“We’ll go through the whole WCC, we’ll call everybody,” Rahe said. “Then we’ll go through the Big West, then we’ll go through the WAC, and then we go through the Mountain West. The Mountain West schools very rarely will ever go play at a Big Sky school on the road. They don’t do that anymore because they don’t have to.”
Why? Those bigger schools have the money to bring in smaller schools to their home courts without returning the favor.
“The Mountain West and even the WCC now can buy up to four to five opponents to come in and play them at home so they don’t have to go on the road,” Rahe said. “The Mountain West will buy six or seven. There’s no reason for them to go play a Big Sky school on the road. They just won’t do it. They don’t have to.”
