LSU/UL NIT matchup

[CajunNation]

With the exception of Tech, none of the other schools will do that. Some won’t even play us from what I understand.

I know. It's very short sighted and childish behavior by the other schools, but just wanted to reiterate that effort should be made constantly. Although, if we get our RPI high enough, they will start magically returning those phone calls.

[SlappyCajun]

Do as many 1 for 1's with UH, Rice, Tech, Tulane and USM that you can.

Why would you advocate playing Rice and USM? Rice's RPI was 325. USM was 206. In fact, with the exception of Houston, Nicholls and Southeastern's RPI was higher than all of those teams this year.

[HoustonCajun]

Why would you advocate playing Rice and USM? Rice's RPI was 325. USM was 206. In fact, with the exception of Houston, Nicholls and Southeastern's RPI was higher than all of those teams this year.

It's not just RPI, its perception. I would rather have Rice and USM on our schedule than Nichols, SE Louisiana, McNeese, Savannah State, New Orleans, Loyola New Orleans, and Louisiana College. Besides, if we are ever moving to a better conference, we need to be playing schools in those better conferences. Just look at the NIT. We have a better RPI than LSU, a better record and a better facility, yet LSU got the higher seed. We have to change the perception of who we are and who we associate with by scheduling better and winning against better competition to enable us to move to a better conference and change the perception of UL.

[Clutch0364]

Lets just go ahead and schedule like Texas Southern go on the road against power teams the first 13 games of the season. Start off a solid 0-13 and make the tourney with a 15-19 record.

[sportsfanatic21]

It's not just RPI, its perception. I would rather have Rice and USM on our schedule than Nichols, SE Louisiana, McNeese, Savannah State, New Orleans, Loyola New Orleans, and Louisiana College. Besides, if we are ever moving to a better conference, we need to be playing schools in those better conferences. Just look at the NIT. We have a better RPI than LSU, a better record and a better facility, yet LSU got the higher seed. We have to change the perception of who we are and who we associate with by scheduling better and winning against better competition to enable us to move to a better conference and change the perception of UL.

I think its interesting that some would rather schedule Rice and USM than Nicholls and SLU, but there are also those that complain that LSU wont schedule us but will play Troy and UAB etc.

[VObserver]

We should not play any of those schools.

[CajunVic]

Betting line has moved from Lsu -4.5 to Lsu -3.5 today. Somebody is liking the Cajuns

[CajunNation]

Why would you advocate playing Rice and USM? Rice's RPI was 325. USM was 206. In fact, with the exception of Houston, Nicholls and Southeastern's RPI was higher than all of those teams this year.

Building relationships. Our fans can travel. We should have a general policy for all sports to schedule these schools as much as possible. Some things have greater value than RPI. However, USM is the only one of that group with historically bad RPI averages.

As for Nicholls and SLU, I'm not against playing them. They just need to meet the criteria of historically good RPI averages.

[CajunNation]

Lets just go ahead and schedule like Texas Southern go on the road against power teams the first 13 games of the season. Start off a solid 0-13 and make the tourney with a 15-19 record.

[DocCajun]

They both are going to play. How much and how effective are the real questions

Thanks for update. Fingers crossed.

I'm trying to block out the noise around this game and to be honest, I am really looking forward to watching this one tonight!

Heading to BR in a few hours