2010-11 SCHEDULE IS OUT

[The Mad Hatter]

I'm disappointed for two reasons:

A. It's a poor schedule which will be considered weak at tournament selection time,
B. The rosey worded article looks pretty political, like the writer had to make a poor NC schedule look and sound like a very challenging feat. Does this writer also work for the White House?

The problem is that it is not a poor schedule. We have some really good competition, the problem is that our bad opponents are so bad that it threatens to negate the really good schools on the schedule.

The trick that the major conferences have perfected is monopolizing games against the mediocre cupcake teams by being able to offer better buyouts and more national publicity. This is where rpi is a lie. Just because you beat a school that is #200 in the rpi instead of #300 does not mean that the #200 school was any challenge to you or that it made your schedule harder, but you get a big rpi boost. This is why competition for buy out games is so intense. The key is finding a team that has no chance to beat you, but won't hurt your rpi.

[ShockerFever]

So are we playing at IBA this season?

From what I got from a pretty high source is that the Tulsa game is for sure at IBA.

[DUShock]

http://www.goshockers.com//pdf8/712479.pdf

[ShockerFever]

It will be nice to see Mason Felter get some playing time in the Roundhouse.

No offense to Mr. Felter, but no it won't.

[fuball7]

pretty disapointed to spend so much money for season tickets and have to sit thru that non conference schedule. plus not to mention tulsa will probably be at IBA and i will have to pay even more money for it.

[shockar25]

If we play well enough hopefully this year we'll get a Bracket Buster opponent at home that will be something to get excited about. That would also help our RPI.

While I'm disappointed with the 300+ rpi teams, I can't say that I'm surprised. It is what it is. They know what they need to do, and now they just need to do it. Win baby.

[Yellow Snow]

This is a truly disappointing schedule. LSU was scheduled under Mark I am pretty sure. San Diego State is the MVC MWC challenge. So other than Tulsa what team did he schedule that has a RPI under 225? That is not even mentioning that 2 of them are in the mid 300's. Very Very poor.

[im4wsu]

Part of it is bad timing:

2008-09 2009-10 Team
323 - 227 Texas Southern
309 - 281 UMKC
234 - 345 Chicago St
34 - 18 SD St.
334 - 332 Alabama A&M
37 - 223 LSU
53 - 68 Tulsa
6 - 28 Michigan St
8 - 64 UConn
5 - 124 Oklahoma
79 - 2 Kentucky
114 - 127 Virginia
14 - 41 Washington

Kind of a crapshoot, really.

[ShockerFever]

pretty disapointed to spend so much money for season tickets and have to sit thru that non conference schedule. plus not to mention tulsa will probably be at IBA and i will have to pay even more money for it.

Tulsa IBA game is included in the season ticket package. But I pretty much agree with your point. CKA games in the non-con are absolutely horrendous. I don't think the continual price hike for season tickets has been justified.

[Veritas]

Not sure I understand the rationale for scheduling such a weak OoC home schedule. I don't buy into the argument that no one of decent to strong RPI will play in Wichita. This begs the question to schedule 1:2 against tough competition and bring some good teams to Koch or IBA.

We waited a long time for this schedule and frankly speaking the home OoC leaves a lot to be desired.

[SB Shock]

Man......maui will define the season unless the mvc somehow happens to be good. Really disappointng schedule.

[BOBB]

Even beating UCONN is no guarantee to an at-large if we play well. Look what happened with VaTech losing to James Madison. Probably ended Boise's title hopes. There is little room for error on our part and little room for our opponents. Poop!

[GoShockers89]

Either we were strung along by a couple of "better" cupcakes for a while, only to have them jilt us for a better payout at the last minute, or the person in charge of assembling this sucker is incompetent and/or lazy. I hope for the former, but it's still no excuse.

You just can not come out with a schedule like this in one of our most hyped seasons in the last 25 years. If anything, this was the year to take a chance with an additional 1 and done road contest at a North Carolina, etc.

Oh well. I guess we'll just have to win them all.

:wsu_posters:

[The Mad Hatter]

Not sure I understand the rationale for scheduling such a weak OoC home schedule. I don't buy into the argument that no one of decent to strong RPI will play in Wichita. This begs the question to schedule 1:2 against tough competition and bring some good teams to Koch or IBA.

We waited a long time for this schedule and frankly speaking the home OoC leaves a lot to be desired.

Why do you think you know who would or would not play us? Why would you assume that the coaches are turning down quality teams that are willing to play in Wichita? Wouldn't the amount of time it took to release the schedule suggest that the coaches didn't see these cupcakes as their first choice and were trying to hold out for better competition?

[ShoxFan45]

Not sure I understand the rationale for scheduling such a weak OoC home schedule. I don't buy into the argument that no one of decent to strong RPI will play in Wichita. This begs the question to schedule 1:2 against tough competition and bring some good teams to Koch or IBA.

We waited a long time for this schedule and frankly speaking the home OoC leaves a lot to be desired.

Why do you think you know who would or would not play us? Why would you assume that the coaches are turning down quality teams that are willing to play in Wichita? Wouldn't the amount of time it took to release the schedule suggest that the coaches didn't see these cupcakes as their first choice and were trying to hold out for better competition?

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