quote:I had the opportunity to work with schedulling OOC opponents in the past and coaches and AD's have no shame on the things they ask for on these guarantee games.
Meh, not really. You still have 161 teams to choose from.
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Meh, not really. You still have 161 teams to choose from.
quote:and what about the contracts of games already agreed upon for next year with teams above 175.
I'm also curious how the league will enforce such a rule.
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What? That can't be serious. How is that even an idea?
quote:I'm with Hop here for a few reasons.
I don't have a problem w having a minimum standard for the league, but not this one. Sometimes a team will need to schedule a 175+ opponent for timing purposes to make the schedule work. Like last year for A&M, they needed to schedule four quick games before the Bahamas. The standard should be an overall OOC RPI minimum, not a single game minimum. This takes a lot of flexibility out of OOC scheduling.
quote:Very good point.
Also, for what it's worth, playing teams with crap RPIs hasn't been the SEC's biggest problem in recent years, it's that some of our members (ourselves included actually...) keep losing to them.
If you're going to play a crap team, you better freaking beat them.
quote:Do we know how many schools we can choose from given it is a three year rolling average of 175? Does that increase or decrease the number of schools that meet the standard? Presumably the conference has researched this. I doubt they just pulled 175 out of the air.
Is this even a real thing? There are 351 Division 1 teams and 14 in the SEC. So, excluding the conference teams, you are down to a pool of 161 of the 337 teams that you could schedule for non-conference games. If this is accurate, based on last year's RPI (I'm not calculating a 3 year average), teams such as Oklahoma St., TCU, Wyoming, Harvard, Sam Houston St., DePaul, Army, Navy, Air Force, Loyola Marymount, Charlotte, Tulane, St. John's, Boston College, Minnesota, Rice, North Texas, Southern Miss, etc. could not be scheduled. It just seems too restrictive to have NO teams below 175.
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One thing the league has to improve to change perception, is to schedule tougher games and win those games. Sankey said a specific expectation has been put in place for non-conference scheduling.
"We use a three-year RPI average at the selection date for the NCAA committee and expect our teams for the coming year to have an opponent's average RPI that is 175 or better," Sankey said. "Then we'll move that to 150 or better in the future."
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Talking Hoops: The conference's men's basketball coaches had an extensive conversation Tuesday with Sankey and Mike Tranghese, the former Big East commissioner who serves as the Special Advisor to the Commissioner for Men's Basketball in the SEC. Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said the discussion was a helpful big picture conversation necessary for a league that sent just three teams to the NCAA tournament in March.
"There's nobody that knows the lay of the land of college basketball any better than Mike," Barnes said. "Where he's been and what he's done. I just think we all realize there's a perception we need to change and things we need to do to do that. ... He made some great comments today. He understands from a perspective of where we are in terms of changing perception."
One thing the league has to improve to change perception, is to schedule tougher games and win those games. Sankey said a specific expectation has been put in place for non-conference scheduling.
"We use a three-year RPI average at the selection date for the NCAA committee and expect our teams for the coming year to have an opponent's average RPI that is 175 or better," Sankey said. "Then we'll move that to 150 or better in the future."
quote:Well that certainly changes things then, and obviously makes a lot more sense.
The article from the link above (quoted below) is quite different from the tweet in the OP. This says an opponents's average RPI of 175 or better - not every opponent with an RPI of 175 or better.quote:
Talking Hoops: The conference's men's basketball coaches had an extensive conversation Tuesday with Sankey and Mike Tranghese, the former Big East commissioner who serves as the Special Advisor to the Commissioner for Men's Basketball in the SEC. Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said the discussion was a helpful big picture conversation necessary for a league that sent just three teams to the NCAA tournament in March.
"There's nobody that knows the lay of the land of college basketball any better than Mike," Barnes said. "Where he's been and what he's done. I just think we all realize there's a perception we need to change and things we need to do to do that. ... He made some great comments today. He understands from a perspective of where we are in terms of changing perception."
One thing the league has to improve to change perception, is to schedule tougher games and win those games. Sankey said a specific expectation has been put in place for non-conference scheduling.
"We use a three-year RPI average at the selection date for the NCAA committee and expect our teams for the coming year to have an opponent's average RPI that is 175 or better," Sankey said. "Then we'll move that to 150 or better in the future."
quote:It can be more or greater depending on random variation because 175 is also roughly the median RPI since there are 351 D1 schools.
Do we know how many schools we can choose from given it is a three year rolling average of 175? Does that increase or decrease the number of schools that meet the standard? Presumably the conference has researched this. I doubt they just pulled 175 out of the air.
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I don't have a problem w having a minimum standard for the league, but not this one. Sometimes a team will need to schedule a 175+ opponent for timing purposes to make the schedule work. Like last year for A&M, they needed to schedule four quick games before the Bahamas. The standard should be an overall OOC RPI minimum, not a single game minimum. This takes a lot of flexibility out of OOC scheduling.
