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NashTide said...
That's a good point. It's sort of the Mark Gottfried school of scheduling after he got screwed by the committee in his third season. (Ducks as another CMG comparison is made.) We saw this last year when we lost at home to Georgetown, as well. It was a "good" loss.
Gottfried eventually found a way to schedule a bunch of good teams - few great ones - but a lot of good ones, in the non-conference. There weren't too many 250+ cakewalks on the schedule, but there weren't many 20+ games either. That way, if he won a majority he was in good shape, but there weren't any losses that would kill him. That and a stronger SEC were reasons why he consistently got in with worse records than we have even now.
I think CAG has been hurt a lot by trying to schedule "name" teams and then those "name" teams tank it the year we play them. Look at our games vs Okla State, Texas Tech, Georgia Tech, Oregon State, Villanova, etc. In other years those all could've been RPI boosters but Ok State, TTU and Ga Tech were pure garbage when we played them.
@VCU this year wasn't a bad loss, nor was @Cinci. But by losing both it took away any margin for error elsewhere.
This post was edited by Brian Henry on 3/5/2013 at 6:38 PM
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