Why we schedule such stupid games... I'd rather taste some strong teams and get smoked to prepare for early B1G games
Why we schedule such stupid games... I'd rather taste some strong teams and get smoked to prepare for early B1G games
Got to ask the old coaching staff.
BU sounded like he wants a tougher schedule in the future when asked after the depaul game.
Q: Will a win against Augustana count to the selection committee?
A: No. But it doesn't hurt the RPI like some low-majors would
https://twitter.com/JWerner247/status/932391294240022528
last year we would be 3-1 with a couple nail biters and double digit WTFs
That is the last thing this team needs. Sure playing tough competition makes for better TV but this team needs to build confidence and learn the system. So many new faces and guys getting used to college hoops.
We have won 4 games against bad or ok teams.
I'm pretty sure the AD makes the schedules. Probably with some input from the coaches, but the AD is responsible for the schedule.
There might not be 2000 people at this game. You play who is on your schedule, but boy is the OOC schedule weak.
Might as well make tickets free considering (1) it's a really really weak team and (2) it's during Thanksgiving week. Or...maybe just make tickets 5 dollars?
Whose minutes do you want to take away to get those 20-24 minutes of playing time? I think all he is going to get is a couple minutes of playing time against lesser competition and is not leaving the bench against the tough teams.
Actually, last year we were 4-0 at this point -- although the doubts were around from the get go, the actual cracks didn't start to fully show until the Winthrop game when our schedule started to get challenging.
The Augustana game will show us how the team is maturing. They are a well coached team that basically returns most of the players who made it to the D-III championship game last year. They are way ahead of us in terms of their ability to work together as a team, run their offense, etc., though significantly behind us in terms of talent. But our players would be wise to pay attention to the scouting, etc. Reminds me a little bit of the (exhibition) game against Washington University last year -- if we simply expect to win by showing up, it will be a much tighter game than most expect. If our guys respect the process the way they should, it should be a fairly straightforward win.
Since Matic's redshirt is burned, I hope Coach lets him get 20-25 minutes of court time. Playing 1-3 minutes at a time is just no way to get into the flow of anything.
Let him sweat, put up a few numbers, learn from some mistakes, and feel like he contributed. It won't change at all what he can do to help the team vs Michigan State, but it will help his outlook and get him energized to keep developing.
Besides that, the fans want to see some teets.
Don't sleep on Augie. They are highly ranked D3 and execute well.
Getting wins while making mistakes that the coaching staff can teach off of is infinitely better than having all the shortcomings exposed at once and getting smoked by a team like Villanova or Kansas. Listening to Underwood they clearly aren't just going into the post game meetings happy that they won and moving on. Even based on the tweets from today BU was on the team up 20 about things they were doing wrong.
We are currently on #283 Strength of Opponent from BPI and #302 SOS from Kenpom. Next we play a D3 opponent. I don't think this is the level that a B1G team should learn things from. You can smash 20 potatoes and then get smashed in the conference.
I don't think our games before the conference can prepare us well enough for how to deal with Happ/Haas/Bridges or even Vick Law
So basically this game is another exhibition? Wonder if BU will treat it as such. Would be a good time to get Ebo more PT.