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Post by iona05 on Aug 23, 2019 20:12:35 GMT -5
Schedule still a work in progress. Hang tight. U mean the schedule isn't just 26 games lol, but we KNOW it won't be 31 Schedule is basically done. Expecting 1 more buy game and 2 home games. Buy game likely against Top 50 team on the road and 2 home games against bottom feeder MAC team and cupcake mid.
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Post by Joebird on Aug 23, 2019 20:22:08 GMT -5
U mean the schedule isn't just 26 games lol, but we KNOW it won't be 31 Schedule is basically done. Expecting 1 more buy game and 2 home games. Buy game likely against Top 50 team on the road and 2 home games against bottom feeder MAC team and cupcake mid. You probably know who we are playing already, but my hope is top 50 buy, decent mid major at home. Love to see third being the holiday festival at the garden ( dreaming its not dead) and Iona vs say vcu was the main game. Schedule very disappointing without 2 of these 3 games not being a post season type team.
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Post by Joebird on Aug 23, 2019 20:27:12 GMT -5
The A-sun challenge is hard to understand, why are the two teams from the A-sun bottom dwellers? Another Ensor out of the box move, which also can be referred to as “stupidity”!
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Post by sharkey on Aug 23, 2019 20:32:50 GMT -5
Schedule is basically done. Expecting 1 more buy game and 2 home games. Buy game likely against Top 50 team on the road and 2 home games against bottom feeder MAC team and cupcake mid. You probably know who we are playing already, but my hope is top 50 buy, decent mid major at home. Love to see third being the holiday festival at the garden ( dreaming its not dead) and Iona vs say vcu was the main game. Schedule very disappointing without 2 of these 3 games not being a post season type team. If it's a top 50 team on the road and 2 weak home games to end with a 29 game season, that's a pretty poor OOC schedule. That top 50 team will be the only game against a top 150 team.
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Post by Joebird on Aug 23, 2019 20:37:09 GMT -5
You probably know who we are playing already, but my hope is top 50 buy, decent mid major at home. Love to see third being the holiday festival at the garden ( dreaming its not dead) and Iona vs say vcu was the main game. Schedule very disappointing without 2 of these 3 games not being a post season type team. If it's a top 50 team on the road and 2 weak home games to end with a 29 game season, that's a pretty poor OOC schedule. That top 50 team will be the only game against a top 150 team. The only thing I’ll disagree with is Hurley is a great coach, I think he will have UConn much stronger that many expect.
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Post by iona1970 on Aug 23, 2019 21:30:59 GMT -5
You probably know who we are playing already, but my hope is top 50 buy, decent mid major at home. Love to see third being the holiday festival at the garden ( dreaming its not dead) and Iona vs say vcu was the main game. Schedule very disappointing without 2 of these 3 games not being a post season type team. If it's a top 50 team on the road and 2 weak home games to end with a 29 game season, that's a pretty poor OOC schedule. That top 50 team will be the only game against a top 150 team. I've been saying that for a month Where was everybody?
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Post by Joebird on Aug 23, 2019 21:36:20 GMT -5
If it's a top 50 team on the road and 2 weak home games to end with a 29 game season, that's a pretty poor OOC schedule. That top 50 team will be the only game against a top 150 team. The only thing I’ll disagree with is Hurley is a great coach, I think he will have UConn much stronger that many expect. Duh, UConn is the top 150 team! for some reason I was thinking they had one top 50 team already.
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Post by GuyF on Aug 23, 2019 21:45:28 GMT -5
U mean the schedule isn't just 26 games lol, but we KNOW it won't be 31 Schedule is basically done. Expecting 1 more buy game and 2 home games. Buy game likely against Top 50 team on the road and 2 home games against bottom feeder MAC team and cupcake mid. The mid I'm hearing isnt a cupcake.
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Post by GuyF on Aug 23, 2019 21:46:39 GMT -5
Schedule is basically done. Expecting 1 more buy game and 2 home games. Buy game likely against Top 50 team on the road and 2 home games against bottom feeder MAC team and cupcake mid. You probably know who we are playing already, but my hope is top 50 buy, decent mid major at home. Love to see third being the holiday festival at the garden ( dreaming its not dead) and Iona vs say vcu was the main game. Schedule very disappointing without 2 of these 3 games not being a post season type team. Nobody knows who we are definitely playing.
