I never said replace them, I said replace the home and home. What is wrong with a two for one? Another game in Hilton where fans can watch their team in state and get the revenue from tickets.
ISU vs Iowa MBB ending?
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I never said replace them, I said replace the home and home. What is wrong with a two for one? Another game in Hilton where fans can watch their team in state and get the revenue from tickets.
Not true. There are multiple coaches who have a large say in who they schedule, some (most marquee teams coaches) even handle all of the scheduling for their team. Fran knows that if he wants to play this team he and Barta will get together and schedule it, if Fran does not want to play a team then they won't.
It will be funny to read the DMR say that Fran is absolutly right and Iowa should drop ISU.:twitcy:
Look I'm not saying I want to play a UNC caliber team every game but we should not be scared to schedule MVC teams even if they are on the road. Even in the non-conference you need some "midrange" road games that will challenge you and get you ready for the conference season and UNI and Drake do exactly that I think without having to even cross the state borders. Go our and look at our opponent RPI and tell me we are scheduling too tough right now? Our SOS right now is 61 and some places think we have one of the weakest non-conference schedules in the Big 12. If we think Big 12 > MVC then we shouldn't be afraid to play UNI and Drake on the road. Like I said, just win the damn game. Good teams win no matter the opponent.
The problem is that in order to play against decent programs across the country in the non-conference you are going to be hard pressed to find teams that want to come to Hilton because of our reputation of being a tough place to play. Are we really willing to play 2 road games to 1 home game against some teams just for the sake of trying to play in markets we want to recruit in? Some teams make not even give us the option of getting a home game against them, they may want us to be one of their cupcake warm ups on a 1 year deal. It's a tough situation to be in when you are a program with big aspirations that has been mediocre at best lately because you haven't gained the respect to pick and choose your opponents at will till you prove it on the court.
Because Drake and UNI would never agree to it. I'd rather play a home and home than lose them over trying to get 2 to 1 home ratio.
Losing to 2 mvc teams? be careful now, you are only one bad loss away from talking about iowa state too.
We can get road experience by playing other mid-majors on the road that don't have us circled on the schedule. They are the only two teams in the country that circle ISU and Iowa on the schedule, even when we were in our glory years. It would not be tough to get some home and home with Big 10 teams other than Iowa. They have their bottom dweller teams that are similar to us at the moment and would be equivalent to the talent of UNI and Drake yet would not look as terrible if we do lose. Would you rather lose to Michigan and Minnesota or UNI and Drake? I can't say I know first had as I've never been on the selection committee but one does not look like the other.
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Comparing Drake and UNI to Campbell, UNI and getting killed by Clemson who is absolutely terrible at home? We are far from being Iowa at this point.
I'm sorry but this sounds exactly like the Hawkeyes excuse that the Iowa/ISU FB game is our "Super Bowl" every year. This thread would not even exist right now had we beat both UNI and Drake this year.
I would wait until after tomorrow night before you say to much. After that, you can say, "I told you so":spinny:
Could happen, hope I don't have to cry myself to sleep tomorrow night as the worst program in the state.
CycloneErik
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Compare it to the Hawks but it's not the same. When UNI and Drake join a BCS conference I'll be for a home and home. It most definitely is their "Super Bowl" I do not know how you could call it any different. Iowa is not our "Super Bowl." They may have been in the past but we have overcome that mentality given our recent success.
CycloneErik
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We won't be melting down tomorrow. I think we're gelling now. I'm not sure it matters if Iowa gels.
If we lose to Iowa tomorrow night this board will be chaos. I'm trying to put perspective on things right now. Iowa nor ISU can complain about playing UNI and Drake right now because until you make those games easy wins every season then your program is not where it needs to be and you have no case to say scheduling them is not worth it. You don't think all these cupcake teams that come into Hilton "have us circled on their schedules" right now considering they know that Hilton is a tough place to play and the fans think we should beat them by 20? I hate excuses being made, the point of playing the game is to win no matter the name on the other team's jersey or the location the game is being played. If you can't go into the Knapp Center 45 minutes away from your home court and about 1/2 the size of Hilton and not win convincingly on a consistent basis the scheduling is not the issue we need to be discussing.
