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RE: Mark Adams Mid Major Scheduling Proposals
(06-08-2018 12:15 AM)chiefsfan Wrote: (06-07-2018 07:11 AM)Go College Sports Wrote: (06-07-2018 12:16 AM)chiefsfan Wrote: (06-07-2018 12:06 AM)Wedge Wrote: (06-06-2018 11:58 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: If the WCC had replaced Pepperdine and Santa Clara on St Mary's schedule with an extra two games each against BYU and Gonzaga, the Gaels are probably in the tournament and Syracuse is sitting at home.
If Saint Mary's had played Nevada and Rhode Island instead of saying no to those games, they would have been in the NCAA tournament.
That's what SMC will have to do going forward, now that two of the lowest RPI conference games have been taken off of their schedule. Play quality non-conference opponents, even if you have to go on the road or to a neutral-site tournament to play them. And that's what the best teams in these other conferences should do, too, rather than just playing their top 2 conference mates 4 or 5 times each.
They will have to schedule better, however they need to schedule those games as home and homes...not take a check to go play someone on the road
In part of the interview he railed heavily about how unfair preseason tournaments are to Mid Majors. Those tournaments are essentially money grabbers, and nothing else. For many only power conference teams can get in, and mid majors are often relegated to smaller events playing a game at a P5 school and then getting sent to the middle of nowhere for two random neutral site games against other mid majors.
In his plan, mid majors would create their own preseason tournaments and base them off of RPI, to ensure of the best matchups for their top teams..
Mid-majors, unless we are defining that group as all 275 schools outside of the power conferences, have plenty of opportunities in preseason tournaments. Middle Tennessee played in the Diamond Head Classic last year, and lost to USC and Miami. St Mary's played in the Wooden Legacy last year, and lost to Washington State and Georgia. If those two teams had won the games they had on the schedule, that would have been two more mid-majors in the at-large field.
I'm glad you managed to find 2 opportunities in the hundreds of games.
The point is, most of the Preseason Tournaments want the P7 to fill it out. They might reserve one spot for a mid major, but that's it. It's an unfair system driven by greed and wealth, which is basically all of what College Athletics is right now.
What does a "fair" system look like?
For 2018 Cal State-Fullerton, Monmouth, St Joseph's, Valpo, Western Kentucky, Appalachian State, Ball State, Davidson, Northeastern, Loyola Marymount, Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, Kennesaw State, Old Dominion, Penn, Northern Iowa, George Washington, Santa Clara, Akron, Boise State, Georgia State, Illinois State, Saint Bonaventure, Gonzaga, San Diego State, VCU, Missouri State, St Mary's, Utah State, Bradley, Wright State, Dayton, Middle Tennessee, Canisius, Charleston, UAB, Fresno State, Grand Canyon, Hawaii, La Salle, George Mason, Bucknell, Charlotte, Indiana State, Rhode Island, and UNLV are all in tournaments with multiple P7 teams.
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