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How league offices are shaping league races
At conference headquarters across the land, two things are givens: complaints from schools about the officiating and complaints from schools about the schedule.
In the case of the former, leagues must try to hire well – both refs and supervisors of officials – and simply hope for the best. In the case of the latter, the job is nearly impossible and always thankless.
There is annual crabbing about who has to play where on how much rest, and who has the most difficult stretches of games. In the days of full round-robin scheduling, it all used to even out in the end. Then conferences became the size of China, and it became even more arduous to schedule fairness into the question.
So The Minutes sympathizes with the suits in charge of putting together a balanced slate. But it’s interesting to see how much strength-of-schedule appears to be impacting conference races at this point. Check Ken Pomeroy’s SOS numbers in the top 10 leagues and you’ll see the perks of an easy entry into conference play.
Here is what he says about WSU....
Missouri Valley (12): Co-leader Wichita State has played the No. 10 schedule out of 10, and fellow co-leader Creighton has played the No. 7 schedule. The Shockers already have played softies Bradley and Southern Illinois twice each.
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So while we are looking good at 7-1, we now get into the meat of our schedule. But I feel this team is ready to take that challenge.
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