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Any reason weāre not included on that list?
Arizona lost again.
Amazing looking at some old OOC schedules from historically strong mid-majors that arenāt doing much nationally nowadays. Look at who some of these teams played, they had way more preseason hype than we did but still:
- 90-91 UNLV: Florida State, Rutgers, and ranked Princeton home; Michigan State neutral; Louisville and Arkansas road
- 95-96 UMass: Wake Forest home; Kentucky, Maryland, Florida, BC, Georgia Tech, NC State, USC, Syracuse, and ranked Memphis neutral; Pitt, VT, and Louisville road
- 03-04 St. Joeās: BC home; Gonzaga and Cal neutral; Villanova road
- 08-09 Memphis: Georgetown, Arizona, Gonzaga, and Tennessee home; Oklahoma, UConn, and USC neutral; UC road
- 13-14 Wichita State: Tennessee home; DePaul and BYU neutral; Alabama road
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90-91 UNLV: Tark
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95-96 UMass: Calipari, Camby
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03-04 St. Joeās: Dunno
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08-09 Memphis: Cal, D. Rose
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13-14 Wichita State: Dunno
The power conferences realized that thereās no point in having the have nots to the party. The NCAA media deal pays per game, so if they can cut the mid major at larges, more money for them. And now we have 11 SEC teams, 10 Big Ten teams and only 2-3 total mid major at large bids. All by design. If you make the criteria Q1 wins and then donāt allow teams chances to get them, itās easy. Charlie Coles wouldnāt be able to schedule a death march schedule if he tried these days.
Just like the new 24 team playoff being floated by the big ten for football that would be 23 power teams plus 1 from the rest. Disgusting.
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Not saying there arenāt good reasons, but itās still notable. The only team that is remotely capable of scheduling like that is Gonzaga/Mark Few.
Jameer Nelson, Delonte West, Phil Martelli, and an environment that let them schedule like that.
Fred Van Vleet, Ron Baker, and Greg Marshall before he started hitting players in practice apparentlyā¦ they were already good though going into that year. As such, they had enough clout to get some good OCC games.
Would be nice and realistic for Miami to go after games against Memphis, Ivy League, DePaul, Butler, UNLV, Pitt, Boston College, IPFW ā¦ and Dayton, X and Cincinnati.
Heck, in the words of meatloaf, 2 out of 3 aināt bad!
Let me sleep on it.
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But will you give us an answer in the morning?
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This convo changed like a Bat Out of Hell 
completely different set of circumstances nowadays with how NCAA selection metrics are based which is what drives scheduling for P5 teams (and the domino effect to mid majors). those times and teams hadnāt even heard of NET, QUADS, etcā¦
With Arizona losing twice last week it would make sense for Miami to be #1 in tomorrowās polls.
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I completely agree, I just think itās interesting to see (and a sign of the times that schedules like that are impossible).
Things are going well I see.
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A coaching rant like that is a great topic to start off a sports radio talk show
Now compare that doofusā rant to any one of Coach Steeleās postgame press conferences during this seasonā¦
Doug needs to learn to talk about undeniable confidence and the perils of texting while driving.
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Marshall beats So Alabama. Hopefully, they and Wright St can string together some wins to move them back up to Q2ās.
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