Just like you declare the opposite. No, I don’t have supporting documentation and neither do you. It’s all opinions on this board. However, as an AAU coach, I always challenged my teams with difficult schedules and found my teams improved much more than playing garbage teams. I found that playing weaker teams lowered a teams expectations and gave them a false sense of how good they were. Some coaches challenge their teams like MSU and Illinois every year and some avoid competition as much as possible like Pike and some others (John Thompson used to do it in the old days).
It’s no secret that Pike is afraid of tough OOC competition and prefers to pad his record with cupcakes. IMO, you play a weak schedule when you have very young players for them to gain confidence or when you have a lot of newcomers. A veteran team like ours should be in holiday tournaments challenging themselves to get better not struggling against last place patriot league teams at home….and it’s ok to do both but we don’t.
