Non-Con schedule out

[madguy30]

To 99% of people those games are essentially the same game. They're games vs teams no one gives a **** about.

Its one of the many reasons ncsos is such a garbage metric. To a tournament level team those are essentially the same game when looking at WAB

To me it's one of those things like the 'eye test' narrative that gets used in football.

There always seems to be a way to make sure the high rollers get their spotlight.

 

[HouClone]

2013-14 was probably the best hilton non con i can remember

• Michigan
• Auburn
• Iowa

You could have eliminated Auburn. They were not the Auburn team of now with Pearle. They were awful back then and couldn't shoot....great win against Michigan.

 

[alexssdean12]

I'm going to be blunt. Who the **** cares? They're buy games. The purpose is to pad out the schedule. The first few are especially designed as warm-up games to tune up before we hit meatier games in Maui. Every school has these. If you look at the slots we're filling (as I broke down earlier), it makes perfect sense we are scheduling the teams we are.

I'm sorry, but this is the stupidest ******* thing to care about.

Not to mention a lot of those others would either want a home and home or a significantly higher price tag. Neither of which is worth giving.

We're going to have a SOS near the top of college basketball again next year. Complaining that we're scheduling meaningless games against 200+ teams vs scheduling meaningless games vs 100-200 level teams is the most asinine thing.

Make no mistake I truly only care as much as the seeding committee cares. If we played 6 games against the school of the deaf and blind and were still able to get a one seed I'm all for it. The unfortunate reality is we got punished for having a weak non-con SOS last year. This was directly from the committees spokesperson. They for some reason value that in the same light as overall SOS.

There are certainly arguments why ISU's non-con was so bad (DePaul being horrible and Texas A&M/VTech/Iowa all not making the tournament doesn't help). The reality is playing top 200 teams instead of the sub 300 teams would have improved our non-con SOS for sure. Enough to grab that final one seed.. maybe.. maybe not.

This years team has a chance to do something special and I would like to leave no doubt in the committee's mind to give us our rightful seed placement.

 

[CloneLawman]

Make no mistake I truly only care as much as the seeding committee cares. If we played 6 games against the school of the deaf and blind and were still able to get a one seed I'm all for it. The unfortunate reality is we got punished for having a weak non-con SOS last year. This was directly from the committees spokesperson. They for some reason value that in the same light as overall SOS.

There are certainly arguments why ISU's non-con was so bad (DePaul being horrible and Texas A&M/VTech/Iowa all not making the tournament doesn't help). The reality is playing top 200 teams instead of the sub 300 teams would have improved our non-con SOS for sure. Enough to grab that final one seed.. maybe.. maybe not.

This years team has a chance to do something special and I would like to leave no doubt in the committee's mind to give us our rightful seed placement.

There would have been some other reason not to give ISU it's "rightful" seeding. There is a whole arsenal of weapons that can be arbitrarily employed when needed.

 

[NWICY]

JP and TJ can schedule however they want, it won't change my game attendance anyway.

 

[t-noah]

Cool, we shouldn't be playing bottom of the barrell teams anymore. The orher 6 are absolute trash. A cuople fine but 6 is a joke.

Half the top 10 will be big 12 anyway so conference play is going to be insane enough. We have earned some cupcakes.

Yes, and the other half, Rulzzz, will be top-50. We will have plenty of challenging BB.

Not to worry or go crazy, CyCrazy. We will be fine. We are going to need some games to play all these potential starters that we have now. I really like our depth!

 

[t-noah]

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I do like that D-Wat is prominent here. That could be saying something of how the coaches feel about him.

 

[AlaCyclone]

and the talking heads never brought up the Ward factor when they were trashing our non con schedule. They never took that into consideration when they made us the last 2 seed. We should have been in another bracket. Oh well, it's not the first time th committee screwed us.

The bracket had nothing to do with ISU losing in the Sweet 16 last season. Playing Illinois in Boston was totally neutral. ISU playing in the Sweet 16 in any of the other 3 brackets would not have been more or less beneficial.

 

[Messi]

 

[1UNI2ISU]

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It's the natural next step of the P5 in basketball separating themselves.

Drive up the price of buy games so that the A10/MWC/WCC/MVC can't buy them anymore to give the power leagues even more of a metrics advantage to get even more bids.

The only reason the Omaha game is so cheap is that it's a double dip for Omaha, they play in Cedar Falls for $75k on 12/13 and then get a second game for $50k in Ames two days later. $125k for two hotel nights and a bus.

 

[alarson]

It's the natural next step of the P5 in basketball separating themselves.

Drive up the price of buy games so that the A10/MWC/WCC/MVC can't buy them anymore to give the power leagues even more of a metrics advantage to get even more bids.

The only reason the Omaha game is so cheap is that it's a double dip for Omaha, they play in Cedar Falls for $75k on 12/13 and then get a second game for $50k in Ames two days later. $125k for two hotel nights and a bus.

I was wondering if it had something to do with the cancelled game awhile back too.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I do like that D-Wat is prominent here. That could be saying something of how the coaches feel about him.

I think it says a lot about his character that he's fought through some things and stuck with it when he wasn't getting the minutes. You really need guys like that on your team.

 

[CoachHines3]

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wait so, 100K, 120K, 150K is absurdly high and 50K is absurdly low?

so what isn't absurd?

brb gonna go push a turd.

 

[ClubCy]

Surely this won’t rule people up.