(09-20-2017 04:49 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(09-20-2017 03:46 PM)nastybunch Wrote:  This is why we don't advance in sports at USM, we have been convinced that we need to play guaranteed games. Baloney. Baseball can do home and home with anyone because of their prestige in the sport. Absolutely stupidity to schedule guarantee games in baseball.

Yeah, I tend to agree with this. I never even heard of guaranteed, money games in college baseball. Football, yes, but not baseball. Teams like LSU, Arkansas and Ole Miss can attract just about anyone outside the Top 25 - 35 teams to play road games at their sites without paying compensation or offering home and home. Rice schedules home and home with the likes of Stanford, Texas, TCU, A&M and even UCF (with whom we're reciprocating for their series at Reckling 2 years ago by playing in their season-opening tourney this year), but we also schedule non-reciprocating home OOC series with the likes of SELA, Pepperdine, ECU and Gonzaga.

Miami (FL) doesn't play any OOC away games, so there must be someone selling games to them.