2021-22 Dunkin' Dawgs Basketball Schedule

[Dwayne From Minden]

Can someone explain to me why most Mid-Major and lower Division 1 basketball programs schedule multiple of these NAIA games every year? It’s not something you see in Baseball. If it’s about $, which I’m sure it is, then why not Grambling, APB, Southern? Would playing Grambling or the like hurt your RPI more? I’m sure there’s an explanation but I’m failing to see one.

No RPI/NET effect like a sub 250 SWAC or MEAC school and you pay them $2500 to $5000 as compared to $25,000+

Ideally we want home and home 150 RPI/NET games with SLC, SBC etc. or one off money games against quality opponents

When you win - it makes it very difficult to get guarantee games (and the quality sub 150 home and homes)

[Champ967]

No RPI/NET effect like a sub 250 SWAC or MEAC school and you pay them $2500 to $5000 as compared to $25,000+

Ideally we want home and home 150 RPI/NET games with SLC, SBC etc. or one off money games against quality opponents

When you win - it makes it very difficult to get guarantee games (and the quality sub 150 home and homes)

Alternative approach --

1) Accept that the auto-bid is a CUSA team's only likely path to the NCAAs.
2) Schedule nearby opponents to maximize local interest and attendance, and to hell with RPI.

[inudesu]

No RPI/NET effect like a sub 250 SWAC or MEAC school and you pay them $2500 to $5000 as compared to $25,000+

Ideally we want home and home 150 RPI/NET games with SLC, SBC etc. or one off money games against quality opponents

When you win - it makes it very difficult to get guarantee games (and the quality sub 150 home and homes)

Alternative approach --

1) Accept that the auto-bid is a CUSA team's only likely path to the NCAAs.
2) Schedule nearby opponents to maximize local interest and attendance, and to hell with RPI.

The pool of OOC home and away schools we might be interested in will grow after next year. And will include schools that we have had some sort of relationship with. I wonder if that will help.

[Dwayne From Minden]

The pool of OOC home and away schools we might be interested in will grow after next year. And will include schools that we have had some sort of relationship with. I wonder if that will help.

Probably not since we are beating most of them already...

[Dwayne From Minden]

I'm for adding two more money games and re-investing the money back into the program and dropping two of the NAIA games

Konkol's history on the basketball side is he usually gets a skin or two OOC every year, atleast every other year

During our OOC schedule our folks are more interested in HS football than college basketball so I don't think we would see a great impact at the gate either way

[inudesu]

Probably not since we are beating most of them already...

Well, that and a couple of the ones leaving maybe would fall into that "hurts more than it helps even with a win" category anyway.

Wouldn't UTSA typically be south of 200? And USM would have been at least last year.

[Dwayne From Minden]

Well, that and a couple of the ones leaving maybe would fall into that "hurts more than it helps even with a win" category anyway.

Wouldn't UTSA typically be south of 200? And USM would have been at least last year.

Yes - lower half of present conference line-up is dreadful

[sportdawg]

I'd like to keep playing UNT in as many sports as possible. We need to keep a presence in DFW.

[inudesu]

Yes - lower half of present conference line-up is dreadful

Football is more important to me (and the geography, and just being in a conference with those schools we like being in a conference with - especially in the West) but boy, one silver lining of the mass CUSA exodus is that our basketball overall strength is actually going up.

Weird to think about since realignment is all so focused on football.

[inudesu]

I'd like to keep playing UNT in as many sports as possible. We need to keep a presence in DFW.

UTA is about to be joining a new conference, and probably one with a little more travel. Maybe we can get that going again. UALR may also be looking for regional games.

Same for Rice and Houston (although I guess SHSU is in the general area).

[techman05]

Yeah, the "convenience" fees are ridiculous. Tech has been promoting $32 tickets online for several days, but Ticketmaster bumps the price up to $51 with their fees. Cheapest seats you can get on TM right now are $25 seats for $44.

And now I hear that the fees are paying for the use of the arena. So regardless of how we get tickets, we pay the fee? Can’t get a straight answer from anyone.

[HogDawg]

Can someone explain to me why most Mid-Major and lower Division 1 basketball programs schedule multiple of these NAIA games every year? It’s not something you see in Baseball. If it’s about $, which I’m sure it is, then why not Grambling, APB, Southern? Would playing Grambling or the like hurt your RPI more? I’m sure there’s an explanation but I’m failing to see one.

It's called "staying in shape" over the holidays. Konkol wants to keep his team in good physical shape and Keep their timing and game time free throw shooting at a high level over the holidays. Scheduling someone like this is a decent (if not perfect) way to do it. The injury risk is pretty low. I think most coaches do something like this so their teams don't lose ground before we start conference play.

[HogDawg]

That used to be the case.

If you play a bad Division 1 team, it counts against your average RPI. If you play an NAIA or Division 2 school it just shows up in the rankings they use as one less game (they leave it out). So you get essentially another practice/win/chance to sell a little popcorn but the risk isn't there like it would be for playing the #300 Div I team (where even a big win just crushes your RPI or whatever the new one is).

I imagine they're cheaper, too.

I also grew up in Arkansas and had never heard of this school. I was able to guess the location based on the name. I think they only have like 600 students total.

We probably should have scheduled Centenary instead.

[LT]

I think we have an all time losing record against the Gents, so it would have been good to chip away at that deficit.

[LT]

When the new CUSA starts up, I hope