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2015-16 Schedule Dates

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Trying to piece together our schedule for next year, and other schools' schedules trickling out are starting to fill it out. Post here if you know any other dates.

11/13 James Madison
11/18 @ Wake Forest
11/21 Bethune-Cookman
11/23 Stetson
11/26 vs. West Virginia (Las Vegas)
11/27 vs. Cal or San Diego St. (Las Vegas)
12/01 @ Florida
12/05 Northern Iowa
12/12 Longwood
12/16 Old Dominion
12/22 Presbyterian
12/29 @ Texas Tech
 
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Remaining OOC:Anyone else or anyone different?

(H)

ODU
Stetson
Bethune-Cookman


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W&M
Texas Tech
 
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As I recall, Shaver said something about not playing us this year in the postgame or something from last year's matchup.
 
Can anyone recall when the full schedule was released last year? Seems like we should be really close.
 
SF has our current OOC at 5 Home,3 Away and 2 Neutral.We presently only play 5 games in December with spacing games 11days(5th->16th) apart and 13days(16th->29th)apart.

Gotta figure we'll have 2-3 more games somewhere within the respective timeframes where there is a large void of non-playing.Likely we'll have to pay mid majors(NEC/Horizon/MAAC/Big South) to visit the RC.
 
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Argh, no game right after Xmas? That's the one time I'm able to get down there. I always looked forward to that game.
 
Nice to see the Texas Tech game on the schedule. Good to get the Texas guys a game in their home state. I wonder if Tubby will give us a home and home like he did with Minnesota?
 
ur2K said:
Nice to see the Texas Tech game on the schedule. Good to get the Texas guys a game in their home state. I wonder if Tubby will give us a home and home like he did with Minnesota?
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Yes, it has been reported that it's a home and away, like we had with Minnesota. Next year, the Red Raiders will be at the RC.
 
Had not paid too much attention to the schedule, but reading again, this is looking like a good/tough schedule.

Games either away or neutral:
Wake
WVA
SDSU/CAL
Florida
Texas Tech
and Home games:
Northern Iowa
ODU

If nothing else should have us ready for A10 play. Listening to Shawndre's podcast, he emphasized needing to come out strong in OOC play. Hope we can do that. If so I think this schedule will allow us to be in contention for an at large, though I like Fezz's confidence for our tourney chances.
 
SFspidur said:
Trying to piece together our schedule for next year, and other schools' schedules trickling out are starting to fill it out. Post here if you know any other dates.

11/13 James Madison
11/18 @ Wake Forest
11/21 Bethune-Cookman
11/23 Stetson
11/26 vs. West Virginia (Las Vegas)
11/27 vs. Cal or San Diego St. (Las Vegas)
12/01 @ Florida
12/05 Northern Iowa
12/12 Longwood
12/16 Old Dominion
12/29 @ Texas Tech
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The good thing about this schedule is we have MULTIPLE good road games to make our NCAA resume. No one expects us to go undefeated, but we get Wake, West VA, Cal/San Diego, Florida, and Texas Tech on the road.

Given that Wake and Texas Tech are the weaker teams in their leagues - I would say we need to win those games. And then win one of the remaining three (WVU, Cal/SD, Florida). If we can do that and protect our home court (only loss we can afford at home looks like Northern Iowa and maybe one more like ODU sneaks in there) we should have a good resume heading into A10 play.
 
I think Wake will be a tough game for us this year, especially at their place. We should win, but not a cake walk like they have tended to be since Dino got canned. I hate Huggy with a passion, but his teams are very physical, and always play tough defense. I think our best chances of a win are against Texas Tech, Cal/SD, and perhaps Wake, but none of those games are a sure thing by any measure.

I like this schedule a LOT better than last year's....
 
Well, if I recall correctly ( and I may not :)), last years OOC schedule looked like crap at this time of year - but many of the teams over acheived and it turned out to be a very strong RPI schedule - we just did not win enough of them.

This one looks good on paper, let's hope its not the reverse this year. In any event, just win baby. That takes care of a lot.
 
