NCAA Tournament Committee Changes Bracket Process

[LaCajunsFan]

Mike, do you have the date for the Tech game?

Dec 9th, I've seen.

[Cajunsmike]

Dec 9th, I've seen.

Dec. 9th is a Saturday. Were it played in the afternoon, trip there would be easier.

[Esqueleto]

Dec. 9th is a Saturday. Were it played in the afternoon, trip there would be easier.

For sure

[Cajunsmike]

Thanks for reminding me how bad our home non conference schedule is. I'd gotten an initial boost of adrenaline when I got my big bill today. Then I'm reminded how Big Fish schedules to boost his win loss record, not the RPI. If only he'd scheduled two top one hundred I'd willingly pay another hundred on each of my overpriced tickets.

Anyway in the end I'll be reminded none of our season matters, it's all about three wins in March. After all basketball is a minor sport at Louisiana.

I agree that many fans don't care anymore about basketball at schools like ours. A couple of back to back NCAA tournament appearances could change that. As far as home schedule is concerned we are still facing issue that schools like USM, Tulane, Rice, Houston, and Lamar refuse to play us home and home. Now you can add UNO to that number. Paying people to come here would likely hurt RPI as you would pay SWAc schools to come here and you would get only a few more to attend that game than a D2 school would draw. D2 has no impact on RPI unless you lose so in some ways you are better off with that approach. So what can be done about it. I like the idea of going to a place twice for a return visit here but the staff does not want to do that. Travel and impact on school is one reason. They don't want to play 18 road games and 13 home games as would result at times with that approach. In general, I would be OK with a few more road games but neither I nor anyone here is being listened to when it comes to scheduling decisions

[Cajunsmike]

Looks like my tickets went up by $100 from last year. Maybe we have more home games?

The excellence fee is $1 more than the actual tickets. Haha. Just noticed that

Excellence fee is tax deductible. Some companies also have matching gift policies so you may only have to pay half the requested amount.

[Cajunrunner]

As far as home schedule is concerned we are still facing issue that schools like USM, Tulane, Rice, Houston, and Lamar refuse to play us home and home. Now you can add UNO to that number.

What is the reason for this??

[CajunEXPRESS]

I agree that many fans don't care anymore about basketball at schools like ours. A couple of back to back NCAA tournament appearances could change that. As far as home schedule is concerned we are still facing issue that schools like USM, Tulane, Rice, Houston, and Lamar refuse to play us home and home. Now you can add UNO to that number. Paying people to come here would likely hurt RPI as you would pay SWAc schools to come here and you would get only a few more to attend that game than a D2 school would draw. D2 has no impact on RPI unless you lose so in some ways you are better off with that approach. So what can be done about it. I like the idea of going to a place twice for a return visit here but the staff does not want to do that. Travel and impact on school is one reason. They don't want to play 18 road games and 13 home games as would result at times with that approach. In general, I would be OK with a few more road games but neither I nor anyone here is being listened to when it comes to scheduling decisions

Mike you've bought into the it can't be done catagory. I'm pretty sure Dr. Maggard won't accept this style of scheduling excuses for too long.

The reason we cannot get home and home with some teams you mentioned is our own abismal RPI. I'm suggesting teams in the top 100 RPI Mike, not SWAC, or SLC teams. You have to be more interested in your RPI than your bottom line.

But Marlin is in good company that's the way almost every SBC team schedules.

[California Cajun]

Mike you've bought into the it can't be done catagory. I'm pretty sure Dr. Maggard won't accept this style of scheduling excuses for too long.

The reason we cannot get home and home with some teams you mentioned is our own abismal RPI. I'm suggesting teams in the top 100 RPI Mike, not SWAC, or SLC teams. You have to be more interested in your RPI than your bottom line.

But Marlin is in good company that's the way almost every SBC team schedules.

I think you asked the $64,000 question. What is Maggard's philosophy about scheduling? How does he juggle the ball$ between a team's performance and facility upgrades? It's hard for me to figure out just what can be accomplished and what realistic expectations are.

[Cajunsmike]

Mike you've bought into the it can't be done catagory. I'm pretty sure Dr. Maggard won't accept this style of scheduling excuses for too long.

The reason we cannot get home and home with some teams you mentioned is our own abismal RPI. I'm suggesting teams in the top 100 RPI Mike, not SWAC, or SLC teams. You have to be more interested in your RPI than your bottom line.

But Marlin is in good company that's the way almost every SBC team schedules.

I am not in category it cannot be done. As I said earlier I would play a few more road games to improve RPI. You may also have a point in that were we to have notable success for a couple of years, we may be able to attract higher quality opponents to come here. As things stand however, we will not be able to get teams in the top 100 to come here with out doing things like 2 for 1. I already said I would consider such a move for some teams

[Cajunsmike]

What is the reason for this??

Reason those schools don't want to play home and home is belief a loss to us would hurt their recruiting. StAte education administrators had to get involved to get the UNO series done. Now that they have done that, they have no interest in renewing.

[Cajunsmike]

I think you asked the $64,000 question. What is Maggard's philosophy about scheduling? How does he juggle the ball$ between a team's performance and facility upgrades? It's hard for me to figure out just what can be accomplished and what realistic expectations are.

Realistic expectation to me is a year like 2013-14 happen much more frequently. When that was over CBS sports ranked our overall program in top 40 in nation. Very few mid majors were even close to that

[CajunEXPRESS]

I am not in category it cannot be done. As I said earlier I would play a few more road games to improve RPI. You may also have a point in that were we to have notable success for a couple of years, we may be able to attract higher quality opponents to come here. As things stand however, we will not be able to get teams in the top 100 to come here with out doing things like 2 for 1. I already said I would consider such a move for some teams

That's why I said charge another hundred per season tickets and you'd have the money for good visitors to build RPI. Two good schools instead of SWAC or non division one schools.