The PonyGrad wrote:skyscraper wrote:The collective amnesia on this board is astonishing.
We had a great tournament worthy team Larry's second year and they got left out because of a weak OOC schedule. LB and crew immediately scheduled up to fix that bc the goal is getting to the NCAA.
The only goal of this schedule is racking up empty wins so Jank can stay HC. It's the most selfish thing I've seen in a while from someone at SMU.
And you know this how exactly??
He doesn't - he will never accept that Jank may not suck and everything is his and the administrations fault. It's BS - here are some facts.
In Larry's second year 2013 - 2014, SMU was 27-10 and 12 - 6 in conference. We lost road games to unranked Cinn, South FLA, and Temple. We lost the last 2 games of the regular season and the opening round game of the American tournament to an unranked Houston team at a neutral location. That makes more sense as to what doomed us - we lost some unfortunate road games and played bad at the end of the season - our supposed SOS and marquee wins earlier did not factor in. Louisville got the automatic bid and Cinn, UConn, and Memphis (all with better records) got At-Large bids from the American.
In 2014 - 2015, regardless of how much better our strength of schedule was, we made the tournament -- because -- wait for it -- we got an automatic bid for winning the conference tournament!!! Surprise!! Surprise!! (Gomer Pyle voice)
Ineligible 2015-2016 (Thanks Larry)
In 2016 - 2017 we made the tournament -- because -- wait for it -- wait for it - we got an automatic bid for winning the conference tournament!!! Surprise!! Surprise!! (louder Gomer Pyle voice)
So, don't worry about SOS and the BS people will spin in the media and selection committees - Win Baby Win - Control your own destiny - We are NOT a joke - PONY UP!! - BEAT Georgetown!!