NWST has zero shot at an at-large bid. Their RPI is only high because they lost to a lot of high RPI teams (2-11 vs. RPI Top 50). That won't get them 1 second of consideration.
Now SELA is a different story. They are probably in.
I think we are in with 2 wins over Rice.
RPI is a very poor, archaic metric that needs to be abolished.
Last edited by Dawg06; 05-17-2016 at 02:25 PM.
Our OOC schedule is really what hurt us.
Five SWAC opponents is almost a death knell to at-large hopes:
No. 3 worst RPI in nation - Prairie View A&M
No. 5 worst RPI in nation - Southern
No. 10 worst RPI in nation - Alcorn State
No. 19 worst RPI in nation - Grambling State
No. 19 worst RPI in nation - Grambling State
Eliminate those SWAC games, and our RPI would likely move up ~20 spots. That's why ULL's RPI is so high, and our's isn't. SWAC vs. no SWAC.
oooh, that looks nasty...Our own worst enemy, again ? But, I bet Coach Goff probably didn't think he'd have to worry about rpi this year.
It just seems like he has all of his bases covered, I bet this season kinda surprised him. If not, then there is no excuse for all of these SWAC games.
You have to play Grambling twice annually -
Southern & PV were part of the Urban Classic which was good for our team to play in NOLA -
If CC doesn't get rained out, they hurt almost as bad at 217 for two games
The loss @ 198 UTSA hurts also
So really the only bad "schedule" game was Alcorn State in my book
We also got a break with one rain out with UALR and got nipped by UA "low" rpi of 108 when they are usually a sub 30 rpi
It all balances out in the end
No ONE thought we would be flirting with what we are flirting with right now -
''Don't be a bad dagh..."