Originally Posted by ud2
We will have to agree to disagree.
Fair enough, it may not be Mr. Spina or the BOT holding Neil back, but someone/something is holding Neil back.
I find it incredible that our last 3 or 4 AD's all saw things the exact same way, yet numerous other non-p5 AD's at very successful non-p5 programs during this same time period saw things differently.
And is it not a huge coincidence that the 4 most successful A10 teams over the last 20-25 years, Temple, VCU, Butler, and Xavier, all employed this same strategy of scheduling up in the ooc?
And we have been trying to dominate the A10 for the last 25 years, but we have largely failed. How about we slightly tweak our approach and see what happens?
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I appreciate your argument, but you just won't seem to grasp 1 fatal flaw in it: the teams you mention like _avier from that era who have moved on to greater things have something in common besides the number of road games on the OOC schedule. What is that thing?
They kicked a$$ in their conference, year-in and year-out.
Do you think if it was UD winning the A10 regular season and conference tournament every year (or second place) during the BG years and AM years that anything MIGHT be different for us?
It's an incredibly easy argument to say "look guys, we just don't belong in this conference, we're tired of winning it every year and need tougher competition." When you know you're going to win the A10 anyway, schedule whoever you want. When you know you're going to come in 3rd or worse in most years--even with your best teams--you've got to try to game the SOS.
And when other teams can tell their fan base "well sure that team is in the A10, but they're not A10 quality, they dominate that conference every year; they're actually much better than that" it makes a HUGE difference to scheduling us. It's embarrassing to lose to the 3rd best team in the 11th best conference.
But if it's Butler. . . well, yeah, they're in the A10, but they're Butler. They're not REALLY an A10 team (back when they were). And the A10 was tougher then. He**'s bells, we struggle to win the A10 now and it's far worse than it was then.
So yes, when we start dominating the A10, that scheduling model might be the cart that follows that horse. As it is, we're stuck until we start winning every year.
