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nevadanatural

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Several teams have recently released their OOC schedule. I know we have pieced together much of it with return games by us or other teams but any idea when the complete schedule will be released? What was the release date last year?
 
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astonmartin708_rivals

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It was JUNE 13(!!!) last year. I asked Kelly about it on twitter, but she said she thought we were still trying to finalize a game or two
 
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mcane

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needs to get done. The schedule fills up like crazy in the November football/basketball overlap.
 
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cmullinsTU

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November 10th - vs Lamar
November 13th - vs ORU
November 16th-19th - Puerto Rico Tip-Off
November 25th - vs Central Arkansas
November 28th - vs UTSA
December 2nd - @ Illinois St
December 9th - vs Kansas St (in Wichita)
December 14th - Prairie View A&M
December 16th - Manhattan
December 19th - @ OSU

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goldenhurricane2

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Kind of disappointed in this years OOC schedule... especially the home portion. I know we had trouble getting teams to come play us here but geez...
 
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lawpoke87

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At this point I don't see any likely NCAA tourney teams on that schedule. Hopefully we can play a couple in PR.
 
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astonmartin708_rivals

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Very disappointed. It looks like we're betting everything that we'll do well in conference, which is less likely this year than any since we joined the AAC.
 
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Gmoney4WW

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lawpoke87 said:
At this point I don't see any likely NCAA tourney teams on that schedule. Hopefully we can play a couple in PR.
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Maybe Illinois St if they can win their conference without Wichita St or Boise if they do really well in conference. South Carolina if we get to play them in Puerto Rico. But yeah, no outright tourney team possibilities.
 
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Illinois St is now that WSU is out of the Valley
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No. That punk of a coach couldn't hold the jock strap of the dood who washes Marshall's jock strap. They could be the best program, but the Valley may be at the level it was when we left (people get romantic, but that league was dog crap the year we left).
 
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Gmoney4WW

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Yeah we were there for some of the wonder years, but it had to make a long arduous comeback from when we left. And now they get raided for Creighton and Wichita St. Now Illinois St gets to the best of the rest.
 
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I.I.

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Looks like 6 wins, two losses(Big 12) , one toss up (ILS) + the PR tournament. But the PR tournament is big.
 
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tujack

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really a disappointment this will sure not help attendance or fan interest. many did not want UALR but they would have been better than this home schedule.
 
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Gmoney4WW

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Everybody is bitching about the schedule and nobody is thinking about the return next year. OSU, Illinois St, KSU(I think). We should be home heavy next year on OOC.
 
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tujack said:
really a disappointment this will sure not help attendance or fan interest. many did not want UALR but they would have been better than this home schedule.
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Winning attracts fans. Losing to attractive teams makes young kids not want to come back. Kids are the key to future attendance. I still remember hundreds of school age kids walking out of the big time Fresno and UNLV home losses with their heads down. I suspect a win in either would have captured many of them as fans for life. We have plenty of great AAC games.
 
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astonmartin708 said:
Very disappointed. It looks like we're betting everything that we'll do well in
conference, which is less likely this year than any since we joined the AAC.
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If you are saying that the upper tier in the AAC (Wichita St., Cinn., UConn.,
SMU, Temple, Houston, and maybe CFU) are as a group, the best they have
been since we have been in the Conf., I would probably agree....If you are
saying we have a poorer team than any we have had since since joining the
conf., I totally disagree......Barring injury(s), this will probably be the most
complete team, including depth, that we have had in the AAC....If you are
saying we are improved, but not enough to move further toward the top of
the conference, we probably won't know that until we play the games....

Our home OOC schedule is weak this year.....We need to sweep it to keep
any sort of RPI...... The top six or seven in the AAC are really tough, and we
should see some real brawls in our games against them.....This could be an
entertaining season!!
 
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seniorgolfer said:
If you are saying that the upper tier in the AAC (Wichita St., Cinn., UConn.,
SMU, Temple, Houston, and maybe CFU) are as a group, the best they have
been since we have been in the Conf., I would probably agree....If you are
saying we have a poorer team than any we have had since since joining the
conf., I totally disagree......Barring injury(s), this will probably be the most
complete team, including depth, that we have had in the AAC....If you are
saying we are improved, but not enough to move further toward the top of
the conference, we probably won't know that until we play the games....

