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Originally Posted by jpschmack
You'll notice I have said multiple times "Schedule for 9-10 wins." If you're a top team like Xavier, Temple, etc, that's not a problem.
This concept is what Xavier and Dayton have been doing the entire time. There's a reason schools like Duquesne and St. Bona have hired new ADs from the UD and XU administrations recently. They've ALWAYS understood this.
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Except that's NOT what you said earlier.
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Originally Posted by jpschmack
But we can make it work for us. By all scheduling 10 easy wins OOC, we can start 160-0 vs cupcakes.
In the other four games each, we play "the best teams we have a shot of beating beating" for the top half, and "We're gonna get creamed but it makes our SOS stronger" for the bottom teams. And we go 16-48 in those games.
Our top half can count all the games vs the top half as marquee games, and we can get a lot of teams in the dance.
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Your concept of OOC scheduling is NOT what Xavier and Temple have always been doing. Xavier and Temple (and once Temple leaves I assume Butler and VCU) will never schedule "10 easy wins" OOC. They will always schedule between 4-6 projected "easy wins" and 8-10 projected challenging games against relatively marquee opponents.
Again, take a look at the pre-season OOC scheduling analyses from last year. In many, Xavier's was ranked toughest in the nation. That doesn't come from a philosophy of scheduling "10 easy wins." That comes from a philosophy of scheduling 4 projected easy wins.