Yeah, add a few swac teams and lsu-s, and another off-season of hard work to complete the ooc home schedule is done.
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Yeah, add a few swac teams and lsu-s, and another off-season of hard work to complete the ooc home schedule is done.
I hear we're going for a record 3 NAIA games this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
I believe konkol would schedule 100% NAIA home games if he could get away with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
Our AD is more responsible for the sked than our HC.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
Our former coach was given much more rope than our current to make his own schedule. He padded his way to an SEC job.
And this is a CUSA tourney - got to take what they gives us, good and bad....
How is the Cancun Challenge a C-USA Tourney?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
I have no problem with whatever 2 home games we get from this tourney. They are non-SWAC/MEAC DI games we don't have to return. That is a good thing.
This is the best MTE Tech has been involved with since I've been following the program. This is progress.
Our past schedules deserve to be strongly criticized, but next year's tourney doesn't deserve any criticism. I don't see any bad with this MTE.
We need a few home guarantees to balance out our road guarantees anyway. Let's hope these 2 games take the place of a couple of our NAIA/D3/D2/SWAC/MEAC home games. My hope is for no more than 2 additional home guarantees on next year's schedule.
Not likely; total BS, in fact. If that were true, all coaches could/would do it. Kinda interesting that mw was selected CUSA Coach of the Year his second year in this conference, and was selected SEC Coach of the Year his second year over there. More like the old saying, "The cream always rises to the top" ??Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
And why would you say that?Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
I was under the impression it was since everything came via the CUSA office -Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
I agree on everything else you say - I really want us to renew the series with DUNK CITY and maybe add Little Rock with a home and home
He left. We gotta move on. And we're doing pretty darn well.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
True................ Way past time for the Haters on here to let go of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech77
You forgot to bold my last sentence. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by nadB
Are you saying we have haters of Mike White here?Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
I haven't seen any anti-White posts. I like him and wish him well. He got Tech MBB back on track after years and years of crap. It was also a tough decision for him to leave Tech and even the UF AD said as much in an interview. He said there was a time when he thought White would decline his offer. In the end, the lure of more money and major conference got MW to Gainesville. I also think it speaks well of him when Speedy and Alex made it point to go visit their former coach.
Yes, he's gone. Tech MBB is doing fine under Konkol. We are fortunate to have both of our hoops' programs in good hands.
KenPom Ratings in parenthesis
Known
(2 games Neutral - Cancun): (152) Evansville, (98) Fresno State, or (122) George Masson
(2 games Home - Cancun): (312) Binghamton; (283) Cal State Northridge; (235) Montana State; (227) Southeast Missouri State
C-USA Away: (276) FIU, (270) Florida Atlantic, (150) Marshall, (319) North Texas, (151) Rice, (325) USM, (203) UTEP, (251) UTSA, (232) WKU
C-USA Home: (197) UAB, (233) Charlotte, (41) MTSU, (119) ODU, (325) USM, (319) North Texas, (151) Rice, (203) UTEP, (251) UTSA
Remaining Games Last Year
2 road P5 teams: (28) South Carolina; (106) Nebraska (Cal was MTE which is Cancun this year)
2 home NAIA/D2: LSUS; OK Baptist
3 SWAC: (342) Alabama State; (310) Prairie View, (328) Grambling State (Alcorn State was part of MTE)
at (147) Louisiana-Lafayette
vs. (107) Florida Gulf Coast
Some suggestions for games: Home/Home with teams in American or Rating under 150; Buy Home over 150 - no games over 300 rating (except 1 SWAC)
Keep the 2 Road $ games
Keep one Home NAIA/D2 game
Replace other with Home/Home with 1 of Group 1
Keep 1 SWAC Home game
Replace 1 SWAC with Home game vs. Group 2
Replace 1 SWAC with Home/Home vs. Group 3 OR UCF (see below)
Keep H/H with UL-L
Keep H/H with FGCU and add H/H with (68) UCF (in years we don't play at FAU/FIU)
Group 1: Wishful Thinking - Home/Home: (11) SMU, (52) Houston; (103) Memphis, (241) Tulane, (146) Tulsa; (8) Wichita State; (45) Illinois State
Group 2: Buy Home Games: (182) UNO; (242) Stephen F. Austin; (261) UL-Monroe; (236) SE Louisiana; (297) Northwestern State
Home/Home
Group 3 - (83) Belmont; (75) UT-Arlington; (124) Arkansas State; (131) Georgia State; (136) Troy
Home under 150 may be hard to get to but I feel its a reasonable goal to make a rule for ourselves not to schedule below 300. That should certainly be doable.