FredD wrote:

GWRising wrote:

Joel Joseph wrote:

Rising, the majority of us 15 folks on this site aren't buying the same old excuses for mediocrity.
That same lame argument can be made by every team not ranked in the top 100 (which is 230+ teams), which isn't happening. We only have to look as far as GM and American to see your argument makes no sense. They are competitive and seem to schedule in a way that gets them ready for conference play and their coaches don't seem to be padding their schedule to keep their jobs. I don't want a coach who needs to do that for self preservation.

Joel, I get that you are stuck in 2016 but again that era is long gone. Absent winning the A-10 outright, we aren't going to the NCAA's based on any OOC schedule we could get in the best case scenario. Short of that, the NIT, Crown, etc. does it really matter which one now? How did A-10 do in NIT? Pretty much same as GW did in Crown. It's easy to say we should schedule this or that on your keyboard. Reality is much different now.

That said, nobody is saying that we should schedule only sub 300 teams. But expecting a schedule of more than one or two potential NCAA teams in the OOC (outside of any in an MTE) is just plain foolishness. Why would you cut your own throat for limited upside?

More importantly, neither of American or George Mason's schedules were at-large worthy. So again, if your point is that the NIT is some much better tournament now than the Crown then I guess the schedule made a difference. However, had we defeated George Mason in the A-10 tournament with our "terrible" schedule and all, we'd have been right in the NIT as well. So what are we really talking about other than re-arranging the deck chairs?

We basically have one path now ... win the A-10. I am not sure the OOC schedule will make us more or less able to do that.

Rising I agree, my hopes are less ambitious

1) Schedule 1 home-and-home with decent or top Mid-Major School.
2) For the 300 level schools, schedule a few more schools from the northest.
3) GW should play American every year.
4) Since an At Large is mirage, a top 4 finish and that double bye absolutely needs to be the no bull-shit goal! Why? Because I finishing 14-4 means real entertainment, must see TV and virtually no bad losses.
Because if GW is going to play the NIL game

Very reasonable.