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PantherSigEp wrote:Sure, it's easy to lose your way out of a bid if you schedule up and lose some games that you were expected to win or don't beat those teams for a "signature win". But at least you freaking tried and attempted to prepare your team for a competitive season. Why in the world would you want to be a team who goes 25-5 but had a 200+ SOS and just sits there on Sunday scratching their heads and complaining about why the committee didn't give them a bid for beating Eastern Tennessee Christian Tech and the Carolina College for Blind Scientologists? That's not pointing fingers at anyone in particular, just a really oversimplified example.

If you won't schedule good teams, to show you can beat good teams and give yourself a fighting chance of earning a bid to the tournament, then it's pretty silly to assume you actually belong in any conversation regarding the NCAA's.

Losing all meaningful games and not playing meaningful games both won't get you in the tournament but at least with the former you helped improve the standing of the Valley and gave yourself a shot at success. But, as evidenced by a majority of the conference, it's better to have a crap schedule and kid yourself as to how mediocre you are, rather than play good competition, have middling success and then come to grips with that reality on your own. Hooray for fluff and cupcakes, right? Hooray for 11th place in the conference RPI (or lower)!

agrinut wrote:
if the league wants to get better they put the scheduling mandate back in.

Snaggletooth wrote:Since we are talking about what really needs to do - lets be honest: What really needs to happen is to get rid of schools who are NOT willing to invest resources into their programs. If you do that, then you don't need some artificial mandate.

stl scooter wrote:Per RealTimeRPI.com: SOS rank and Avg SOS
Wichita St. 98 0.5351
Indiana St. 123 0.5158
Missouri State 107 0.5257
Northern Iowa 97 0.5363
Illinois St. 110 0.5238
Drake 148 0.5037
Southern Ill. 140 0.5066
Evansville 126 0.5145
Bradley 191 0.4885
Loyola (IL) 209 0.4816

stl scooter wrote:Non Con SOS per ESPN.GO.com
WSU: 29
InSt: 225
MSU: 89
UNI: 25
IlSt: 119
DU: 185
SIU: 278
UE: 244
BU: 299
LU: 339

PantherSigEp wrote:The embarrassing thing is that SIU looked like a JV squad against that non-con schedule and then played well in the Valley. Go figure.

agrinut wrote:

The bears had the 3rd highest SOS in the league last year behind only UNI & WSU if the league wants to get better they put the scheduling mandate back in.