That’s down right optimistic coming from you. I would have expected much more than “strongly suspect”. I would put $ on “almost certain”. I’m thinking 2-2, with a chance of 3-1.
Of course, I thought the football team would be good this year. And I also believed that artificial sweeteners were safe, WMDs were in Iraq, and Anna Nicole married for love.
Reeks of overcompensation. The whole staff is probably having a simultaneous mid life crisis type experience and questioning their reason for being. 5 years of Kihei will do that to you I hear.
Wait Anna didnt love that dude? They literally died for each other
What would you like our non-con schedule to look like? I know the board has gone through this multiple times in the offseason but now it’s preseason lol
I want last year’s non-con this year. And this year’s non-con, I want next year. Last year, I wanted the previous year’s non-con (meaning, cancel a bunch of them, and put the rest on Flo-sports) (last one is a joke).
Should add - this was all out of Tony’s hands, for the most part. He just got unlucky playing a home and home with Houston when they’re at the zenith of their program (since Drexler) and we are in a dip. And also unlucky he scheduled some decent programs that are gonna be ass this year (No Iowa, Monmouth).
I wouldn’t want last year’s OOC unless we fall to a place as a program where an NIT appearance would be an accomplishment. There were not enough opportunities to score Q1 and Q2 wins for a program expecting to make the tournament.
I feel like this year’s is pretty standard for power conference teams. One exempt event, the ACC/Big Ten challenge, and one other power conference game. Like you said, hard to have predicted Houston would be so good heading into the year so maybe sub them out for a 40-60th ranked opponent and it’s perfect. But 6 easy games and 4 resume opportunities is about the balance I expect to see.
Well, I’ve been reading the 3 Bears to my daughter recently. There’s always the middle option…
(By the way, what in gods name is the moral of the 3 bears? Watch out for weird somnambulant porridge thiefs?)
Not going to retype my edit to my previous message but you can see it above. Feel like 4 challenging games OOC is pretty standard. Maybe we should actually play a 31st game so 7:4 feels like a better ratio than 6:4?
Maybe to check Zillow before you randomly run up in someones crib
Yeah, like I said, we didn’t really do anything wrong. Just unlucky we got the toughest tourney and have to play Michigan on the road. Also, if I were less pessimistic I’d have more of a “cool - fun games - bring ‘em on!” Attitude.
But I think Tony went into his shell last year when we lost to Navy and never came out. And I’d like him to stay “open to new experiences” on the personality scale this year, which is not his default personality type…
Good point!
Guess I don’t follow how this ties into the hard games? Tony went into a shell because he lost a buy game so we should avoid opponents who are peers (or better that current season)? Seems to avoid a Navy result (if one accepts that explanation as the reason TB got so tight last year) you would want to avoid those mid level mid major teams? Which seems we have largely done this year. Maybe JMU and UNI qualify?
11/7 - North Carolina Central University (H). WIN (by 19)
11/11 - Monmouth (H) WIN (by 36)
11/14 - Northern Iowa (H) WIN (by 23)
11/18 - Baylor (Las Vegas) LOSS (by 9)
11/20 - UCLA or Illinois (Las Vegas) WIN (by 7 over UCLA)
11/24 - Maryland Eastern Shore (H) WIN (by 33)
11/29 - Michigan (A) WIN (by 3)
12/6 - James Madison (H) WIN (by 27)
12/17 - Houston (H) WIN (by 7)
12/28 - UAlbany (H) WIN (by 14)
I don’t think it’s tooooooo optimistic. I like having 3 games before going to Vegas - lets the rotation settle a bit. Don’t like having Baylor first as it’s the first big game for the newcomers. I think Michigan is very winnable. Houston at home will be a great game if we can slow them down at the start. Home crowd will be hyping.
I don’t even know what this thread is about but that’s hilarious
Here’s my overall point: I don’t have the quads in my head this time of year, but this noncon schedule has serious ONLY Quad 1A / Quad 4 vibes to it. I’d prefer more winnable quad 1”B” and quad 2 games. Because if we win, I think Tony will be more likely to play with a longer rotation.
As always, I could be wrong about a number of things, especially :
But I like to think that no worrying is in vain.
We are coming off a 10ish day exam break. They don’t have a break at all
Do they even have classes and tests?
I don’t think the break is that big of a deal this year. We will have 8 games under our belt including the aways at Las Vegas and a true roadie at Mich.
Gotcha. Guess I would throw out the Q4 games to add the Q2 games while you would replace the Q1 games to fit some Q2s in.
