Full 2018-19 non-conference schedule released

[horsemanx]

Surprised we would even put out a press release for this garbage.

[smupony94]

Surprised we would even put out a press release for this garbage.

Don't you normally wait until 4:59 on a Friday for this kind of news dump?

[blackoutpony]

Surprised we would even put out a press release for this garbage.

Don't you normally wait until 4:59 on a Friday for this kind of news dump?

WeΓÇÖre not that competent

[One Trick Pony]

Too bad no one would StubHub floor seats....

[skyscraper]

I walked away from my season tickets after getting the reseat pricing in the spring.
Today, I got an email asking me to come back and offering me new "deals."
I'm seriously wondering how many people dropped their tickets. Moody is gonna be not so loud this year.

[BUS]

OK, I'm going to put the best spin on this I can.

Two days ago I get email about bball tickets. Not wanting to hold a grudge I asked for seating chart. When a ticket sales person called me back he went over what was open and at what price. He was very nice and just said his job was to try to sell more tickets to those that had been ticketholders in the past. Yes, I told him why I left.

Bottom line is... I bought tickets for the coming year. Paid in full and am very happy with the price and location.

If you get a call and want to support this team, the coach and SMU... give them a chance to earn your business.

[One Trick Pony]

Where are your new seats Bus?

[BUS]

I can shake your hand in seats 3&4 in 201.

[PonySnob]

Last picture of Moody while reseat was going on:

[One Trick Pony]

I can shake your hand in seats 3&4 in 201.

I didn't renew those seats in the front row I think I'll buy them on StubHub for like $10

[DiamondM]

I don't love this schedule, but people are overreacting a little. For comparison, let's look at this year's and last year's OOC schedule for TCU and Houston. Last year's OOC schedules got them both tourney bids. Bold are tourney teams last year. Italics are NIT last year.

SMU's 18-19 OOC

Lipscomb
Oral Roberts
TCU
Western Carolina
Southern Miss
Bradley
Penn State/Wright State
Northwestern State
Lamar
McNeese State
Cornell
Georgetown

TCU 18-19 OOC

Lipscomb
Oral Roberts
SMU
Cal State Bakersfield
Fresno State
Charlotte
Bucknell/Rhode Island
Hawaii Pacific (Honolulu)
Eastern Michigan
Central Michigan
Indiana State
USC
Florida

TCU 17-18 OOC

Tex Southern
Tennessee Tech
SMU
South Dakota
New Mexico
Nevada
William & Mary
Omaha
Belmont
UL Monroe
Yale
St. Bonaventure
Vanderbilt

Houston 18-19 OOC

Alabama A&M
UT RGV
OK State
ST. Louis
Rice
BYU
Utah State
Northwestern State
Lamar
Coppin State
NJIT
LSU
Oregon

Houston 17-18 OOC

Incarnate Word
Liberty
Arkansas
Fairfield
UNO
St. Louis
LSU
Prairie View
Providence
McNeese St
Drexel
Wake Forest

I realize last year's results are not necessarily the best measure of this year's strength of schedule, but it allows for easy comparison.
-TCU's schedule this year has 2 common opponents, we play each other (which if you go by last year's results means we have the better schedule in that regard than TCU) a tournament with similar matchups to our Cancun tournament, USC vs. Georgetown plus an annual SEC v. BigXII matchup that we don't have. Plus a lot of mid and low major matchups comparable to ours. Last year's OOC schedule had 3 eventual tourney teams. I don't know what Georgetown is looking like after the coaching change, but as far as name recognition, it's better than the Bonnies, no?
-Houston's OOC schedule this year has ZERO tourney teams, though 4 are name brands that went to the NIT last year. Last year's schedule, which got them a bid had 2 tourney teams and 1 name brand NIT team. While ours has name(ish) brands, though only 1 went to the tournament (TCU) plus the NIT Champ (or a tourney team) in Cancun.

The thing that really hurts is the lack of name brands (regardless of strength). Whether Bradley and Wright State are decent this year or not, it won't matter for the "eye test" (or season ticket holder satisfaction) as much as even a decent loss against a midling team in a power conference (like Okie State for example.) I would prefer us schedule the Wake Forests, Vandys, Colorados of the world, but I'm not quite ready to mail it in on this years schedule. We just have to win.

[BUS]

Ditto Diamond
How do we perform in conference? Do we get a good team that can make a run and win the AAC tourney?

[oilpony]

#reseat

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Hey we could have scheduled Dallas Christian

[JasonB]

Here is what I have learned about the AAC:
* If you don't finish in the top 4 in conference, you aren't going to the NCAA.
* If you finish high and have a bad OOC record, you aren't going to the NCAA regardless of who you played.

So I think it is an overreaction to say that this schedule will keep us out of the NCAAs.

The schedule sucks. The reseat sucked.

But I also see a schedule that is going to get a team that will be without Shake, Ben, and maybe Foster (at the beginning) time to figure things out. It will give Douglas and Ray a chance to get a ton of PT and gain confidence. It will give our transfer PG and Mike a chance to run with their new team. It will give the staff time to figure out where to play McMurray. It is going to give Hunt and Young a lot of minutes as well to show if they should stay in the rotation as the season moves along.

Houston, Memphis, Tulane, and UCF are all building strong programs to go along with SMU, UConn, and Temple. The AAC doesn't need SMU to schedule hard. That said, I do think that Jank is ultra conservative when it comes to his scheduling...