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Post by bigtasty on Aug 19, 2024 9:55:16 GMT -6
Amen! Testify!
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Post by tribecalledquest2024 on Aug 19, 2024 10:07:32 GMT -6
Indiana State lost at home to a bad Illinois State team last year. Those kinds of losses can’t happen. The Sycs also had ZERO Q1 or Q2 wins in the non conference. That’s not going to get it done either. Not only did they lose to that Illinois State team, ISUred had a lot of injuries they were dealing with. It was a really terrible loss. Bradley is the prohibitive favorite to win the Valley this year, especially because the Valley sucks. Mark my words, we are going to lament this schedule in March when we somehow lose a game in the Valley tournament and get left out. We had an opportunity to schedule like the Valley favorite, and we wiffed. Simple as that. The problem is everyone on campus runs from the "Valley Favorite" line. They hate it. Having those expectations isn't something that is embraced.
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Post by ljsites on Aug 19, 2024 11:13:16 GMT -6
If the staff is so risk averse that they refused to use 15% of our scholarships on potential contributors, there's no chance in hell they're going to take any risks in scheduling.
It's much easier to play it safe and pad a win total - especially when building a professional vs. NCAA Tournament resume.
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Post by Spoon on Aug 22, 2024 13:11:13 GMT -6
Bracket is out for our MTE. We start with Texas State, and are seeded on the same side as Princeton. Gives us the opportunity to play both Princeton and South Florida if things fall our way.
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Post by squirrel on Aug 22, 2024 14:10:13 GMT -6
Well, it's still set up for us to get 2 quality games if us, USF and Princeton take care of business. Texas State had the best ranking out of the bottom half of the field, so about as good as we can expect, unless we wanted a guaranteed game out of the box.
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Post by tribecalledquest2024 on Aug 23, 2024 8:01:30 GMT -6
Well, it's still set up for us to get 2 quality games if us, USF and Princeton take care of business. Texas State had the best ranking out of the bottom half of the field, so about as good as we can expect, unless we wanted a guaranteed game out of the box. I doubt that we had a whole lot of say in what team we wanted to play in the first round.
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Post by squirrel on Aug 24, 2024 22:38:18 GMT -6
Didn't think it was possible to be pantsed more than the PJStar, but apparently Myrtle Beach is in FL. Edit: WMBD Radio had a release that highlighted that both men's and women's teams schedules featured trips to Florida, but that story has since been corrected.
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Post by dss03 on Aug 28, 2024 16:50:24 GMT -6
SIU got a 2 for 1 with High Point. I don’t know the back and forth, and I know we filled that date a few weeks back, but the date SIU has High Point at home for the first game this season is 12-21, the date we bought Canisius.
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Post by squirrel on Sept 5, 2024 16:55:35 GMT -6
Any word on timetable for league schedule? In recent years it's gotten later and later, last year on the 22nd of September - literally just a month before the season started. But in previous years, it's been typically no later than the week after Labor Day.
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Post by Butler Blue on Sept 6, 2024 9:29:29 GMT -6
Any word on timetable for league schedule? In recent years it's gotten later and later, last year on the 22nd of September - literally just a month before the season started. But in previous years, it's been typically no later than the week after Labor Day. Labor Day was always the target. Not sure what has changed that.
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Post by ph on Sept 20, 2024 14:26:12 GMT -6
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Post by tribecalledquest2024 on Sept 20, 2024 14:28:38 GMT -6
Jim Les thinks the Valley screwed Bradley again.
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Post by ph on Sept 20, 2024 14:39:35 GMT -6
Jim Les thinks the Valley screwed Bradley again. In years past, I would complain about facing a few top teams at the beginning of the schedule (knowing we usually played better later). This year, I have no clue what the league will be like, so it seems decent. And we don’t seem to have as much PCC scheduling conflicts with a good number of Saturday games (and only 1 potential end of December Football conflict Sunday vs Valpo.)
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Post by JMM28 on Sept 20, 2024 15:30:06 GMT -6
Don't see a loss on it...
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Post by tribecalledquest2024 on Sept 20, 2024 16:06:35 GMT -6
As old message board friend srw told me recently. The last team with expectations this high was the 1987-88 group. Embrace it.
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Post by squirrel on Sept 21, 2024 0:37:50 GMT -6
Jim Les thinks the Valley screwed Bradley again. Funny! Although remember Mo lobbying for an every team opens league at home scheme. I'm just cranky because there is probably zero difference between what was released today and what could have been released 2 weeks ago. And then they drop it on a Friday afternoon when I can't do anything with the info for 3 days.
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Post by ph on Sept 21, 2024 9:13:59 GMT -6
Jim Les thinks the Valley screwed Bradley again. Funny! Although remember Mo lobbying for an every team opens league at home scheme. I'm just cranky because there is probably zero difference between what was released today and what could have been released 2 weeks ago. And then they drop it on a Friday afternoon when I can't do anything with the info for 3 days. They announced the new multi-year CBS and ESPN deals on the 10th and 11th. I wonder if that impacted scheduling dates?
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Post by JMM28 on Sept 21, 2024 10:52:32 GMT -6
Funny! Although remember Mo lobbying for an every team opens league at home scheme. I'm just cranky because there is probably zero difference between what was released today and what could have been released 2 weeks ago. And then they drop it on a Friday afternoon when I can't do anything with the info for 3 days. They announced the new multi-year CBS and ESPN deals on the 10th and 11th. I wonder if that impacted scheduling dates? I’d say the general incompetence of the league office impacted the schedule release.
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Post by Butler Blue on Sept 22, 2024 10:25:06 GMT -6
They announced the new multi-year CBS and ESPN deals on the 10th and 11th. I wonder if that impacted scheduling dates? I’d say the general incompetence of the league office impacted the schedule release. They miss Doug and Jack.
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Post by squirrel on Sept 25, 2024 10:44:21 GMT -6
OK having had a chance to finally fully digest the league schedule:
The Good -Acceptable matchups for the one-offs -The bridge from the end of non-conference has us playing 5 of 6 and 6 of 8, including probable key games against Drake and Missouri State, and the road games at Indiana State and UIC. A great chance to start at least 6-1.
The Bad 3 of last 5 on the road can keep things interesting
The Ugly -Both Belmont games being mid-week
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