Blue Man wrote: ↑1 year ago
RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑1 year ago
Big Rhody Guy wrote: ↑1 year ago
Conference is taking care of the teams that had good years last year and are projected to have good years this year as well. Getting teams that are more likely to be good facing each other twice is also better for TV. All 8 of Dayton's SLU's and VCU's double pairing games will be slated for national tv. It does not make sense to switch out any of of Dayton's pairings for us even with the arrival of Archie.
It literally makes all the sense in the world. Easily one of the ten most compelling story lines in the league is Archie's return to Dayton, and our conference in all its infinite wisdom decided to wait a year and a half at least to have that game, giving the story line plenty of time to cool off
The story line cooled for 5 years, it’s not like Archie switched conference foes in back to back years, or he was offered a Dayton job and turned it down for URI.
Like with ProJo coverage or anything else - we did it to ourselves. So win the games against an easier schedule, make noise in Brooklyn, and prove your team is on the rise instead of just pointing to your roster on paper.
UMass is in the same boat as us. Trash team that has a brand new roster and high profile coach. Still have a dog schedule.
This is not an NCAA or bust year. This is a fine schedule for us. Plus we get to go to Chicago and yell at Sister Jean.
Come on, let's get serious, the story line is literally only months old and in a conference devoid of story lines we should be maximizing the ones we have. I know I'm in the vast minority, but this story line is still big. A Dayton beat writer pointed out the glaring omission and it's talk on the Dayton message board as well. Considering no one has any idea how Loyola will adapt to the new conference, URI and Dayton already had a solid rivalry, and now Archie Miller back in conference, we absolutely should have been one of Dayton's pairings instead of Loyola.
Put it this way. If Dan Hurley is fired by UConn after this season for not being Jim Calhoun and comes back to coach in the A10 in the 24-25 season, you would be the first one Blue Man to act like Tony Montana snorting the whole mountain of coke at the end of Scarface waiting to find out when he'd be coming back. And if they didn't have him coming back to the Ryan Center the first year you would throw an absolute nutty.
And again, last time we were expected to be really good, we had mid pack La Salle as one of our home and homes. Maybe the conference has gotten smarter about their pairings, but something tells me the next time we're good again they'll find a way to pork us on our schedule, so I don't give them an ounce of the benefit of the doubt