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[QUOTE="HookC22, post: 4648145, member: 10578"]
Yea the OOC scheduling is so hard to predict. Its usually booked 1-3 years ahead for the early South/West trips so you have to hope those teams are still trending up in their own RPI/brand to help our SOS both in the RPI and on the "eye test".  So I wouldnt say Penders is shying away from the competition necessarily but yes its not like we are going to take 3 pay to play weekends to start the season at top SEC teams.

The one other factor in terms of your volume comment is that the Big East  only has 8 teams and 7 weekends of conference play. (Old Big East was a 9 weekends and 27 games and the American was  8 weekends for 24 games). That leaves 35 non conference games and two extra weekends for non conference matchups. Chris Jones has also mentioned that is been challenging for us to either get quality opponents to come play us at home or even sometimes get us to visit them becuase we are a tough team. Rutgers was a good example of benefitting both teams (after Rutgers didnt make the field a few years ago) but not many other bigger name teams have been willing to take us on.
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