Originally Posted by SeasonTicketFan
My grading is different than Rollo's in two areas:
1) Rollo is weighting the A10 performance very heavily in the evaluation and downplays the out of conference games. I agree that the A10 performance has been below expectations, but I disagree on the non-conference.
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The A10 performance should be heavily weighted and definitely more than OOC. A handful of those OOC wins that we all thought were going to be on the "key wins" list come selection Sunday weren't due to mediocre finishes by those OOC BCS schools. Considering that, the conference schedules of any DI program striving to make it to the NCAA's every year depend on well played conference games. Had BCS schools played stronger in their conference, it would have looked better for us. We can't beat a couple BCS schools a year and think that those wins are going to set us apart from the pack and place the program where it needs to be. We have to treat the A10 with a higher amount of respect, because the outsiders don't. That means if we aren't at the top, there is a good chance we may struggle to get in. We can loose to the BCS schools in the non-con, win the A10, and we get in. That makes most happy.