we're good with that result .-.
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Here's the problem. Given that Tulsa is 4-3 with a loss to Oral Roberts, the only way they're sniffing the tournament is if they win multiple games against the likes of Uconn, SMU, and Cincy in conference play. And what do you think that does to Uconn, SMU, and Cincy?
The other problem is that even though Memphis and Temple are way down and almost certainly not making the tournament, those teams aren't just going to lay down and go 0-8 against Uconn/SMU/Cincy/Tulsa. Those are the worst possible conference mates to have - not good enough to be considered quality wins, but just good enough to beat you if you happen to shoot 30% on the road.
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Tulsa has beat Creighton and Auburn, and has Oklahoma on deck. They can certainly develop a tournament worthy resume.
Well it is that bad and possible worse. That's why i was saying we need to schedule MUCH better than we did this year going forward. We simply cannot count on this joke of a conference. Games against CCSU and Columbia need to be replaced with the Kansas and Michigan St's of the world going forward.. This truly is going to be a 1-2 bid league.
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That's ridiculous to ask for. Florida, Duke, Texas and Stanford as well as a tourney who would have WVU/New Mexico/Dayton on your schedule depending on how it works out is all you can ask for. You start replacing all of your lower Div 1 teams and in state teams and it's a mistake. Asking more than what they have this year is whacked I don't care what league you're in.
Dude last year we played 11 games against tournament teams during the regular season.. were lucky if we play 6-8 this year. Just don't know where you get your logic from. The schedule this year is a joke compared to even last years joke of a schedule…. Meanwhile… just to put into perspective… we played 21 games against tournament teams in 2010-2011…. So yeah… to say we need to upgrade the schedule is an UNDERSTATEMENT.
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Dude, I obviously get my logic from someone other than you dude. Yeah let's play Florida, Texas, Stanford, Duke, Michigan State, Villanova, North Carolina, UCLA, Arkansas and 2 or 3 teams in the PR Classic or the Maui every year and then play in the league. You can't go by the league completely and you can't ask the kids to play that schedule it's ridiculous. Imagine your thought process coming into this little swing with guys 80% healthy? Brilliant........but hey you're on top of it dude!
Where and how? I see 2 guaranteed OOC tournament teams at this point. You shut up moron.
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There are at least 5. If you think you are so smart,which you are not, lets put some money on this?
We can put some $$ in a neutral Paypal account. I say there are 4 or more OOC NCAA tournament teams on the schedule?
Or can you only call people morons and not put your money where your mouth is?
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Which is it "at least 5" or "4" I think you should decided what it is your actually betting on before you go spouting your mouth off.
And yes.. I'll bet you whatever you want that we don't play 5 OOC tournament teams.
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You think there are only two tournament teams out of Dayton, West Virginia, Texas, Duke, Florida, and Stanford? It's early, but Lunardi has them all as tournament teams.
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You said 2, should we go by that? I was being generous and giving you 4.
Sit down, and try reading, I stated the bet "I say there are 4 or more OOC NCAA tournament teams on the schedule".
Can you handle that? For $500?
Maybe Mau or Fishy, or someone who has been on this site a long time and is trusted can take in the money, or if there is a site that handles this we can use that.
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Ok there's basically 100% of the replies going against your predictions and theories here yet you called xls a moron? Hmmmm?
Florida is 3 - 3 and almost lost to UL Monroe in OT. They have looked lost so far this year. I know they are banged up but they really have looked terrible. Stanford got beat by 20 points to Depaul? Yes to Duke, Texas and probably WVU. I haven't seen Dayton except when they played us so I can't comment on them but from the looks of there schedule they haven't impressed so far.
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Ok there's basically 100% of the replies going against your predictions and theories here yet you called xls a moron? Hmmmm?
Again… reading comprehension… I said "GUARENTEED" tournament teams. Hard to call Florida and Stanford IN at this point of the season. If the season ended today they aren't IN.
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Seriously think about this. The schedule is made up to 3-5 years in advance. You have those 4 on your schedule going in with the chance of playing Dayton/New Mexico/BC/West Virginia the thought then is you're playing at least 4-6 guaranteed tourney teams. Not fair to go by now because we're talking scheduling right? Even so Florida at 3-3 with losses at Miami, UNC and Gtown (more than likely all tourney team) and injured early is going to be in the tourney. Not sure what happened to Stanford vs dePaul but they are a solid team and will be there also. Looked real good against UNLV in a 30 point win and not a bad job vs Duke in a loss.
This is a good schedule, would you like to compare it to the cupcake schedule of some others?
All i ever said was the schedule needs to be much better if the AAC is going to be this bad. We need 7-10 guaranteed tournament teams OOC every year if we're in a 2 bid league and the teams are this bad. Just looking at who we played when we won in 2011.. we played 21 games against tournament teams during the regular season. With this many sub 90-100 teams in the AAC our RPI is going to be brutal at the end of the year. It doesn't help beating those teams and imagine losing to a few of them. This is literally a 1 bid league.
Uconn (37)
SMU (77)
Tulsa (91)
Houston (90)
Cincinnati (92) tie
South Florida (92) tie
UCF (113)
Temple (131)
Tulane (198)
Memphis (244)
East Carolina (345)
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Not worth it with you, move on!
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