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Post by epatrick on May 6, 2019 15:46:26 GMT -5
How much choice do they have?
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Post by brffdone on May 6, 2019 16:04:55 GMT -5
How much choice do they have? You tell me... Last seasons schedule was terrible for different reasons; I’ve got to believe we can do better than Stetson and Kennesaw State and don’t want to hear the plethora of mid majors don’t want to schedule us.
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Post by epatrick on May 6, 2019 16:20:52 GMT -5
How much choice do they have? You tell me... Last seasons schedule was terrible for different reasons; I’ve got to believe we can do better than Stetson and Kennesaw State and don’t want to hear the plethora of mid majors don’t want to schedule us. Maybe we are doing the St. John's crawl.
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Post by brffdone on May 6, 2019 16:34:57 GMT -5
How much choice do they have? You tell me... Last seasons schedule was terrible for different reasons; I’ve got to believe we can do better than Stetson and Kennesaw State and don’t want to hear the plethora of mid majors don’t want to schedule us. As I rethink the 2019/20 schedule, maybe it’s better to wait for the final, overall non-conference portion before passing judgment on the two games referred to above. It could turn out to be a well balanced outcome.
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Post by iona1970 on May 6, 2019 17:27:58 GMT -5
How much choice do they have? we said no when it was our turn to play in the old spice tournament so i guess we could have said no to this
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Post by iona1970 on May 6, 2019 17:30:18 GMT -5
You tell me... Last seasons schedule was terrible for different reasons; I’ve got to believe we can do better than Stetson and Kennesaw State and don’t want to hear the plethora of mid majors don’t want to schedule us. As I rethink the 2019/20 schedule, maybe it’s better to wait for the final, overall non-conference portion before passing judgment on the two games referred to above. It could turn out to be a well balanced outcome. last years schedule was not that bad, we were bad this team right now would probably go 8-3 and we should have played Utah Valley instead of Hartford which was a top 100 team
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Post by GuyF on May 6, 2019 17:54:02 GMT -5
How much choice do they have? we said no when it was our turn to play in the old spice tournament so i guess we could have said no to this We cheaped out.
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Post by thehat on May 6, 2019 18:29:12 GMT -5
Some big time buy opportunities will be going away with the power -bigs adding more conference games, and more Big east/big 10 challenges. Games for cash will be harder to come by, plus a lot of mids are playing non div 1's to pad their home schedule. Landscape is changing. We are lucky to have about 17 nonconference schools a short bus ride away. I don't think we take advantage of it.
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Post by broguy99 on May 7, 2019 14:37:13 GMT -5
I'd rather be 2-0 against 2 crappy teams than 0-2 against high major teams. I'm probably in the minority here (because everyone is so obsessed with SOS, and I get it, but eliminating the bad losses is just as important as getting good wins) but Iona could use some early season wins for the first time in awhile. If they lose them vs these teams, we never had a shot at better one's.
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Post by iona05 on May 7, 2019 15:55:07 GMT -5
I'd rather be 2-0 against 2 crappy teams than 0-2 against high major teams. I'm probably in the minority here (because everyone is so obsessed with SOS, and I get it, but eliminating the bad losses is just as important as getting good wins) but Iona could use some early season wins for the first time in awhile. If they lose them vs these teams, we never had a shot at better one's. No offense, but if we followed your scheduling approach above I doubt we win 4 straight MAAC titles. I think our tough OOC schedule in difficult environments comes back to help us big when we are in tournament settings in March.
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Post by epatrick on May 7, 2019 17:30:21 GMT -5
I'd rather be 2-0 against 2 crappy teams than 0-2 against high major teams. I'm probably in the minority here (because everyone is so obsessed with SOS, and I get it, but eliminating the bad losses is just as important as getting good wins) but Iona could use some early season wins for the first time in awhile. If they lose them vs these teams, we never had a shot at better one's. No offense, but if we followed your scheduling approach above I doubt we win 4 straight MAAC titles. I think our tough OOC schedule in difficult environments comes back to help us big when we are in tournament settings in March. Definitely agree!
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Post by broguy99 on May 7, 2019 22:02:06 GMT -5
I'd rather be 2-0 against 2 crappy teams than 0-2 against high major teams. I'm probably in the minority here (because everyone is so obsessed with SOS, and I get it, but eliminating the bad losses is just as important as getting good wins) but Iona could use some early season wins for the first time in awhile. If they lose them vs these teams, we never had a shot at better one's. No offense, but if we followed your scheduling approach above I doubt we win 4 straight MAAC titles. I think our tough OOC schedule in difficult environments comes back to help us big when we are in tournament settings in March. I think thats impossible to know. I believe its more about iona teams every year with so many new faces and it seems to take 2 months for the team to gel. I doubt any OOC games helped them this year win games in Albany. Better talent + Cluess is the reason for that. Im not saying schedule all cream puffs but maybe starting out the season with extremely winnable games could be benefitial for the confidence of the team.
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Post by iona05 on May 8, 2019 4:13:58 GMT -5
No offense, but if we followed your scheduling approach above I doubt we win 4 straight MAAC titles. I think our tough OOC schedule in difficult environments comes back to help us big when we are in tournament settings in March. I think thats impossible to know. I believe its more about iona teams every year with so many new faces and it seems to take 2 months for the team to gel. I doubt any OOC games helped them this year win games in Albany. Better talent + Cluess is the reason for that. Im not saying schedule all cream puffs but maybe starting out the season with extremely winnable games could be benefitial for the confidence of the team. You’re right this is all very subjective, but I disagree. I think the early season tests in hostile environments are a big part of the reason we have been able to win so consistently in a tournament setting in March. New Mexico, Providence and VCU would be good examples of this from last season’s schedule.
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Post by Curt Hennig on May 8, 2019 10:24:18 GMT -5
Take 3-4 buy games so Cluess can buy a couple home games of his own. Teams from the MEAC, SWAC, etc. The whole conference needs to accumulate more OOC wins no matter who they are against. By doing this, you won’t see the atrocious strength of schedule numbers collect compound interest during MAAC play. It’s all about opponents’ W/L in the SOS, so get as many D1 wins as possible.
Play the big boys four times any time, anywhere, take the pay day, and improve the conference profile in the long run.
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Post by epatrick on May 9, 2019 22:25:56 GMT -5
Friend of mine suggested we might play St. John's this year. Sounds unlikely to me. Anyone hear rumors?
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