Our home OOC schedule is weak this year.....We need to sweep it to keep
any sort of RPI...... The top six or seven in the AAC are really tough, and we
should see some real brawls in our games against them.....This could be an
entertaining season!!
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Saying that the conference is better than it's ever been and this probably still isn't our best team.
 
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Gmoney4WW

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You may be right, but I thought it was more than a two game contract. Either way we'll still probably have a home heavy OOC next year.
 
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astonmartin708 said:
Meh... I'm not excited for a coach who we pay a ton of money that can only schedule well every other season.
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So you're putting this on Haith? Ignorance at its finest. We were in talks with tons of good teams and none worked out. We also are done with the UALR series, which makes things difficult to fill in the gaps as well. Next seasons Non Conference will be MUCH improved.

My message to the team? JUST WIN BABY.
 
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Sometimes winning against weaker competition helps a team's confidence more than close losses to better teams. Unless we have a "Bad loss", I wouldn't worry too much about the RPI. The conference will make up for the easier SOS in OOC play.
 
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astonmartin708_rivals

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I.I. said:
Sometimes winning against weaker competition helps a team's confidence more than close losses to better teams. Unless we have a "Bad loss", I wouldn't worry too much about the RPI. The conference will make up for the easier SOS in OOC play.
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Sometimes playing ridiculously easy non-conferences doesn't help you when it comes to conference time. See: Houston.
 
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Last Year RPI ranking for this years OOC:

November 13th - vs ORU - 293
November 16th-19th - Puerto Rico Tip-Off
November 25th - vs Central Arkansas - 311
November 28th - vs UTSA - 264
December 2nd - @ Illinois St - 33
December 9th - vs Kansas St (in Wichita) - 57
December 14th - Prairie View A&M - 307
December 16th - Manhattan - 263
December 19th - @ OSU - 40
 
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astonmartin708_rivals

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Weatherdemon said:
Last Year RPI ranking for this years OOC:

November 13th - vs ORU - 293
November 16th-19th - Puerto Rico Tip-Off
November 25th - vs Central Arkansas - 311
November 28th - vs UTSA - 264
December 2nd - @ Illinois St - 33
December 9th - vs Kansas St (in Wichita) - 57
December 14th - Prairie View A&M - 307
December 16th - Manhattan - 263
December 19th - @ OSU - 40
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Woof! Illinois State is unlikely to be that high again this year.
 
nevadanatural

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I agree on Illinois State, I believe Paris Lee is gone and they won't have two games against WSU to pump them up. So 5 games against teams 250+ and two of those 300+, not good. I thought when you played in an exempt tournament you could schedule 11 games besides the tournament and therefore play a 32 game season.
 
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lawpoke87

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K State and OSU are picked 8th and last in the Big12 based on early power rankings. I'm not sure we're going to get much boost from those games if things play out as expected.
 
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lawpoke87 said:
K State and OSU are picked 8th and last in the Big12 based on early power rankings. I'm not sure we're going to get much boost from those games if things play out as expected.
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FWIW, UT and OU were last in the B12 last year with RPIs of 157 and 171.
Tech 8th at 123 and TCU 7th at 67.
 
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ctt8410

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lawpoke87 said:
K State and OSU are picked 8th and last in the Big12 based on early power rankings. I'm not sure we're going to get much boost from those games if things play out as expected.
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That's the perfect type of team to play imo. They're very winnable games against teams that have a chance to end up on the bubble. And it's virtually impossible for a Big 12 team to end up as a bad loss.

For reference, the bottom 4 teams in the preseason Big 12 poll last year were OSU, Tech, KState, and TCU. Those teams finished 40, 124, 57, and 67 in the RPI.

And with the new changes to the team sheet, a win in Stillwater qualifies as a Quality W if they finish in the top 75.
 
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ctt8410

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It's also worth pointing out that South Carolina is being picked around 10th in the SEC and Iowa State around 9th in the Big 12. At this point, it seems pretty unlikely we'll play a top 25 caliber team before conference play.

On the plus side, they're pretty much all winnable games if we're as good as I think we are.
 
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astonmartin708_rivals

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We open the tournament against Western Michigan. I think their RPI was around 170 last season... haven't looked to see what they have coming back.
 
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