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I would say last year we got LUCKY in that many of the teams on our schedule ended up overachieving and therefore, made our schedule much stronger than it was originally set to be.

This season - it would be UNLUCKY if the teams underachieved and our schedule turned out worse than it was set to be.

Which do you prefer on a year in and year out basis? Probably a mix of both. I would say when your rebuilding like we were 3 years ago - then you can try to schedule light and hope teams overachieve. But I think for the most part - you want to schedule hard and take the chance that teams underachieve. I like our chances from a year to year basis scheduling that way.
 
Why would you want teams to underachieve? We want all competitors to overachieve and beat them when we match up.
 
SFspidur said:
Trying to piece together our schedule for next year, and other schools' schedules trickling out are starting to fill it out. Post here if you know any other dates.

11/13 James Madison
11/18 @ Wake Forest
11/21 Bethune-Cookman
11/23 Stetson
11/26 vs. West Virginia (Las Vegas)
11/27 vs. Cal or San Diego St. (Las Vegas)
12/01 @ Florida
12/05 Northern Iowa
12/12 Longwood
12/16 Old Dominion
12/29 @ Texas Tech
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PLEASE destroy JMU this year guys. Good for the A10, great for the city of Richmond, and I love seeing my former school lose to schools they "have never even heard of"
 
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Trap, I would much rather prefer scheduling teams that are expected to be good this year and might underachieve. There is too much risk with having a schedule of teams that you hope will do well.

However, that is true for the "bigger name" teams we schedule. I hope that our easier teams like Stetson, Longwood, etc. have good years relative to their standards. But for the most part, it is always beneficial to play historically strong teams like WVU, Cal/SDU, Florida, and others.
 
The point of my post was to pose the question - would your rather 1) Schedule like we did last year, where it was not a good schedule on paper, but because teams overachieved, it turned into a good schedule. So in reality - we need help from the teams on our schedule to overachieve to give us a shot. 2) Schedule hard from the start, and the risk being - it is possible the teams underachieve and you risk having a bad schedule.

I agree with SpiderStudent - it is always better to schedule hard and take the risk the teams might underachieve. I think the only time it is is good to schedule light like we did last year is when we are in a rebuilding year, like we were 3 years ago. This gives you a chance to rack up some wins, and if your lucky - maybe get some postseason bids because of teams overachieving.
 
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I think we're much less knowledgeable here on this board about the potential SOS than we think we are, and than the staff creating the schedule. they told us last year that our schedule was strong. we on this board disagreed, and we were wrong. that doesn't mean the staff got lucky. it's not simply playing the bigger names or the teams that were good the season before.
 
+1 Spiderman. I would say that many of our board participants, myself included, have a well-intentioned but not necessarily well-informed opinion in some instances. i think that's part of the nature of the board, but agree heartily that i suspect the coaches are much better informed about potential competition than most of us are.
 
31 is max, some teams just have 30, a few even 29. depends on whether you are in certain kind of exempt tourney then you can get 31. But I'm expecting 31 like we had last year and big proponent of getting the max games. I believe this year's tourney lets us schedule 31 (13 OOC). However SF do you remember the rules on that? I'd really like to see 1 more mid to higher end game.
 
Yes, the limit is 31 with an exempt tourney (27 plus the 4-game tourney) or 29 without, so we can have 13 OOC games.
 
Chris Mooney said himself before the season last year that our OOC schedule was not what we had hoped it be, so I don't know where the "they told us the schedule was strong" is coming from. Cause even the coaching staff didn't have the balls to say that. Saying your OOC schedule is not what we hoped it would be is "coach speak" for our OOC schedule completely blows.

Let's not forget the Gotham Classic debacle where we waited and waited and waited for the Gotham Classic to get its act together and gives us their promised high BCS level opposition and then we ended up playing Pepperdine. In trade for that waiting game we got 3 of the worst cupcakes ever at home. Plus, I think we waited so long to figure out the details of the Gotham that it tied are hands in scheduling other quality opponets.

