🏀 Ryan Odom Transition

Men's Basketball
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Hold up, what does that bang mean, do you know something :eyes:

Should I be refreshing all social media constantly (too late, already am)

Edit: Never mind, false alarm.

(goes back to refreshing social media)

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@DFresh11 enquiring minds want to know :thinking:

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No. I know zero @dave92 I was responding to the post that said my idea of Ryan Odom running around like crazy into lockerroom was terrible

Hence my response… Bang! Which is terrible

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Why are we banging the transition thread lol

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Was responding to XBOXhoo up there

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Is it better or worse than Tony dancing with a monkey on his back?

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We have a game!

https://x.com/jonrothstein/status/1913563238673060277?s=46

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I’m a little worried about Odom’s non-conference schedules to be honest. They were absolute trash at VCU and Utah State was meh too. VCU was not getting into NCAA’s this past season unless they won A-10’s, so would rather he not put us in that situation either. NCAA committee rewards those who try to play people in their non-conference. No excuses at UVA!!

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We’ll see, but for whatever it’s worth he did say in the VAF call he intends to schedule challenging opponents, wants to push us in Nov/Dec to prepare us for ACC play.

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Upside: hoping we go back to Maui soon, with Dave’s connection there (he used to be Chair, tho maybe retired by now)

Downside: nobody goes to Maui because everyone wants to go to this Vegas tourney, sponsored by Ponzi Schemes

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It’s a different situation for mid- major schools like VCU and Utah State. P4 teams don’t want to schedule them or will not do a home-and-home with them because they have nothing to gain. I’m not worried about our OOC scheduling being a problem .

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I get all that, but still no excuse for playing as bad a non-con as he did his two years at VCU. There are numerous fellow quality mid-major teams or non-power 5 (including Big East) they could’ve played but didn’t. Also he inherited the Memphis game his first season (Coach Rhoades scheduled that one), so didn’t even schedule that one which was by far the best non-conference game VCU has had last two years.

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This past season, VCU had Seton Hall, Colorado State, Nevada, New Mexico, and 2 ACC teams on their schedule. It wasn’t their fault that Miami turned out to be bad. Many had Miami has top-4 preseason ACC. That’s not too shabby a mid-major schedule, especially since P4 teams won’t play them.

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3 of those were in Charleston Classic MTE and last time I checked VCU lost 2/3 including a horrid loss to quad 4 Seton Hall. Should’ve won that tournament with everyone being as down as they were (Drake won it). And IF Miami was as good as they were supposed to be VCU wouldn’t have seen them in the loser’s bracket. Semantics. Regardless don’t let strength of your non-con boil down to one weekend in Charleston. Also Colorado State was a solid neutral site game (even though they weren’t getting an at-large either) and obviously New Mexico was good scheduling. Look at all the other non-conference games though. Not even bothering to schedule buy teams that should win their leagues. And Penn?? Give me a break. Play Yale home and home or Princeton home and home. Penn was and predicted to be a trash can.

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Which is awesome news because it implies we’ll have a team! Yea!

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Speaking of scheduling, I wish the ACC would go back to 18 games (two more P5 or high-major non-cons).

Play each team once (17) + one rivalry game, as follows:

UVa-VPI
UNC-Duke
Wake-NCS
GT-Clem
FSU-Miami
BC-Cuse
Pitt-ND
Lou-SMU
Cal-Stan

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Cupcakes are part of every P5 teams’ schedule, though. Last season we played Campbell, Coppin State, Manhattan, Holy Cross, Bethune-Cookman. The previous season we played Tarleton State, North Carolina A&T, Texas Southern, Northeastern.

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UVA made up for their cupcakes as they always did under Tony with scheduling teams like Memphis, Florida (part of ACC-SEC challenge, but rest assured Tony would’ve scheduled someone of that ilk if that didn’t exist), Villanova, and as usual a solid MTE where they played St. John’s and Tennessee. My point is Odom didn’t even give VCU a chance with their shit non-conference scheduling unless they won their MTE. Need to give yourself more room for error as bound to have a bad loss in conference or two. He could learn a few things in that regard from Penny at Memphis. He schedules ridiculous as he knows he has to as he’s in a one-bid league. Well guess what? So is VCU so no excuse there for Odom not to have done better.

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On the Odom VCU non-con thing:

  1. have said this before, but it doesn’t seem that bad. What was bad was losing to a Seton Hall that wasn’t good. And what was worse was that SH turned out to be terrible, not just “not good”. But that’s not a scheduling flaw. He scheduled two MWC tourney teams away from home. One at the Pit, and one on a neutral. I agree it’s savvier to schedule more teams that will do well in their conference (might have gotten caught in a coach change year at W&M). He scheduled an MTE, two MWC games, and an ACC team (there again with BC, nobody thought they’d be good, but it couldn’t have been predicted they’d be 150+, either).

  2. How does it translate here? This is the million dollar question. One of many things that he and his crew will have to learn how to do here at a higher level. Hopefully Ronnie W. can help a bit (I assume he was involved heavily in scheduling? At least on logistics?). I’m willing to give them a year to figure it out…

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Inventing problems.

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