Originally Posted by xubrew
Dayton no plays 18 conference games. They were in an exempt tournament this year, which means they're now down to nine OOC (exempt tournaments mean you play 27 games in addition to the exempt event). Of those nine, seven were home games and five were buy games. The ones that weren't were Alabama, Saint Mary's, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt. Now, if that's how they choose to schedule, then great. But, the real reason they may not be able to get Big East teams to play them is because of how much they've chosen to limit themselves. If you feel you need that many home games, then which of those four non-buy games do you replace with a BE opponent??
Hmmmm....it's just too bad that there isn't an obvious solution to this problem. If only there was some way for these two schools who's fans are complaining about their OOC schedules to come up with a way to work together to perhaps fix that.
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I think we easily would have given up Alabama or Vanderbilt for, say, Georgetown. Some of our home-and-homes come about because we can't get teams like Georgetown, and it seems SEC schools will schedule us. As for your last comment, that is more or less how the St Mary's series came about. We needed a good game and apparently Neil convinced St Mary's that they also needed a good game. And we may have approached St Mary's because we couldn't get a team like Georgetown (just using them as an example because they are a big name in the Big East who apparently won't play us).
