Jordan Brown

[campo118]

Texas Tech didn’t have the big 12 freshman of the year in baseball… who are you referring to?

[BeauCajun]

Texas Tech didn’t have the big 12 freshman of the year in baseball… who are you referring to?

Basketball thread

[Cajunsmike]

I bet this is met with a resounding sound of crickets just like when it is asked who else besides Des did you want us to hire, what would be the realistic cost and where would we get the money . . .

Realistically, no amount of money will get a name team to the Dome. Major schools look to minimize the no. of true road games they play-period. They count neutral court games as road games in the early season tournaments. There are exceptions of course although they are very rare. I don't recall which Alabama SBC school played Auburn this year. However it was a 2 for 1 deal. Our administration does not support contracts of that nature. It is always possible that view changes at some point. For now, that means the best opponents we can buy are probably schools in conferences like the Big West or Horizon. Regardless of all that, reducing the no. of non D1 games is a step in the right direction for the league.

[RaginDave]

Realistically, no amount of money will get a name team to the Dome. Major schools look to minimize the no. of true road games they play-period. They count neutral court games as road games in the early season tournaments. There are exceptions of course although they are very rare. I don't recall which Alabama SBC school played Auburn. However it was a 2 for 1 deal. Our administration does not support does type contracts.

I have said it for years, we need to do whatever it takes to get high quality mid majors to play us, both home and away. I remember a few years back and I forgot who it was but it was a west coast (pretty good mid major, maybe UCSB or Long Beach) played someone in our conference in a home and home in the same season. I know we are doing that with the MAC this year, but with so many quality mid majors looking for opponents, why can't we work deals out like we do in football. Have a home and home in various years against each other. I don't even care if it is we play you next year and you come back to us in 2027. But start building a resume of teams that you can work with. We do it in football, can it not be done in basketball the same way. I will open this up to CM as I know he will have the correct answer.

Our football schedule is built out years in advance, why exactly can we not do something similar in basketball with some pretty solid mid major teams. I know there is no guarantee they will be good then, but if a team is traditionally pretty good, they will still be pretty good.

Conferences like CUSA, AAC, A10, WAC, IVY League, Missouri Valley, ASUN, Big West, Summit and others are traditionally not bad conferences to chose from. Others could include the MAC, America East, Colonial, Southern, Big Sky, ETC.

I know these teams might not excite many of our fans, but they can be teams that are better than what we have traditionally gotten into the dome.

[Million$Mullet]

Realistically, no amount of money will get a name team to the Dome. Major schools look to minimize the no. of true road games they play-period. They count neutral court games as road games in the early season tournaments. There are exceptions of course although they are very rare. I don't recall which Alabama SBC school played Auburn this year. However it was a 2 for 1 deal. Our administration does not support contracts of that nature. It is always possible that view changes at some point. For now, that means the best opponents we can buy are probably schools in conferences like the Big West or Horizon. Regardless of all that, reducing the no. of non D1 games is a step in the right direction for the league.

Alabama played at south Alabama this year and auburn did a few years ago as well.

[CajunT]

I have said it for years, we need to do whatever it takes to get high quality mid majors to play us, both home and away. I remember a few years back and I forgot who it was but it was a west coast (pretty good mid major, maybe UCSB or Long Beach) played someone in our conference in a home and home in the same season. I know we are doing that with the MAC this year, but with so many quality mid majors looking for opponents, why can't we work deals out like we do in football. Have a home and home in various years against each other. I don't even care if it is we play you next year and you come back to us in 2027. But start building a resume of teams that you can work with. We do it in football, can it not be done in basketball the same way. I will open this up to CM as I know he will have the correct answer.

Our football schedule is built out years in advance, why exactly can we not do something similar in basketball with some pretty solid mid major teams. I know there is no guarantee they will be good then, but if a team is traditionally pretty good, they will still be pretty good.

Conferences like CUSA, AAC, A10, WAC, IVY League, Missouri Valley, ASUN, Big West, Summit and others are traditionally not bad conferences to chose from. Others could include the MAC, America East, Colonial, Southern, Big Sky, ETC.

I know these teams might not excite many of our fans, but they can be teams that are better than what we have traditionally gotten into the dome.

Schedule Conglomerates is the way to go between the conferences you have listed. The SBC is just now beginning to work through this concept with the agreement with the MAC. While some of those conferences have similar concerns with the lower rpi programs similar to the SBC, there are some very good individual programs that exist in their conferences.

Coming out of Covid, most G5 programs needed the pay dates from power programs to balance their budgets. That focus needs to change now to working with other G5 conferences in scheduling agreements moving forward.

[RaginDave]

Schedule Conglomerates is the way to go between the conferences you have listed. The SBC is just now beginning to work through this concept with the agreement with the MAC. While some of those conferences have similar concerns with the lower rpi programs similar to the SBC, there are some very good individual programs that exist in their conferences.

Coming out of Covid, most G5 programs needed the pay dates from power programs to balance their budgets. That focus needs to change now to working with other G5 conferences in scheduling agreements moving forward.

I'm not saying we don't use the P5 games, but we must work out deals with teams for home and home's over various years. They need us as much as we need them (mid majors), screw the McNeese's and Tulane's and etc who don't want to play us, I would much rather see a Liberty or Iona or Bradley or Utah Valley or Hofstra or Vermont or New Mexico or San Jose State or Southern Illinois or Dayton or Furman or UNC Asheville or the likes who need us as much as we need them and still play 1 or 2 P5's annually to go with those teams. A nice mix of home and away G5's coupled with a neutral site tournament and then 1 or 2 P5's is the best case scenario.

[Turbine]

... However it was a 2 for 1 deal. Our administration does not support contracts of that nature...

How dumb.

..It is always possible that view changes at some point...

Let's hope.

[R1Letterman]

If a player in the portal doesn't transfer is the default that they are still at old school in the ncaa's eyes?

And are releases still required?

[CajunVic]

dumb is a strong word . . .

[Turbine]

Until they clearly vocalize thier reasoning, they lack the human power of speech in order to explain their complacency.

[ZoomZoom]

I'm not saying we don't use the P5 games, but we must work out deals with teams for home and home's over various years. They need us as much as we need them (mid majors), screw the McNeese's and Tulane's and etc who don't want to play us, I would much rather see a Liberty or Iona or Bradley or Utah Valley or Hofstra or Vermont or New Mexico or San Jose State or Southern Illinois or Dayton or Furman or UNC Asheville or the likes who need us as much as we need them and still play 1 or 2 P5's annually to go with those teams. A nice mix of home and away G5's coupled with a neutral site tournament and then 1 or 2 P5's is the best case scenario.

I’m really surprised UL
would consider any team coached by Will Wade.