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Post by skeller6 on Jul 24, 2024 6:52:29 GMT -5
Mansfield, really? We have played Mansfield State before, and everyone needs a cupcake tune up game, right? |
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Post by Sipowicz on Jul 24, 2024 8:05:58 GMT -5
Mansfield, really? We have played Mansfield State before, and everyone needs a cupcake tune up game, right? Yes, but as exhibition games. |
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Post by dadster81 on Jul 24, 2024 9:26:09 GMT -5
Not knowing anything about Mansfield, I went to their website and found a number of interesting things: - Like Bonas, advertises that it is in the mountains. Their nickname is the Mounties. - in 2022, formed something called the "Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania was officially formed on July 1, 2022 when Bloomsburg University, Lock Haven University, and Mansfield University integrated as a single, comprehensive university with multiple campuses to expand high-quality, affordable academic opportunities to support the needs of all learners." - they will be prepared to play us, as they will be coming off a game against powerful D'Youville  |
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Post by rf1 on Jul 24, 2024 13:17:55 GMT -5
Mansfield? What a joke. We really need to reevaluate our scheduling. That is something inferior programs like Canisius and Niagara do. Unfortunately A-10 schools seem to be scheduling more non D1 opponents in recent years. I think some of it has to do with the escalating costs for buy games against D1 opponents. It appears that the going rate for D1 teams is now in the $70-90k range. Non D1 teams will play for far less (possibly as low as $25k). Furthermore, games versus bad D1 teams count in the computer ratings with them mostly hurting the numbers. Games versus non D1 teams do not count in the computer ratings and are not considered for NCAA Tournament evaluation. With scheduling good D1 teams becoming more difficult for A-10 teams, non D1 programs are appearing on more league member schedules. Typically it is just one game and its only real purpose is to add another home date to get season ticket package revenue from. These contests will not have much in the way of single game ticket sales and many season ticket holders will choose to skip. The athletic dept will however still get the per game ticket revenue from the full season ticket base. |
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Post by bub on Jul 24, 2024 14:09:08 GMT -5
The athletic dept will however still get the per game ticket revenue from the full season ticket base. [/quote]
So in other words screw the season ticket holders with a garbage game like Mansfield. Our tentative OOC home schedule: Alfred (Exhibition), Cal St Northridge, LeMoyne, Mansfield, Bryant, UB and Niagara. Doesn't the home crowd deserve to be entertained as well?
I ran across Iona's non-conference home schedule. They are playing Vermont, Harvard, Delaware and Cornell. All of those teams would be better than any of the teams currently on our non-conference home schedule. How did Iona do it?
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Post by jjjacks17 on Jul 24, 2024 15:19:06 GMT -5
Right. I live in Buffalk and usually try to get down for an OOC game and an A10 game but there doesn’t seem to be much on our non conference home schedule worth driving down for.
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Post by kccgold on Jul 24, 2024 16:22:35 GMT -5
Simply gotta do better than that home slate
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Post by chrismoses on Jul 24, 2024 17:03:41 GMT -5
So in other words screw the season ticket holders with a garbage game like Mansfield. Our tentative OOC home schedule: Alfred (Exhibition), Cal St Northridge, LeMoyne, Mansfield, Bryant, UB and Niagara. Doesn't the home crowd deserve to be entertained as well? I ran across Iona's non-conference home schedule. They are playing Vermont, Harvard, Delaware and Cornell. All of those teams would be better than any of the teams currently on our non-conference home schedule. How did Iona do it? [/quote] It's almost as if playing 4 annual H&Hs with the likes of Siena, Canisius, Niagara and Buffalo HINDERS your ability to have scheduling flexibility. Who would have thunk it. Most of the teams mentioned above would want to play Bona H&H, but obviously that's not possible given a third of our schedule each year is already written in stone. |
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Post by coach on Jul 25, 2024 3:41:37 GMT -5
Unfortunately, the Atlantic 10 is at most a 2 team tournament bid conference. Duquesne only made the tourney by upsetting Dayton in the a-10 championship. Non conference schedule really doesn't mean as much anymore. You could beat 5 non conference teams ranked in the top 25 but finish 3rd in A-10 conf standings and most likely would not make the NCAA tourney. The whole Net Quadrant ranking really does not matter in this conference. The conference is and has been a 1-2 bid conference.
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Post by thesocalkid on Jul 25, 2024 5:31:59 GMT -5
Anybody but, Cal St Northridge - and then Bonas is paying them to come here and play  We have been bitchin and complaining about the schedule for years. So let's do what Cuse does and play poor teams first just to set the team. ( CA is being run into the dirt by Sacramento it has become a bottomless out house ) |
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Post by ceharv on Jul 25, 2024 7:52:40 GMT -5
Rf1 - thanks for your valuable post. Instead of just complaining, you explain why current rules and practices actually encourage teams to do exactly what the NCAA said a few years ago it wanted to avoid and change - the refusal of top programs to leave the comforts of home (domed or otherwise) to take on quality opponents in the OOC by rewarding those that do in the at large selection process and punish those that don’t. Obviously the changes didn’t go far enough to get to the core of the problem, including but not limited to, the “buy game” process. But right now, the NCAA is stuck in neutral just trying to survive and won’t risk doing anything that might piss off the power conference schools, the defection of which would eviscerate the organization if not put it completely out of business. So I guess that means more Mansfield States and fewer intriguing programs visiting the RC or even agreeing to play us at all, anywhere. No surprise here, ultimately money rules.
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Post by zorro (res) on Jul 25, 2024 17:17:08 GMT -5
Per the Bucknell poster I've referenced before, this is the latest:
"An Internet source that might or might not be reliable, the Saint Bonaventure game is scheduled for December 4 (Wednesday) in Sojka."
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Post by chrismoses on Jul 25, 2024 18:01:39 GMT -5
Per the Bucknell poster I've referenced before, this is the latest: "An Internet source that might or might not be reliable, the Saint Bonaventure game is scheduled for December 4 (Wednesday) in Sojka." Bona must be hurtin’ for cash. Not only do we have SIX H&Hs on the schedule this year, but all but one (UB) are from low mid major programs. No offense to Bucknell as they’ve done pretty well over the last 20 years or so, but they are most likely a Q3 road game. The rest of our H&Hs also appear to be q3/4 games as well. |
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Post by bona20 on Jul 25, 2024 19:34:11 GMT -5
This schedule is completely unacceptable. Our best home game is Bryant or Cal State Northridge. We are buying a D2. We are going on the road to play two MAAC teams, an ASUN team, and apparently a Patriot League team. I’m not expecting a schedule like VCU or Dayton, but we have to do better than this slop and act like an A10 team. What is Pappano even doing? I will always get my season tickets, but this makes me seriously question their value.
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Post by jjjacks17 on Jul 26, 2024 8:36:18 GMT -5
There are no intriguing OOC games and nobody knows who these players on our team are. How can we market season ticket sales? This is sad
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