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Rice has played Oklahoma (today), Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and TCU twice this year (home and away). And their lesser games have been against Richmond, Lamar, Texas State, La Monroe and others. One soft game to open the season, but no SC Upstates or Houston Baptists on the rest of their schedule like we find littered throughout ours. Rice acts more like a D-1 school than we do.

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Hoop Fan wrote:Rice has played Oklahoma (today), Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and TCU twice this year (home and away). And their lesser games have been against Richmond, Lamar, Texas State, La Monroe and others. One soft game to open the season, but no SC Upstates or Houston Baptists on the rest of their schedule like we find littered throughout ours. Rice acts more like a D-1 school than we do.

Yeah and Rice is also 3-10.

perunapower wrote:

Hoop Fan wrote:Rice has played Oklahoma (today), Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and TCU twice this year (home and away). And their lesser games have been against Richmond, Lamar, Texas State, La Monroe and others. One soft game to open the season, but no SC Upstates or Houston Baptists on the rest of their schedule like we find littered throughout ours. Rice acts more like a D-1 school than we do.

Yeah and Rice is also 3-10.

rather be 3-10 playing their legit schedule than 6-7 playing ours.

Hoop Fan wrote:

perunapower wrote:

Hoop Fan wrote:Rice has played Oklahoma (today), Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and TCU twice this year (home and away). And their lesser games have been against Richmond, Lamar, Texas State, La Monroe and others. One soft game to open the season, but no SC Upstates or Houston Baptists on the rest of their schedule like we find littered throughout ours. Rice acts more like a D-1 school than we do.

Yeah and Rice is also 3-10.

rather be 3-10 playing their legit schedule than 6-7 playing ours.

Oh, for god's sakes.

Hoop Fan wrote:

perunapower wrote:

Hoop Fan wrote:Rice has played Oklahoma (today), Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and TCU twice this year (home and away). And their lesser games have been against Richmond, Lamar, Texas State, La Monroe and others. One soft game to open the season, but no SC Upstates or Houston Baptists on the rest of their schedule like we find littered throughout ours. Rice acts more like a D-1 school than we do.

Yeah and Rice is also 3-10.

rather be 3-10 playing their legit schedule than 6-7 playing ours.

Why? If they were competitive I would understand your point, but they weren't.

27 point loss to TCU
27 point loss to Duquesne
6 point loss to Richmond
7 point loss to Ark-Little Rock
5 point win against E. Illinois
13 point loss to La-Monroe
7 point win against Texas State
26 point loss to Texas
17 point loss to Lamar
5 point win against TCU
27 point loss to Texas A&M
18 point loss to Vanderbilt
12 point loss to Oklahoma

What about any of those beatdowns is appealing?

I guess you prefer beatdowns by SC Upstate, Centenary, Southern, Alabama State etc. To each his own. I'd rather play Texas, Vandy, A&M and OU no matter the outcome for a lot of reasons.

Hoop Fan wrote:I guess you prefer beatdowns by SC Upstate, Centenary, Southern, Alabama State etc. To each his own. I'd rather play Texas, Vandy, A&M and OU no matter the outcome for a lot of reasons.

I'm sorry, but losing by 2 is not a beatdown. The only beatdown we've endured is to Dayton who is 12-1. We don't need to play teams that will beat us by 30. Young players don't need to get blasted every time they get on the floor.

I have expressed my frustrations with the schedule several times.

It was mentioned on the telecast that Doh is looking & trying to land that one big time recruit that can turn a program around.
In order to do that, we have to upgrade our schedule to attract that type of young men who can come here & display their abilities against the top competition in the NCAA. They don't want to play Upstate, Paul Quinn etc.
Mixing in the UTA's, UNT, Stephen F, Sam Houston, Texas States are great for the scheduling & I have no problem with that. That's what UT, TT & A&M do.

My hope is that Doh can go back to prior stops such as Notre Dame, UNC,
Kansas etc. & schedule them. Maybe instead of 10,000 fans in Downtown Dallas watching Baylor & Ark we could have 10,000 fans watching SMU/NC, SMU/ND, SMU/Kansas. The road games @ these types of atmospheres are the types of challanges & experiences they want & will always remember.

Also, I would love to see us in the NIT Preseason Tournament, the Maui Invitational, San Juan shootout etc.
With all our California recruits they need to go back home in a couple of years & play UCLA, USC, Cal or Stanford.

Players/Recruits want to play on the big stage. If Doh is going to land that 5 star recruit like a Nolan Dennis upgrading the schedule is a must.

The great thing about College Hoops is that you can play quality non conference schedule, take some whippins & if you take care of biz in conference you still get to dance.

We are not is the Southland Conference. In order to have a big time bb program you have to act like one. We shouldn't be intimidated by anyone.
The only way you improve is by playing better competition.

http://www.gatorzone.com/sched.php?sport=baskm -- this looks pretty weak for a defending National Champion.

Couple of things about the Gators.

No problems recruiting.
Only show in town. Great home attendance.

What's wrong with scheduling Rutgers, Florida State, Ohio State, Temple.

That's what I'm talking about. 4 to 5 big games & mix in the Texas States,
Stephen F Austins, UTA's etc.

Rice plays a tough schedule because it whores itself out to make money. It isn't about the challenge for them.

Maybe we could combine the whore part with the challange part.
Play great opponents & make sure $$ & develop into a Top 25 type program. Imagine that.

Stick to football Just kidding, love your blog !