But you need a semblance of an opponent which these teams are not ! We are not Georgetown we are not losing to Dartmouth and if we do then so be it we weren’t winning the championship anyways
@Palatine said it best. In addition we owe it to Patrick Sellers and all the top programs owe it to HBCU's...
Can’t argue with Progress.
Oh absolutely, I have no issue scheduling a game against Coppin State or throwing Sellers a bone. 1 or 2 games like that a year are fine. Those 2, schedule 3-4 Northeast 150-250 games a year, Gavitt/B12, MTE would be a perfect schedule for me. If someone like the Bonnies want to play like this year replace one of the Northeast games
I was just thinking today that teams like Harvard are perfect early season OOC matchups.
I just don’t think this is an actual issue, I think it’s nitpicking. If it seems as though it’s effecting us in an substantial way then let’s revisit. But we are going to have more than enough cracks at those types of teams in BE play and our beginning of the season tournaments. If we are relying on a win against a Dartmouth to get into the tournament, then what they hell are we doing. I just have a hard time believing our season will ever come down to whether we played Dartmouth over Coppin St in early November
That may be true but adding AAC/A10 teams early is a about the dumbest thing you can do. You’re going to risk getting beaten (especially early before you have your team figured out) and having that kill your resume unless that other team ends up absolutely dominating their conference. Plus, they almost certainly play a different style than all the power schools you’ll play, so you won’t really be gaining the experience you want there.
Thank You. It’s the actual definition of high risk low reward. It’s an ego driven move that makes zero actual sense. If the win isn’t going to help your resume you might as well play a cupcake
They scheduled 3 HBCU's and I don't see Hurley budging on that, he takes supporting HBCU's more seriously than just about anyone and we owe it to Sellers and Central. So basically we would like two tougher opponents instead of Binghamton and LIU, I agree with that. It's unfortunate we were left out of the Gavitt games this season.
Kentucky has had the luxury of playing in the “champions” classic over the last 10 years which guarantees them a game vs KU, MSU, or Duke. I think our OOC has been pretty decent. It’s just this season seems like it’s a little thin. I just wish we had a premier OOC home game like we usually do.
Never thought I hear so many UConn fans say they were scared to play the aac or a10
Ego. Nobodies scared. There just isn’t much in it for us
This is exactly my point.
Or, alternatively, you can say maybe you have cupcakes that are ranked 150-250 rather than 250-350 for a variety of reasons.
We have the sixth most chips of any program we can have a little bit of an ego.
No one really cares if we take care of business when it matters. You won’t care in 2 months. I promise
IMO only 3 BE teams at most are gonna be ranked at any given time this year, including us. No cupcakes obvi but Nova might be the only real big boy.
Exhibition games don't count.
Good teams blowout Inferior competition. That was something we did not really do under the last regime. Remember losing to Wagner and Northeastern back to back in Gampel? Or losing to Yale? Remember needing OT to beat Columbia? When that was going on, I missed the days where we would destroy teams like that by 40-50 points. Im OK with blowing out CCSU by 50 and Coppin St by 40 because honestly, thats what we should be doing.
They sold tickets and kept score. They counted in that regard. (Fans paid to go watch the team play. They were opportunities to try things and get young guys minutes.
We will when our SOS is significantly worse than it had to be and it affects our NCAA seed line.
You're conflating a few of the objections here.
