Drew
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Such as ...Auburn?
I would play @ Auburn 4 times in a row in basketball if we could get a H/H with them in football
Such as ...Auburn?
Yep the Zona, Indiana and UNC series of the early-mid 2000s were incredible. You're spot on about the tournaments taking away from home and homes.College basketball needs more out of conference home and home series in general. There are just so many tournaments and made for TV neutral court games now. Some of UConn's most exciting games were the marquee home and homes.
You're acting like we don't have home and homes scheduled with multiple top P5 teams every year, including this year, and years out into the future. There's just an imbalance with home vs. road right now.Look at it from the vantage point of a top p5 team. With a schedule that is already challenging plus high profile neutral tournaments why would they want to add us? Maybe a lower or mid level P5 but they would want a home and home too. What about an SEC team?
Saying it's an imbalance is understating things - we have zero good home OOC games.You're acting like we don't have home and homes scheduled with multiple top P5 teams every year, including this year, and years out into the future. There's just an imbalance with home vs. road right now.
Jesus some of you people are insufferable.
Theyre playing:
Cuse @MSG
@ Ohio State
@ Georgetown
In the Maui invitational with Georgetown, North Carolina, Ok St, Oregon, Tennesee, and Wisconsin.
You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
The RPI isn't the issue here because of the great neutral and road schedule.Jesus some of you people are insufferable.
Theyre playing:
Cuse @MSG
@ Ohio State
@ Georgetown
In the Maui invitational with Georgetown, North Carolina, Ok St, Oregon, Tennesee, and Wisconsin.
You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
Tough to say that Auburn will be a top 70 RPI team. They were 175 at the end of last year and will need to replace 3 of their top 4 scorers. I'm not as upset with this game as others seem to be, but if we were to win this game, we'd be very fortunate if it Auburn ended up as a top 100 RPI opponent.You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
There are some good teams in Maui, but we could end up with Chaminade, Tennessee, and Oklahoma State just as easily as Oregon, UNC, Wisconsin. But back to Auburn. Auburn hasn't been top 125 in RPI for 6+ years (not sure how far back, only looked at the ESPN rankings quickly). They've gone 26-40 under Pearl. They should be significantly better next year, but yet a bubble team at best. This addition wasn't the result of seeking an easy team to balance out the schedule, it was a result of waiting until mid-June to sign a P5 team to a H/H contract. In a time with an unsure financial future for the athletic department, having a mediocre or average SEC team as your marquee home game is a bad look, in my opinion.Jesus some of you people are insufferable.
Theyre playing:
Cuse @MSG
@ Ohio State
@ Georgetown
In the Maui invitational with Georgetown, North Carolina, Ok St, Oregon, Tennesee, and Wisconsin.
You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
Tough to say that Auburn will be a top 70 RPI team. They were 175 at the end of last year and will need to replace 3 of their top 4 scorers. I'm not as upset with this game as others seem to be, but if we were to win this game, we'd be very fortunate if it Auburn ended up as a top 100 RPI opponent.
And if we lose this game it's an RPI disaster, just like most of our conference slate.
Is this really much different than another game with Tulsa or Memphis?