SFspidur said:

Le Moyne has announced their schedule and their Dartmouth game is 12/18, so Dartmouth is still available as a possibility for our MTE.

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Dartmouth won't play 3 games in 3 days. the union will step in to add recovery days.

SFspidur said:

Dartmouth has 24 games tracked and nothing between Marist on 11/19 and BC on 11/29, though they have Le Moyne as a TBA.

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Le Moyne has announced their schedule and their Dartmouth game is 12/18, so Dartmouth is still available as a possibility for our MTE.

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Charleston Southern isn't a gimme O needs get out of its funk. Need to control the ball. Need to extend the field. Way too much dinking and dunking with few YAC. Open the O up. If Wick can't get it done, go to Cam early.

I thought you were sharing pictures of the latest home renovation project from the kitchen spiderman 😆

Hey I just signed up also but I was wondering if I was supposed to get a confirmation email or anything like that. When I clicked submit, it said that I registered and that they would contact me, is that what happened to yall too?

brooklyn brownstone said:

do we know this, or just conjecture because of the deleted post on this board? If the latter, we really don't know anything.

Man, I'm all on the side of the staff today, they should take advantage of my good mood. Extend Mooney!

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Don't forget Fire Bennett.

The correct term is Fire Bennett Extend Mooney!

I think I used those same guys for my living room.

spiderman said:

sounds like we almost had NO conference games if Auburn pulled out. wouldn't surprise me if we had to make some kind of concession to keep them on the schedule.

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do we know this, or just conjecture because of the deleted post on this board? If the latter, we really don't know anything.

Man, I'm all on the side of the staff today, they should take advantage of my good mood. Extend Mooney!

sounds like we almost had NO power conference games if Auburn pulled out. wouldn't surprise me if we had to make some kind of concession to keep them on the schedule.

The MTE's quality doesn't really shock me because our MTE's are always lackluster (props to Gazelle Group), the non-D1 team on the schedule doesn't bother me either because that has become commonplace now.

But only having one power conference school on the schedule is like historically bad, I think most of us don't realize. I just went back through every schedule from last season to the 2000-2001 season and every year we played at least 2 and many times 3 or more.

There is a whole lot of hours available to work between March 19th and today and the coaching staff just didn't get it done. Yeah it's hard, whatever the excuses are, but if we consider ourselves one of the top programs in the nation, hat tip to GKiller, we can't let this happen again. Whatever needs to be done, make it happen.

brooklyn brownstone said:

drop the worst team and make it a 4 team round robin, 3 games each.

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I like this idea. Probably can't drop a team but the remaining options are terrible. I doubt any of the committed schools are excited about all about adding any of these deadweights. Pretty sad that our MTE is dumpster diving for teams and even doing so, they can't find teams who wanna play.

GKiller said:

No. Because this tournament has never had majors in entire history for the men. It is designed for mids only. No majors backed out. What Hardt said could easily be PR nonsense too. idk why we would choose this tourney for a MTE, but we are essentially the headliner. My feeling is this wasn't our first choice of MTE, but this is what u get left with when your main mte connection is the head coach's agent at the Gazelle Group.

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So we shouldn’t have expected this year’s men’s field to be the same schools as last year’s women’s field?

That would have been ok…

Still waiting on TV commitments maybe? As a second-tier conference we need to wait for the big boys to get sorted out and then we'll have some of our games filling in gaps in the TV schedule, sometimes on odd days.

I still want a silver web all over the court.

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so who knows...we'll see...

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must be harder than I imagine, but I can't comprehend not being able to set an in-conference schedule by now.
plug in the pairings that were set in June, set dates to Saturdays and Wednesdays, and ChatGBT could have a model arranged instantly that could be tweeked as needed.

GKiller said:

No. Because this tournament has never had majors in entire history for the men. It is designed for mids only. No majors backed out. What Hardt said could easily be PR nonsense too. idk why we would choose this tourney for a MTE, but we are essentially the headliner. My feeling is this wasn't our first choice of MTE, but this is what u get left with when your main mte connection is the head coach's agent at the Gazelle Group.

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Thanks didn’t know that.

Also, yikes. Makes everything worse - we (supposedly) had power conf. games on paper that dropped away, and never managed to get a good MTE. Plus non D1 opener. Those are like the 3 mainstays of scheduling duty.

Just looked at our schedule, holy cow that’s bad. Seems like we put all our eggs in one basket with this auburn game. Charlotte on the road is a good game but wow, this is bad.

brooklyn brownstone said:

To both speculate and beat a dead horse here, but any thoughts that the better games we thought we had- referenced by Hardt - might have been in this tournament and those bigger name teams dropped out (but we had already signed on?) Hard to fathom a tournament didn't have a group of headlining teams put together early, I'd imagine that's how these things get built.

Pretty big speculation here, considering that the rest of the schedule is so soft. If we had thought we were getting 2 good games here, makes more sense though.

If we were the first team to sign on - i.e. one of the headliners - and no one else did, I don't know what that says, but I don't like it.

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No. Because this tournament has never had majors in entire history for the men. It is designed for mids only. No majors backed out. What Hardt said could easily be PR nonsense too. idk why we would choose this tourney for a MTE, but we are essentially the headliner. My feeling is this wasn't our first choice of MTE, but this is what u get left with when your main mte connection is the head coach's agent at the Gazelle Group.

To both speculate and beat a dead horse here, but any thoughts that the better games we thought we had- referenced by Hardt - might have been in this tournament and those bigger name teams dropped out (but we had already signed on?) Hard to fathom a tournament didn't have a group of headlining teams put together early, I'd imagine that's how these things get built.

Pretty big speculation here, considering that the rest of the schedule is so soft. If we had thought we were getting 2 good games here, makes more sense though.

If we were the first team to sign on - i.e. one of the headliners - and no one else did, I don't know what that says, but I don't like it.

Maybe "everyone around him" play better with a different quarterback.

drop the worst team and make it a 4 team round robin, 3 games each.

RichmondNative said:

Thanks for all the detective work. This event still not having a full slate of teams sure puts lots of doubt into the past statement that UR knew its MTE destination for a significant amount of time. Why make a commitment to what would have had to be an empty field? Spider staff going to have to up the game on scheduling because it isn’t going to get any easier and that convenient excuse is long in the tooth.

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Some team(s) have to be the first to commit.

SFspidur said:

Non-DI teams can only participate if they are the host (like Chaminade hosting the Maui Invitational...they participate in it every other year now).

Can we manage to land just one of the remaining handful to make it a 6-team tournament? Can't do three games in three days with only 5. Does someone bow out and make it a 4-team round robin?

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Thanks for all the detective work. This event still not having a full slate of teams sure puts lots of doubt into the past statement that UR knew its MTE destination for a significant amount of time. Why make a commitment to what would have had to be an empty field? Spider staff going to have to up the game on scheduling because it isn’t going to get any easier and that convenient excuse is long in the tooth.