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Future Schedules

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n.ogdencat

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Since the Big Sky is adding SUU and UND on July 1st, and is planning on having each team play each other twice during the conference (20 games) schedule, how will that affect our future OOC schedules? From what I can tell, with a 20 game conference schedule, Big Sky schools will be left with 8 perhaps 9 OOC games. If the Sky continues to fully participate in the late-conference OOC bracketbuster that will effectively leave 6 or 7 games (1game = return game from previous years brackbuster and 1game = annual bracketbuster) OOC games per year. Will this help the Cats RPI or hurt it? Personally, this might be a good thing. This might force some NAIA's and DII's off our schedule.

From what I can tell, out of our 6 or 7 remaining games, 2 or 3 could be a holiday tourny, of some sort, with the remaining 4 or 5 games being instate and regional foes. Also, with SUU joining the conference, Weber, at least, is only adding 19 conference games. So that will give us 1 more OOC game than the other Conference mates (granted, most other conference schools play either SUU or UND in the OOC). For Weber, USU and BYU are automatics (Screw the mUtes). We know there will be, at least, 1 money game, and we should see the Cats in an annual tourny of some sort, which would leave the Cats with 1 or 2 more OOC games.

Questions:
Is the Sky gonna be starting the conference season earlier or try to put more games in the alloted time frame? To me they will have to start earlier.

Will Weber lose home games because of this?

Can this help conference and team RPI?

Does the Sky lose overall exposure because the conference will play less OOC games (that would have been good this season)?

Will this help the scheduling?
 
I thought I read that the Big Sky was going to break into two divisions and stick with a 16 game conference schedule, playing all of teams in your division twice and teams in the other division once. Or something like that. Is that not the plan?
 
WSUProf said:
I thought I read that the Big Sky was going to break into two divisions and stick with a 16 game conference schedule, playing all of teams in your division twice and teams in the other division once. Or something like that. Is that not the plan?
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yeah thats what i was hearing. saving the last game of the conference schedule for your in state rival. sort of like the ACC does it. where we would play a home and home with every one in the "south" division and then we would play away for the "north" one year and home the next
 
From what I'm hearing it is going to be a full 20 game conference schedule. Last summer the commissioner, at a meeting with Alumni, said that the conference was planning on playing a full schedule of 20 games. There are conversations of doing it differently. But think of it. Wouldn't you rather play every team twice? I'd rather know that Weber won the Sky by beating Montana at home and away rather than having only played them at home. Or losing the Sky because all of our home games were against patsies and the road games were the tough teams. By playing everyone twice it makes it more balanced. Besides, right now, it isn't possible to break into two seperate divisions. There is an odd number of conference teams. If, and when, Idahlol joins again, then a divisional setup will work out better.

However, after doing some quick research, I have discovered that the NCAA will allow up to 31 regular season games. However, to get to the 31 a team has to play in a tournament that has 4 games. Most season tournys only have 3 or 2, but there are a couple of 4 game tournys. So in essence, most teams end up with 29 or 30 regular season games. Post season games played in conference tournaments and in the NCAA Tournament do not count towards the total. If a team doesn't play in a Holiday, or season tourny, then a team can only schedule 29 games.
 
I like the idea of playing everybody twice home and away.


with us having like 4 home OOC to 5 road OOC games or the other way around

2 slots are filled with Bwhy?U and USU (would like to say Utah, but we all know what happened here)
 
Based on RPI and Saragain ratings, it doesn't seem like more conference games will help us as much as I would hope. For example, we may run the table this year in BSC play and may only get 14 or 15 seed in the NCAA tourney. Would we be better off having more out-of-conference games vs. BCS conferences?
 
like the new big sky football where we could possibly play big sky teams 9-10 games out of 11 if we want to is a good thing. i could careless to see a non DI home football game and i hate 2 fbs road games.

so if we play more conf games it honestly might be better. just depends on what games you "lose". we have had a hard time getting home games and this adds more which helps.

if we play 20 big sky games and what we know now and what may or may not happen here is my guess:

big sky
1. isu
2. @isu
3. ewu
4. @ewu
5. um
6. @um
7. msu
8. @msu
9. nau
10. @nau
11. unc
12. @unc
13. psu
14. @psu
15. sac
16. @sac
17. suu
18. @suu
19. und
20. @und

ooc
21. @bracketbusters
22. @ return bracketbusters from 2011-12
23. uc irvine
24. byu
25. @usu
26. vs tournament*
27. vs tournament*
28. @ tournament*
29. non dI*
30. @ money game*

*basically everything but the starred would be set in stone for next yr if its 20 conf games.

10 home big sky
10 away big sky
7 away ooc
3 home ooc

13 home games

i forget how the 28 game schedule rule works to get the extra 3 games? can it be any tourney or did that ncaa rule say it has to be away from the continental US?

if we can get a deal with a bigger school such as a 2-for-1 maybe we could get the home game next yr then play 2 away the next 2 yrs. that could be another possible home game.
 
with the bracketbusters we get 2 home games one year then 2 away games the next year. so it might be every other year we get more home games and less home games the next overall. it will be weird if we have 20 conf games. it was only 7 years ago we played 14 conf games.
 
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