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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3366681, member: 199"] If this is true and if it carries over it would be interesting and a little problematic. The concept is to improve the conference RPI as a whole since RPI is a combination of your record, your opponents record, and your opponents opponents record. The problems I see are: 1. RPI is a broad brush and the difference between RPI 125 and RPI 200 is not significant especially for a most P5 schools. 2. There are historic games and competitions like the five colleges competition around Philadelphia or competitions within state school systems that might not be competitive but should not be arbitrarily ended. Uconn had special agreements with Holy Cross and Hartford for example. 3. Many colleges control significant costs by competing in their OC against schools in local areas. 4. Many colleges also increase the number of their home games by playing schools at home that do not demand a reciprocal home game. 5. Some schools with weak RPI actually make money for their program by agreeing to play the away game against a P5 school - either by direct fee or by percentage of gate receipts. 6. A game like Uconn at Colgate is actually fun for both teams even though it is a blow-out. A home game for a great player, and a celebration and sold out crowd for a team that hadn't had one before. 7. Most importantly it will become a way for P5 schools to consolidate their distance from non-P5 schools - the worst teams in the P5 will have better RPI than those isolated from being able to play against the P5 schools. A mid-major power school actually can benefit from having lesser teams in their league play good P5 schools because it raises their RPI. I could see this being better if it was done as an 'average' rather than an absolute cut-off. Seeing top 25 teams coming into conference play with a 150+ SOS is pretty appalling and not best for WCBB. [/QUOTE]

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