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Post by thehat on Aug 23, 2019 22:28:10 GMT -5
U mean the schedule isn't just 26 games lol, but we KNOW it won't be 31 Schedule is basically done. Expecting 1 more buy game and 2 home games. Buy game likely against Top 50 team on the road and 2 home games against bottom feeder MAC team and cupcake mid. Like everyone else, disappointed in only 29 games. Glad to hear that we are getting 3 home games! The Mac is a good conference(even E. Mich is ok) Go gaels!
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Post by iona1970 on Aug 24, 2019 8:23:27 GMT -5
You probably know who we are playing already, but my hope is top 50 buy, decent mid major at home. Love to see third being the holiday festival at the garden ( dreaming its not dead) and Iona vs say vcu was the main game. Schedule very disappointing without 2 of these 3 games not being a post season type team. Nobody knows who we are definitely playing. Playing a 250+ team is my definition of a cupcake and the 2nd playing a team from one of the worst conferences would be terrible...
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Post by GuyF on Aug 24, 2019 8:52:43 GMT -5
Nobody knows who we are definitely playing. Playing a 250+ team is my definition of a cupcake and the 2nd playing a team from one of the worst conferences would be terrible... Nobody knows who we are definitely playing.
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Post by iona05 on Aug 24, 2019 8:53:27 GMT -5
Nobody knows who we are definitely playing. Playing a 250+ team is my definition of a cupcake and the 2nd playing a team from one of the worst conferences would be terrible... It looks likely that our remaining buy game will be a Top 50-100 team. That is great. The problem is that the remaining home games will likely be against teams that are 200 or worse. Playing only a 29 game schedule against this level of opponents gives us very little margin for error. We need to win against UConn or the Top 50 team, beat Princeton and hope that Rider sneaks into the Top 100. Sounds crazy, but we’re going to need to go something like 27-5 or 28-4 to have any realistic shot at a 12-13 seed.
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Post by sharkey on Aug 24, 2019 9:56:27 GMT -5
The staff really has to rethink the idea of completely ruling out the Orlando tournament. With the difficulty of filling a solid OOC schedule this tournament is a no brainer. There is no excuse, with the expectations of this year's team, to have Fairfield going this year for the 3rd time and not Iona. It has been posted here in the past that Iona has declined invitations. This year Fairfield plays @maryland and then playing 3 games in 4 days in Orlando against USC, Davidson/Marquette and either Temple/Texas A&M/Harvard. This is the best exempt tournament a MAAC program can play in, yet it's been reported on this board, that Iona has zero interest in participating. It just doesn't make any sense.
If Iona05 is correct and the best OOC games are a top 50-100 team, Uconn and Princeton with weak MM home games, that's a brutal schedule for this team. Uconn has some solid players returning and Hurley coaching, but also very much in a rebuilding stage. They will struggle some this season and are currently outside the top 150. Princeton is projected to finish mid pack in the IVY, clearly behind Harvard/Yale/Penn.
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Post by iona1970 on Aug 24, 2019 11:45:07 GMT -5
The staff really has to rethink the idea of completely ruling out the Orlando tournament. With the difficulty of filling a solid OOC schedule this tournament is a no brainer. There is no excuse, with the expectations of this year's team, to have Fairfield going this year for the 3rd time and not Iona. It has been posted here in the past that Iona has declined invitations. This year Fairfield plays @maryland and then playing 3 games in 4 days in Orlando against USC, Davidson/Marquette and either Temple/Texas A&M/Harvard. This is the best exempt tournament a MAAC program can play in, yet it's been reported on this board, that Iona has zero interest in participating. It just doesn't make any sense. If Iona05 is correct and the best OOC games are a top 50-100 team, Uconn and Princeton with weak MM home games, that's a brutal schedule for this team. Uconn has some solid players returning and Hurley coaching, but also very much in a rebuilding stage. They will struggle some this season and are currently outside the top 150. Princeton is projected to finish mid pack in the IVY, clearly behind Harvard/Yale/Penn. One of those 200+ won't be home Vegas tournament that is still open would play Clemson and Colorado and then be in mid major part and play 2 of these Irvine, Louisiana or Detroit still a no brainer
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