What middle of the road teams could SMU play next year?

[Rebel10]

Be it either at home or away.

[RGV Pony]

BYU
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Alabama
Clemson
Va Tech
Colorado
Arizona St


..oh yeah, remember how we rolled Colorado in a scrimmage? Just swell that they are in the tourney.

[Pony ^]

LSU, A&M, Tech, La Tech, New Mexico, A cali team

[gostangs]

compared to us, Baylor is pretty middle of the road. Lets play them.

[Pony ^]

Let's schedule Duke and kick Krzyzewski in the mouth

[Pony147]

UTEP finished with an RPI of 96 and is (relatively) close. They travel pretty well too.
Sam Houston St. had an RPI of 113. Keep them on the schedule!
UTA had an RPI of 200. This should be our dump game.
I also like LA Tech. RPI of 59 and will probably be dying for a good OOC game.
I would also love a middle of the road Big East team
And any other Big 12 team in addition to TCU (if they will grace us with their scheduling presence)

[Zman89]

SMU plays at Indiana next year.

[ponyte]

Northwestern. May be low in the RPI but is a Big 10 team which gets tons of love.

UMass, George Washington or Dayton. The Selection committee had an orgasm over the Atlantic 10 this year.

Rutgers. No longer a conference team and also going to a conference that the committee loves.

Pitt. We beat them every time (in football at least).

Minnesota. Another Big 10 opportunity for committee love.

Purdue. Big 10 baby.

I think we could get good games against a variety of teams that the Selection committee highly regards on paper and is blind as a bat when it comes to the ‘eye’ test.

[Pony147]

Minnesota. Another Big 10 opportunity for committee love.

Good luck getting Richard Pitino (sound familiar?) to come down to Moody

[Rebel10]

Good list that you guys are forming. I also think that any NIT team would be good to add to the schedule. We still need some easy games to add wins but adding a few middle of the road teams to the schedule helps. The MAC also has some decent middle of the road teams.

[Rebel10]

SMU plays at Indiana next year.

True but that is just one game. We need about 5 decent games.

[RebStang]

Good list that you guys are forming. I also think that any NIT team would be good to add to the schedule. We still need some easy games to add wins but adding a few middle of the road teams to the schedule helps. The MAC also has some decent middle of the road teams.

Let's just follow the BYU model... schedule some Division II teams, get beat by every top 25 team we play, and coast through a weak conference (while still losing to every decent team in the league) and get our bid.

[Pony ^]

Good list that you guys are forming. I also think that any NIT team would be good to add to the schedule. We still need some easy games to add wins but adding a few middle of the road teams to the schedule helps. The MAC also has some decent middle of the road teams.

Let's just follow the BYU model... schedule some Division II teams, get beat by every top 25 team we play, and coast through a weak conference (while still losing to every decent team in the league) and get our bid.

or the Kansas model. Schedule every tough team in the nation, lose half of them and end up with a 2 seed.

[Rebel10]

Let's just follow the BYU model... schedule some Division II teams, get beat by every top 25 team we play, and coast through a weak conference (while still losing to every decent team in the league) and get our bid.

or the Kansas model. Schedule every tough team in the nation, lose half of them and end up with a 2 seed.

How about somewhere in between those 2 extremes.

[RebStang]

Let's just follow the BYU model... schedule some Division II teams, get beat by every top 25 team we play, and coast through a weak conference (while still losing to every decent team in the league) and get our bid.

or the Kansas model. Schedule every tough team in the nation, lose half of them and end up with a 2 seed.

How about somewhere in between those 2 extremes.

While the schedule does need to be toughened up, that was just the excuse used this year for a decision that was made because of committee politics and outside pressure. Yes, it made it far too easy of an excuse to use but, with no representation on the committee and other factors, SMU was just too easy to leave out in favor of a program with better "connections".

In reality, SMU could have played the same non-conference schedule as BYU and probably would have still been left out because the committee wanted other teams in.

The reason I say that is because there is always an excuse when a lesser known team gets left out... in years past it was "last 10 games", this year it's strength of schedule... next year it will be something different for some less known team that gets excluded to make room for a more nationally known team.