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from the Memphis board:

I think all of this OOC scheduling stuff is just an excuse. These schools need to recruit better and play better basketball, bottom line. Here are the non-conf schedule strengths (via rpi) last season... Everyone scheduled in-line with how good their team was with the exception of SMU who scheduled up (and that's not really a bad thing either) and UTEP who didn't have Caracter till 2nd semester.

UTEP: 131
UAB: 87
MEM: 65
TULSA: 107
MARSHALL: 69
HOU: 115
SO MISS: 189
UCF: 197
SMU: 209
TULANE: 254
RICE: 265

http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=435483

Everyone scheduled in-line with how good their team was with the exception of SMU who scheduled up

Have fun moodymadmen.

some random guy on the memphis board said we scheduled 'up'? that's super. talk about a backhanded compliment anyway.

Hoop Fan wrote:some random guy on the memphis board said we scheduled 'up'? that's super. talk about a backhanded compliment anyway.

He backs it up with the facts - our SOS was significantly higher than other programs near us in RPI.

That's what I don't get, our SoS was really pretty good and definitely better than most at our level, yet I see a lot of people [deleted] about who we played last year. Yes, I would love for us to play nothing but big boys, but until we get the team and or coach to compete it just makes no sense to schedule like that.

I thought last year's schedule was perfect for where we are at, a few big schools/teams and some local flair.

Hoping next year will be similar.

shadowman wrote:That's what I don't get, our SoS was really pretty good and definitely better than most at our level, yet I see a lot of people [deleted] about who we played last year. Yes, I would love for us to play nothing but big boys, but until we get the team and or coach to compete it just makes no sense to schedule like that.

I thought last year's schedule was perfect for where we are at, a few big schools/teams and some local flair.

Hoping next year will be similar.

I'd just prefer a few more mid OOC games in the schedule, if just for interest. For personal reasons, I find games like SMU vs CoC, or SMU vs VCU, SMU vs ST Marys to be really interesting match-ups. I'd love to see us do everything possible to play holiday tourneys, don't care if it's in Puerto Rico or Alaska. Whatever it takes to get odd hour TV time on real networks. Maybe one more big as well, so long as it's not from the Big 12.

BTW, RPI i is an awful tool. I have no idea how it's become as prominent as it has