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Post by Grizzfan1 on Apr 21, 2014 11:28:03 GMT -5
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Post by oudrummer on Apr 21, 2014 13:04:02 GMT -5
It's a start......
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Post by Pioneer on Apr 22, 2014 5:36:46 GMT -5
I did find it interesting that the agreement was to compete against them in several sports during the non conference schedule. Particularly in basketball. It is definitely a start of something.
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Post by ouguy on Apr 22, 2014 11:48:03 GMT -5
You had me excited there! Hopefully we get a basketball game out of this membership. I know in the summit we had some different teams in swimming and soccer and it never really translated to basketball
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Post by Blackbird on Apr 23, 2014 12:24:02 GMT -5
This may just be wishful thinking, but I think this points to a Belmont who wants to join the HL but can't (yet) for financial reasons. Whether that's an additional early exit penalty from the OVC they'd have to pay for jumping so quickly or just that they're still paying off the A-Sun exit costs and the university refuses to "double up" conference debts, I don't know, but it certainly seems plausible that money may be a factor.
Definitely good to have the OOC partnership though. Both because I want us to be able to play Belmont and I want teams like Wright State to be pushed into harder non-conference schedules.
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Post by Blackbird on Apr 24, 2014 14:11:50 GMT -5
I want teams like Wright State to be pushed into harder non-conference schedules. You might want to take a look at how conference RPI works. It is based almost completely on winning percentage. Wright State's 7-7 OOC record helped the conference a whole hell of a lot more than Oakland's 3-10 record. In fact, if you eliminate Wright State from the HL's calculations, the HL would have finished 15th instead of 14th. If you would have eliminated Oakland from the HL's calculations, we would have finished 13th instead of 14th. We overreached this year with scheduling and I'm not disagreeing with that, but I wasn't even arguing the effect on conference RPI. I think if we want to hold ourselves as a "high-mid" conference, it undercuts us when a team plays an OOC schedule full of cupcakes. I'd rather a coach be too confident in his team's level when scheduling than not confident enough.
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