Who Would You Rather Schedule in a 3-Game Weekend Series Going Forward?

[Dwayne From Minden]

Who would you rather schedule a three game weekend series with going forward beginning in the 2023 baseball season?

[tigtoo30]

USM or Rice. They at least wouldn’t ruin RPI.

[FriscoDawg]

USM or Rice. They at least wouldn’t ruin RPI.

Dallas Baptist is #1 in RPI. There aren't many teams Tech could lose to and two days later be in the same RPI spot it started the week at (#33).

Rice is #173 in RPI right now. A sweep against them next weekend would by itself still hurt Tech's RPI.

[PawDawg]

No brainer...Dallas Baptist.

Nothing to gain from playing usm from here out. They are lower than nlulm to me.

Plus, it's a much more enjoyable weekend in the metroplex than that crap hole in mississippi.

[FriscoDawg]

If we play USM it should be as a single midweek game alternating home and home. Get rid of Little Rock and its 200+ RPI.

And if Northwestern State doesn't improve its program, midweek should be limited to just one game a year. Demons have a 250 RPI right now out of 301.

Avoid the SWAC. Only team above 242 RPI is Bethune-Cookman.

One of the biggest issues C-USA will have to deal with starting next year is how many conference weekends to play. Only 9 baseball teams next year and 8 for 2024.

[tigtoo30]

Dallas Baptist is #1 in RPI. There aren't many teams Tech could lose to and two days later be in the same RPI spot it started the week at (#33).

Rice is #173 in RPI right now. A sweep against them next weekend would by itself still hurt Tech's RPI.

Sorry, the poll hadn't "posted" yet, so I didn't know it was between the two of them. Thought it was more hypothetical. Now that I see the choices, I would say both.

[Dwayne From Minden]

If we play USM it should be as a single midweek game alternating home and home. Get rid of Little Rock and its 200+ RPI.

And if Northwestern State doesn't improve its program, midweek should be limited to just one game a year. Demons have a 250 RPI right now out of 301.

Avoid the SWAC. Only team above 242 RPI is Bethune-Cookman.

One of the biggest issues C-USA will have to deal with starting next year is how many conference weekends to play. Only 9 baseball teams next year and 8 for 2024.

Exactly...

USM midweek only

The fact that we only dropped 3 spots in rpi is a testament to the strength of DBU (#1 rpi) and us - too bad most of our fans don't get the baseball side of the equation and look at name only

I agree about the Demons - a win is going to hurt us and a loss is really bad, ULM is a much better fit strength wise

[sportdawg]

If we play USM it should be as a single midweek game alternating home and home. Get rid of Little Rock and its 200+ RPI.

And if Northwestern State doesn't improve its program, midweek should be limited to just one game a year. Demons have a 250 RPI right now out of 301.

Avoid the SWAC. Only team above 242 RPI is Bethune-Cookman.

One of the biggest issues C-USA will have to deal with starting next year is how many conference weekends to play. Only 9 baseball teams next year and 8 for 2024.

Do you think the conference should play 10 series or keep 8/7? H/H for 2/3 going forward?

[Bulldog Tom]

Do you think the conference should play 10 series or keep 8/7? H/H for 2/3 going forward?

My concern is finding suitable opponents if we only play 7 or 8 weekend series. On the otherhand I do not like an unbalaned conference schedule.

[Dwayne From Minden]

Simple solution - play 10 conference weekend series

Next H/H with you travel partner

Following H/H with two schools then rotate two different every year - every third year you are rotating through the conference playing each team

Or your try to match a conference that has similar #'s for OOC series the first two weeks - but that could be an unwanted RPI hit

[FriscoDawg]

Simple solution - play 10 conference weekend series

Next H/H with you travel partner

Following H/H with two schools then rotate two different every year - every third year you are rotating through the conference playing each team

Or your try to match a conference that has similar #'s for OOC series the first two weeks - but that could be an unwanted RPI hit

The problem/advantage of travel partners is that FIU would just about be the most logical for Tech and C-USA as a whole geographically in the new C-USA.
NMSU-SHSU (839 miles)
Tech-FIU (1060 miles)
MT-WKU (92 miles)
JSU-Liberty (547 miles)

NMSU and Tech paired together (933 miles) and SHSU and FIU (1252 miles) paired together would be another alternative, but that's 286 more miles.
JSU-Tech (462 miles) and Liberty-FIU (934 miles) would be another alternative, and that's 211 less miles.

I'd rather have what recruiting advantage there might be from being in Miami for a weekend every season.

It needs to be either 8 or 10 conference weekends to keep an equal number of home and road weekends. And like DFM, I would lean toward 10.