Fixing C-USA RPI

[Dwayne From Minden]

Would it save the conference money to have the tournament at school sites? Split the league into East/West.
You could have all teams play with 1 seeds receiving bye.

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I don't think you can split into divisions but something like this giving the top 2 seeds byes would work perfectly -

Hosting the semi's and finals at a neutral site and you could do men's and women's tourney the same way

[Dwayne From Minden]

I would go FRI & SAT for semi's and finals

Go Saturday *& Monday for first round and quarters

[sportdawg]

If we need to do it, good. We should.

But, I personally don't like the idea of the conference deciding who or what we should schedule. Guidelines or goals, fine, but holding us hostage, not so much.
If others care to suck mud, sooner or later "cream" will be identified and opportunities will come.

How about C-USA not telling teams to do this, but ENCOURAGING them to do it. Maybe we can get a TV partner to put together an AAC/C-USA Challenge. The 3 teams with lowest RPI in C-USA would not be included. Doesn't look very fair to AAC - maybe give them a little more $. It could be set up like old Bracket Buster where the Home team plays at visitor the following year.

RPI Rk	American Athletic			RPI Rk						Conference USA
12	Cincinnati			35			Middle Tenn. St.
13	SMU			112			Marshall
54	Houston			117			Louisiana Tech
69	UCF			136			Old Dominion
119	Connecticut			168			Rice
121	Memphis			198			UAB
132	Tulsa			222			UTEP
135	Temple			226			W. Kentucky
214	East Carolina			243			Charlotte
298	Tulane			264			UTSA
316	South Florida			282			Florida Atlantic
						331			Southern Miss
					337			Florida Intl.
					339			North Texas