Our fans, more than anything else want to see our name in the NCAA draw each season. Neil has done his job in cherry picking teams that, if we beat them, postures us to reach that end-game. We need to win, and also achieve respectable RPI and SOS ratings.
Tulsa, New Mexico, Creighton, SMU, SEC, SDSU, are the kinds of teams we have scheduled in the past, and fit the end-game vision. Then there is a strata of frogs to kiss. The kind where we try to pick lesser programs that will have good years.
We hope to schedule teams that will get us to our end-game. And we hope fans will embrace the totality of the scheduling with that in mind.
To this end, Neil has done a good job. 14-17 seasons don't help him any. We need to start beating whomever Sullivan puts on our platter. If we do that at an 80 to 90% pace, scheduling will evolve to something more palatable. Truth is, at this time we are not good enough to be picky about opponents.
Results and Scheduling are joined at the hip.
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