Meanwhile, Cajuns have the best basketball team in LA

[CajunNation]

Padding your win total can help in recruiting.

C'mon Turbine. Are you actually trying to tell me that DII games HELP recruiting?

[talktomewillis]

And lets' remember you have to get the other team to agree.

NMSU was brought up.

They have an auto four games every year against UNM and UTEP. They don't have NEARLY as much trouble filling out a schedule.

[RaginDave]

And lets' remember you have to get the other team to agree.

NMSU was brought up.

They have an auto four games every year against UNM and UTEP. They don't have NEARLY as much trouble filling out a schedule.

Right the one thing that all of these guys who are blasting our schedule fail to realize is that it takes 2 to tango, so to speak. We can "WANT" to play anyone of of 350 other D-1 teams. But for the game to actually occur, that team needs to have an opening for the date you are looking for and more importantly actually agree to want to play you. I am sure their are allot of teams that we "WANT" to play us and many of them don't "WANT" to play us. And their a lot of teams that might "WANT" to play us, but we don't "WANT" to play them. Or finally the 3rd piece to the puzzle is what "TYPE" of game to you "WANT" vs what "TYPE of GAMES" to they "WANT". Meaning you might want a home and home, or just a home, but they might want a 2 for 1. That is where the contract breaks down.

It is not always as simple as I "WANT" to play more Top 150 RPI teams.

[Cajunfanatico]

Historically the AD doesn’t do the MBB schedule. Y’all can bet your bottom dollar he sets the tone, budget, and expectations.

Unfortunately some of you guys keep thinking THIS year,last year, us. Think conference, strategic five years goals.

We don’t need a wholesale change in scheduling. UL needs to change two or three games a year. The SBC each needs to follow suit. Doing this would make a big difference in our champs chances.

Sure I love beating teams by 37. It’s just not going to help us 3 games in March, and hopefully 3 games into the Big Dance.

Again for a few knuckleheads I don’t dislike Bob Marlin. I don’t hope he fails, just the opposite I hope he incredibly successful. He’s been here most a decade. He seems to have had a large sample of mediocrity. I do want better, and right now his mediocre career is tolarated. Let’s see if 2017/18 results in better? Until it does I’m not sold on the guy. Weak scheduling, never finishing in top two regular season, one top three, isn’t a resume I’d hire, why’d I want to keep renewing that.

There's a new sheriff in town. All the pieces are in place for us to have one heck of a season in basketball this year. If Marlin doesn't come close with the talent we have, I bet he's going to feel some heat............assuming he hasn't already.

[VObserver]

And 2 years later, a dumpster fire, dragging the conference down.

Sustainable success is what we both desire.

Because their coach got hired away, and they made a bad hire to replace him. Beard was the best coach in the conference by a huge margin. And by huge, I mean he could trade rosters with Hunter or Marlin and beat them with their players, then trade back and beat them with his.

[Turbine]

Then you play a couple more road money games.

Kill 2 birds with one stone. Pay bills and boost RPI.

Heck, we just might win one, and I'll guarantee you we'll be a better club come tourney time.

Then, you might have a little left over to purchase a good home opponent.

I think the time is now for your idea, however if Marlin had jumped the gun with your plan when he first got here (or even a few years later) it would have been death sentence 2.0 for UL Basketball.

Marlin is handling certain portions needed in the rebuilding of UL basketball satisfactorily.

1) Pad the record
2) Recruit players.
3) Pad the record some more.
4) Recruit even better players
Next steps:
5) Win some regular and post season SBC titles
6) Improve OOC scheduling.
7) Play every year in the NCAA
8) * If 7 misses, Never turn down lesser post season experience.
9) Play no one higher than a 4-seed in the NCAA tournament.
10) * Play anybody anywhere in a lesser tournament.

* There is no substitute for "__ Consecutive Postseason Appearances" in recruiting.

[Turbine]

C'mon Turbine. Are you actually trying to tell me that DII games HELP recruiting?

Absolutely, because "20 wins in each of the last 5-years" has never been researched in a recruiting visit conversation.

[CajunJeaux]

Then you play a couple more road money games.

Kill 2 birds with one stone. Pay bills and boost RPI.

Heck, we just might win one, and I'll guarantee you we'll be a better club come tourney time.

Then, you might have a little left over to purchase a good home opponent.

We replace those home games with your suggested money games then we have people complaining we don't have enough home games to reward our fans...just like the football schedule...

[Just1More]

BS--The same complaints over and over is not intelligent discourse. Its easy to say we want to bring in Wichita State, Valpo, etc. The reasons why its hard to do have been laid out but we still persist with the same tired argument. It doesnt take an intelligent poster to write "We want a better schedule". I think everyone does.
What really seems to be the reason for the posts is to take continued shots at our basketball coach. Posters have a right to do that and I will continue to exercise my right to call it out 2 or 3 times a year.

I think this site has had... and largely due to VO and Express's "complaints"... very solid discussions on basketball scheduling and RPI. It's not an easy nut to crack. But a lot of the criticism is valid. I happen to like Bob Marlin and how he's managed the teams... so how this indicts him is irrelevant to me. I am interested in reading what measures are available (or not) to improve our RPI. I realize our conference is dragging us down... but we are part of that drag... not just the victim.

I'll say this about Marlin... if we are required to be 27-5 to be the least bit relevant... or always be the champion of the conference tourney to be relevant... we have to have a coach that can deliver it. A gaudy record that cannot deliver a nice post season appearance... or places us at a 15 seed in the NCAAs... is a complete BS payoff for UL basketball. Either hammer out what it takes to improve on that... or quit wasting money on MBB.

[CajunNation]

We replace those home games with your suggested money games then we have people complaining we don't have enough home games to reward our fans...just like the football schedule...

..., and they're BOTH WRONG.