Last year's OOC schedule was a disaster on paper before the season started and our staff knew it and even publically copped to as much they could. We drew an inside straight with pretty much every crappy team we scheduled had great years. Or as Trap said, we got lucky, really lucky.

Sometimes being lucky is the best possible outcome but let us not confuse luck with pre-planned skill, advanced knowledge of our coaching staff in what happened in pulling out OOC schedule to together. Our coaching staff has done a really good job of putting together a quality OOC both in the years prior to last year and again this year. Last year, was a "learning experience" though.
 
That's not how I remember it. Maybe he said that to you directly?
I remember the video of the preseason press conference where he spoke highly of the schedule. On here we blasted it.
 
I wish I could remember Spiderman when he said it, but it was not to just to me. He said it in some type of media interview, perhaps with Bob Black. It surprised me a bit because again the coach has to tow a company line when it comes to your schedule for a number of reasons. Chances are he only said it once publically because again there are some negatives to admitting such a thing publically (bulletin board materials for you opponnets, At large ammo against you, etc...).
 
I still don't remember that. I think CM's too good at this to say out loud that it was weak, even if he thought it was. Or maybe he didn't think it was. And it wasn't.

“As usual, our schedule is very challenging this season,” Mooney said. “We have a strong non-conference slate and the Atlantic 10 has proven over the last 10-20 years that it is one of the best conferences in the country. Last year was no exception.”

http://www.richmondspiders.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209621089
 
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I still don't remember that. I think CM's too good at this to say out loud that it was weak, even if he thought it was. Or maybe he didn't think it was. And it wasn't.

“As usual, our schedule is very challenging this season,” Mooney said. “We have a strong non-conference slate and the Atlantic 10 has proven over the last 10-20 years that it is one of the best conferences in the country. Last year was no exception.”

http://www.richmondspiders.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209621089
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The schedule last year was bad on paper, the coaches new it. I don't know why you would expect them to say anything other than “As usual, our schedule is very challenging this season” even when they know it isn't true.
 
Just looking at our schedule from last year now. Northeastern, William and Mary, and High Point all ended up being Top 100 RPI teams. Seriously, we are talking about High Point here. ODU was Top 50 RPI team (the same ODU at the time was just 1 season removed from probably one of the darkest years in the program and Northern Iowa who we thought might be a top 50 game, ended up being a Top 15 RPI team. Anyone who predicted those teams to be that good at the beginning of the season, should quit their day job and move full time to Vegas so they can beat the books out there.

And to think if had we beaten Northern Iowa we probably would have been an at large team. Or had we not lost to Wake on a ridiculous comeback/buzzer beater and then followed that up with an epic collapse against Northeastern, we would have been dancing as well.

Our schedule this year could be just as unlucky or last year's was lucky, but I like our odds a lot better of having a strong OOC this year than last. We have multiple games to get a really impactful win.
 
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The schedule last year was bad on paper, the coaches new it. I don't know why you would expect them to say anything other than “As usual, our schedule is very challenging this season” even when they know it isn't true.
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I don't know what CM thought about the schedule. I only know what he said. Or at least what I heard and saw that he said.
 
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Just looking at our schedule from last year now. Northeastern, William and Mary, and High Point all ended up being Top 100 RPI teams. Seriously, we are talking about High Point here. ODU was Top 50 RPI team (the same ODU at the time was just 1 season removed from probably one of the darkest years in the program and Northern Iowa who we thought might be a top 50 game, ended up being a Top 15 RPI team. Anyone who predicted those teams to be that good at the beginning of the season, should quit their day job and move full time to Vegas so they can beat the books out there.

And to think if had we beaten Northern Iowa we probably would have been an at large team. Or had we not lost to Wake on a ridiculous comeback/buzzer beater and then followed that up with an epic collapse against Northeastern, we would have been dancing as well.

Our schedule this year could be just as unlucky or last year's was lucky, but I like our odds a lot better of having a strong OOC this year than last. We have multiple games to get a really impactful win.
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All those teams are generally around 180, last year a few pundits predicted they would be around 120, they ended up around 90...

Then there was this #93, #100
http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/11637
 
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