Louisiana Officially Opens Men's Basketball Practice

[VObserver]

Their home schedule ooc is light years better than ours. It is in no way comparable. The worst team on their schedule is better than the second best team on ours.

[CajunRebel]

UT Martin 160, UNCW 33, Samford 170, SHSU 193, SFA 206, UNF 221, Houston 62, Alcorn 227

Millsaps, Loyola, Louisiana College non D 1, Savannah State 282, SLU 251, McNeese 314, Nichols 254, UNO 161.

I will take 2 top 100 home games and 3 top 200, over Bob's 1 top 200 every day.

Those are final RPI numbers from last season.

We have this discussion every single season. There are obvious reasons why UL, and every other mid major school in our region, has terrible OOC schedules. It’s not just us.

The difference between our schedule and LSU’s is that LSU can afford to pay those teams the usual going rate (roughly $100k) to visit the PMAC. We can’t.

[VObserver]

We have this discussion every single season. There are obvious reasons why UL, and every other mid major school in our region, has terrible OOC schedules. It’s not just us.

The difference between our schedule and LSU’s is that LSU can afford to pay those teams the usual going rate (roughly $100k) to visit the PMAC. We can’t.

No, but we COULD negotiate home and home deals with better schools. Nothing you can say will make me believe that nobody good will do that.

[Just1More]

Nothing you can say will make me believe that nobody good will do that.

He can call you a snowflake.

[VObserver]

He can call you a snowflake.

He can call me whatever he wants. I still won't believe the company line that we can't get good schools to come here.

[CajunRebel]

No, but we COULD negotiate home and home deals with better schools. Nothing you can say will make me believe that nobody good will do that.

Name one. Go ahead. Name a good school within driving distance that wants to do a home and home with us.

Keep in mind that of the 4 top RPI schools in our region (~5 hour radius,) we have 2 of them (UNO, La Tech) on our schedule. The third school is Houston who won't play us, and we are the fourth school.

All the other schools are garbage. All that's left is Rice, who is kinda decent but also won't play us, and all the other Southland and SWAC schools. That's it. Even LSU was 198.

This year we are playing Ole Miss, Iowa, Clemson, Wyoming/South Dakota St., and La Tech. This will be the best RPI OOC schedule we've had in decades.

[CajunRebel]

He can call you a snowflake.

No, I only call people snowflakes when they deserve it.

[Just1More]

No, I only call people snowflakes when they deserve it.

I melt you.

[VObserver]

Name one. Go ahead. Name a good school within driving distance that wants to do a home and home with us.

Keep in mind that of the 4 top RPI schools in our region (~5 hour radius,) we have 2 of them (UNO, La Tech) on our schedule. The third school is Houston who won't play us, and we are the fourth school.

All the other schools are garbage. All that's left is Rice, who is kinda decent but also won't play us, and all the other Southland and SWAC schools. That's it. Even LSU was 198.

This year we are playing Ole Miss, Iowa, Clemson, Wyoming/South Dakota St., and La Tech. This will be the best RPI OOC schedule we've had in decades.

Who says we have to stay within 5 hours? Of the road games you list only Tech is within 5 hours.

[CajunRebel]

Who says we have to stay within 5 hours? Of the road games you list only Tech is within 5 hours.

Right, we are getting paid to travel to Ole Miss and Clemson, and the rest are in a neutral site tournament like we try to play in every year. None of these are home/home. If you want good teams to come to Lafayette you have to find home/home games. Mid major teams rarely schedule home/home games with teams farther than a few hours away. It costs too much money and it makes kids miss too many classes.

So I’ll ask you again. Who would you schedule?