completely agree with all of this. so the question for Louisiana, is it worth it to us, as we try to build a consistent at-large bubble level program,( just start by trying to make it to the bubble year in and year out) to lose a couple low to no rpi home games for high rpi road games?
Anything that helps not having to pay to see games against Loyola, Millsaps, Panhandle State, West Florida, etc. is a plus!
It does not, but it gives you 22 games. You will now have 20 conference games and 2 alliance games. You are allowed 29 unless you play in an exempt tournaments which can get you to 31. It should allow fewer non D1 games. Right now you are allowed 2 non D1 games, I would hope most schools reduce it to 1 with the scheduling help they are now receiving. On another matter, the league is keeping Mark Adams on as a scheduling facilitator according to what Commissioner Benson said yesterday. He probably will be the one deciding which alliance games are played within the three leagues. My hope is that he can get us more D1 games against other leagues besides those in the alliance.
Commissioner Benson in his interview yesterday with Jay indicated the Horizon and CUSA are the alliance leagues. AD Bryan Maggard did the same this morning in his interview with Steve and Cody. It appears that the presidents have put economics ahead of the egos of some fans. They don't have much choice in the world of today. I think fans are overreacting. You will probably play one game against each of the alliance leagues. That means CUSA teams will likely have to play one SBC team per year and it will be at home every other year. That won't kill any of their programs.
I realize that, but as Jay Walker mentioned on his broadcast yesterday, these extra guaranteed games should eliminate any excused for scheduling non-D1's in the future! These two new Alliance games could simply replace the 2 non-D1's we have been seeing each year even if everything else just remains the same.
This is a positive step, but I feel like people are forgetting the fact that these are still reallly crappy basketball leagues. There are more teams we don’t want to play in those conferences than teams we do want to play. Only 4 of 14 C-USA teams were in the top 150 in RPI. Only 2 of 10 Horizon teams were in the top 150.
I’d be curious to know how secheduling will work for this.
Basically, top top RPI teams from your league will play the top RPI teams from the other leagues. Subsequently, the middle plays the middle and the worst RPI plays the worst RPI.
The idea is to protect your good RPI teams while making non-conference scheduling a liitle easier for everyone.
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