spiderman said:

not only is it a weak MTE, but with the round robin 6 team format you don't even get the thrill of a potential championship game.

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Ball State can be our Super Bowl.

11-2 - we beat Auburn, but lose 2 other games.

What a huge disaster this schedule is this season. Someone ought to be censured for this. Absolutely appalling--did we move to the Patriot League this summer for basketball and they didn't announce it?

This tells me that the coaching staff has no illusions about being a good team this year. What else does it show?

spiderman said:

not only is it a weak MTE, but with the round robin 6 team format you don't even get the thrill of a potential championship game.

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Absolutely! Even with a super weak field it would have been so much more compelling to follow if there was an actual title game waiting at the end. Bummer.

How did I miss this before my barrage of posts?

LOL

not only is it a weak MTE, but with the round robin 6 team format you don't even get the thrill of a potential championship game.

Listening to the Bryant-UR broadcast, the Bryant announcers kept talking about how the coaching staff was upgrading Bryant's talent to the "CAA level".

urfan1 said:

They have told you WHY, you just don't accept it. They think it puts us with more peer schools and gives us a chance to win championships. I'm not endorsing, just responding.

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The article quoted above said
"The league this year grew to 16 teams, and as James Madison and Delaware moved to FBS (Delaware is in a transition year), UR wasn't encouraged by what remained in CAA Football and the scheduling rotation that would keep them from annually meeting preferred opponents. William & Mary evolves into a nonleague opponent, and both sides are committed to continuing the rivalry.

UR jumps to a more stable, smaller league with comparable schools and perhaps a clearer path to league titles and FCS postseason qualifications. "

This rationale is fallacious. We can't play the better rotation from the northern schools, so we switch into a different league, with a lower quality of play. We have no reason to complain about the quality of play in the CAA, until we dominate every team, including Hampton and Towson. Don't look now, but we could very easily lose to both Hampton and Towson.

For one, I will miss the competition the CAA offers- NOVA, W&M, New Hampshire, Albany, Elon, Rhode Island, Towson, Stony Brook, Maine and even Hampton.

Guys I'm sorry. As u know I was using my connections and facilitating Florida South Western College to join this instead. & we would not have had to play the d2. Basically a done deal but got overruled and they went with Florida Tech instead! It was like when I handed Richmond football a future nfl draft pick & they said nah we good. Oh well.

Richmond the headliner gets Florida Tech...worst schedule ever.

not sure if playing Eastern Kentucky (#272) would be better or worse.

they were just making us sweat until the 25 day mark apparently. I wonder how it was decided who would be stuck with playing the D2 opponent and how the team with the most national recognition in the field (us) ended up being one of those teams

Eight Legger said:

Really no excuse for anything less than 12-1 against this schedule.

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I see an excuse, only playing 10 games, including a D3…

That makes 12-1 difficult…

SFspidur said:

Have to think at least 2 losses...Auburn and then you always drop at least one more than you don't expect. Charlotte maybe most likely, but could be anyone (*cough* W&M *cough*).

Of course, if this MTE falls apart completely, we might end up with only 11 non-conference games total.

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Aren’t there only 10 (9D1) games without MTE, so far?

spiderman said:

well opening night is in only 5 days!

scratch that ... 7 for us.

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Is D1 opening night 10 days?

GKiller said:

Positionless. He's a PG!

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So not Walz & Beagle play together with Tyne as backup 5?

MDspider8 said:

Louisiana Tech is the strongest metric opponent we could have gotten (#107 Kenpom, #112 Torvik), so there's a chance that could be a Q2 game. But another D2 is blegh.

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offset by Ball St (#243 Kenpom, #249 Torvik)

Louisiana Tech is the strongest metric opponent we could have gotten (#107 Kenpom, #112 Torvik), so there's a chance that could be a Q2 game. But another D2 is blegh.

another D2. well ... at least we got our 3 game MTE.

WE HAVE A SCHEDULE!!! Looks like they've made it a 6 team event by adding D2 Florida tech. We're playing Florida Tech (ugh), Lousiana Tech, and Ball State.

2024 MEn’s GAME SCHEDULE​

MONDAy, NOV. 25​

Ball State vs. Eastern Kentucky – 12 PM
Southern Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech – 3 PM
Richmond vs. Florida Tech – 6 PM

TUESDAy, NOV. 26​

Eastern Kentucky vs. Southern Illinois – 12 PM
Louisiana Tech vs. Richmond – 3 PM
Florida Tech vs. Ball State – 6 PM

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27​

Eastern Kentucky vs. Louisiana Tech – 12 PM
Southern Illinois vs. Florida Tech – 3 PM
Richmond vs. Ball State – 6 PM

#1 Mallory decommitted from UVA this week after the Bennett news, adding to the poorly timed retirement carnage.

Looks like we have the 3rd and 4th ranked pgs in the state. Really excited for this class and glad that we kept this talent home.

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urfan1 said:

They have told you WHY, you just don't accept it. They think it puts us with more peer schools and gives us a chance to win championships. I'm not endorsing, just responding.

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Who said that re: more championships? Just curious if that was actually the WHY and explicitly stated or an assumption. I don't remember but could have missed. We have chance to win championships in CAA too, we've done so. Let's be honest if u watched that Huesman presser he's not exactly dripping w enthusiasm, tho part of that is his personality.

The peer thing they basically admitted to, but that is completely overblown for FCS football. To think FCS football is going to change your academic profile is just not a real thing imo. u can compete athletics & academics but each distinct. I've said b4 I think it only matters in IVY or non d1 ball. Now if u can get both at same time sure u take it & that's an advantage. But if W&M and Nova stay they r saying the complete opposite re: peer schools. They might not give a crap and then we actually look dumb trying to be "smart".

Now if they come to Patriot League u could definitely say the Richmond admin had right foresight. It's possible they want out too and CAA continues to weaken.

Overall tho I would not take what Richmond admin says at face value. Look what they said about A10 move. I'm not saying A10 was not right move for hoops, but the main reasoning was more postseason specifically more NCAA with an institutional committment to it (& it was actually said) but didn't happen.