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Lambo gets first shot at traveling to and through the AAC and he, Shannon and his staff will bet to be the Guinea Pigs. No doubt Lambo and staff will be more popular with other Shocker coaching staffs than usual this fall.
The AAC has played a full double round robin using travel partners which is what the Valley did. That means 22 AAC matches vs 18 in the Valley. However, the AAC does not have a post-season tournament to determine their NCAA auto-bid which Lambo likes and so do I.
I assume that Tulsa will be our travel partner. In looking at last year's AAC schedule it looks like travel partners play their matches on Wednesdays. The Valley did move two matches per team to the mid-week a couple of year's ago to free up another weekend for teams to add another tournament in order to try to improve RPI's. The Valley played the remainder of their travel partners almost exclusively back-to-back on Friday and Saturday. Looks like the AAC tries to provide a day off in between matches so they go will usually schedule travel partners on Thursday-Saturday or Friday-Sunday.
Apparently, their is a limit on the number days a team can compete during the season so the increase in conference games means Lambo will have to adjust his tournament schedule. Doesn't sound like he wants to cut back on a tournament so he will try to compress his team's matches at tournaments from over 3 days to 2 days if he can although that might add to the physical stress on is team.
Lambo has confirmed my thoughts that the AAC and the Valley are comparable at the top (and the Valley perhaps a little better) but that the bottom half of the AAC will be better than the bottom half of the Valley.
The AAC has played a full double round robin using travel partners which is what the Valley did. That means 22 AAC matches vs 18 in the Valley. However, the AAC does not have a post-season tournament to determine their NCAA auto-bid which Lambo likes and so do I.
I assume that Tulsa will be our travel partner. In looking at last year's AAC schedule it looks like travel partners play their matches on Wednesdays. The Valley did move two matches per team to the mid-week a couple of year's ago to free up another weekend for teams to add another tournament in order to try to improve RPI's. The Valley played the remainder of their travel partners almost exclusively back-to-back on Friday and Saturday. Looks like the AAC tries to provide a day off in between matches so they go will usually schedule travel partners on Thursday-Saturday or Friday-Sunday.
Apparently, their is a limit on the number days a team can compete during the season so the increase in conference games means Lambo will have to adjust his tournament schedule. Doesn't sound like he wants to cut back on a tournament so he will try to compress his team's matches at tournaments from over 3 days to 2 days if he can although that might add to the physical stress on is team.
Lambo has confirmed my thoughts that the AAC and the Valley are comparable at the top (and the Valley perhaps a little better) but that the bottom half of the AAC will be better than the bottom half of the Valley.
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