Basketball Scheduling Changes

[Duggie35]

I like the changes Mike. The SBC needs to also stop scheduling non-D1 schools. Maybe this will help. I like the on campus games for the first few rounds and moving to the Smoothy King is a great improvement. Not sure how all this will work long term, but something needed to change. Let’s see how this works.

[Cajunsmike]

I like the changes Mike. The SBC needs to also stop scheduling non-D1 schools. Maybe this will help. I like the on campus games for the first few rounds and moving to the Smoothy King is a great improvement. Not sure how all this will work long term, but something needed to change. Let’s see how this works.

I agree with your points here.

[CajunPride]

I like any change that helps your best team through the whole year get to wreak havoc in the big dance. Also reduces the watered down home schedule which will attract more fan attendance for home games, especially in the last month of the season.

[Cajunsmike]

Mike, schedule a non div I program and your RPI is neutral. In a very real way that's a loss of RPI. Schedule an elite on the road, lose and improve your RPI. So yes standing still can hurt.

We need to eradicate this bogus nonsense that playing a non Div I isn't harmful. Granted it’s not as harmful as beating #225 rated RPI teams.

Jay strongly advocated they be done away with on his show today. Note the scheduling changes don’t go into effect this season so we may have one or two again this coming year. Perhaps they disappear in 2019-2020.

[Cajun Troll]

With the mirror scheduling starting this season. Is this going to put the women's team in EKL Gym instead of the Cajundome for home games.
The other thing to note is that the Cajundome will have to avoid scheduling anything else during the conference basketball tourneys as they have to have dates available for the on campus site games.

[Cajun90]

Jay strongly advocated they be done away with on his show today. Note the scheduling changes don’t go into effect this season so we may have one or two again this coming year. Perhaps they disappear in 2019-2020.

Getting rid of them isn't the big part of the equation however. Who do you replace them with? If you can't replace them with a Div 1 team that historically has a good win/lose record (approx top 150 rpi) you do more harm than good.

[CajunNation]

Getting rid of them isn't the big part of the equation however. Who do you replace them with? If you can't replace them with a Div 1 team that historically has a good win/lose record (approx top 150 rpi) you do more harm than good.

We can kitty foot around this for as long as we want, but mid majors will no longer be able to get at-larges with just wins. We will have to schedule tougher to get more opportunities for quality RPI wins. That will mean going on the road a few more times each season, a couple less home games each season. What we do with those opportunities is up to us.

There are no guarantees. We might schedule tough and they turn out to be low RPI schools that season, but not trying is inexcusable.

I can't imagine one player who would rather play Delta State at home than go on the road at a big time college basketball school.

[talktomewillis]

The days of at-large bids for mid majors is over, unless you win 30 games and even then it's not a given. Unless you beat Kansas or something.

The strengthening of schedule can, however, help in a seeding if you make the tournament as an automatic, as will this new scheduling philosophy.

But in my opinion, the at-large thing ain't happenin any more.

[CajunNation]

The days of at-large bids for mid majors is over, unless you win 30 games and even then it's not a given. Unless you beat Kansas or something.

The strengthening of schedule can, however, help in a seeding if you make the tournament as an automatic, as will this new scheduling philosophy.

But in my opinion, the at-large thing ain't happenin any more.

IF there is an at-large for a mid-major, this is the only way it will come. However, like you said, the benefits of scheduling much tougher will be felt conference wide.

We are not re-inventing the wheel here. This has been done before by the MVC.

[cajun_lannister]

The days of at-large bids for mid majors is over, unless you win 30 games and even then it's not a given. Unless you beat Kansas or something.

The strengthening of schedule can, however, help in a seeding if you make the tournament as an automatic, as will this new scheduling philosophy.

But in my opinion, the at-large thing ain't happenin any more.

Take out the At-large stuff I still prefer a Strong SOS even if we don't win 20 games. Iron Sharpens Iron, and with an improved OCS we maybe won't be skull dragged by any team with a pulse