This makes me feel a LITTLE better

[RaginWaldo]

BTW

If we beat Ole Miss and/or UCF, Robert Morris then I will be impressed.
I will expect to beat McNeese St., Lamar, Dillard

[I_Bleed_RED]

IBRED, you can point out RPI etc. but say you just play a TOUGH schedule. where potentially all teams that are played can positively affect your RPI, but you lose a good amount of them. Finishing barely .500 or right at .500 on the season will not make your team attractive to anybody and it is nothing to brag about.

The schedule the Cajuns play this year are WEAK and getting a pounding against one of the only Good teams on the schedule...not even a great team, just good. Shows that we have a long way to go as far as the Basketball team. I hope it happens sooner than later, but so far the hype that people give Bob Marlin is not credible. Yes we went on a run last year, but we need to be able to beat out of conference opponents just as much as conference foes and ALSO need to atleast make it to the finals of the Sun Belt Conference Tourney and not lose in the first or second round.

RPI helps when you beat the teams no one expects you to beat or win the TOUGH games. Not lose to them.

I originally thought Duquesne was a scrub team that we could've easily beaten. So when I learned that they were a team that can compete with some of the best teams in the country, I did NOT say to myself "oh if they're that good then I understand us losing that game" I don't have that mentality at all.
When I saw that Duguesne was a good basketball team I thought "oh I didn't know they were that good. I thought we lost to another Texas State(the team that upset us last year) type team"

I believe this team can turn it around. And I believe we will be in a position to make it to the NCAA tourney. And while I'm disappointed we couldn't beat Duquesne I know this loss is better in terms of RPI than losing to a Texas State. That is what I feel better about.

[RaginWaldo]

gotcha

[Cajunsmike]

Lamar will not be an easy game. Pat Knight is their coach now and they have done well in the early going. SI picked them to
win the SLC this year.