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Post by Black PantherU on Mar 1, 2023 21:47:49 GMT -5
I don't know how the conference can force any of us to do it. The A-10 has a scheduling guideline that forces their member schools to have a specific OOC NET average. If member school miss that number in any 2 out of 3 seasons then the conference takes their share of NCAA tournament money and TV contract money until they get back into compliance. The HL could very easily do the same or make a member school ineligible for the conference post season tournament. Those are 2 very easy punishments that they can enforce. The A-10 has done that to force the conference to get better. The quote makes it sound like they're forcing buy games specifically, doesn't that make it so HL teams will be taking more games with the deck stacked against them? I'm not very good at analyzing scheduling and its effects on the conference as a whole. If you could go more in depth I'd appreciate it. |
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Post by beatud on Mar 1, 2023 21:56:36 GMT -5
The A-10 has a scheduling guideline that forces their member schools to have a specific OOC NET average. If member school miss that number in any 2 out of 3 seasons then the conference takes their share of NCAA tournament money and TV contract money until they get back into compliance. The HL could very easily do the same or make a member school ineligible for the conference post season tournament. Those are 2 very easy punishments that they can enforce. The A-10 has done that to force the conference to get better. The quote makes it sound like they're forcing buy games specifically, doesn't that make it so HL teams will be taking more games with the deck stacked against them? I'm not very good at analyzing scheduling and its effects on the conference as a whole. If you could go more in depth I'd appreciate it. Unless there's something I'm missing, I can't see why the league would care if individual schools are making money from buy games. The fact that they specify quad 1/2 makes me think that it is about raising the level of competition (similar to the A-10). The Horizon is supposedly trying to increase its NET rankings, so this is probably one way of doing that.
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Post by Big D on Mar 1, 2023 22:38:32 GMT -5
The A-10 has a scheduling guideline that forces their member schools to have a specific OOC NET average. If member school miss that number in any 2 out of 3 seasons then the conference takes their share of NCAA tournament money and TV contract money until they get back into compliance. The HL could very easily do the same or make a member school ineligible for the conference post season tournament. Those are 2 very easy punishments that they can enforce. The A-10 has done that to force the conference to get better. The quote makes it sound like they're forcing buy games specifically, doesn't that make it so HL teams will be taking more games with the deck stacked against them? I'm not very good at analyzing scheduling and its effects on the conference as a whole. If you could go more in depth I'd appreciate it. The HL wants to get out of the bottom 1/3 of conferences we have been stuck at for several years now. They finally figured out that the only 2 ways of doing that is winning more games and scheduling better. The conference can’t mandate you win more games, but they can mandate you schedule better. The goal from what I hear is to get schools to stop scheduling D2/D3/NAIA buy games at home and to replace those games with road Q1/Q2 games. Revenue wise, it should be a wash for most schools in comparison. You’ll make as much money from being bought as you would have gotten from having a home gave vs a non-D1 team. Scheduling wise, playing non D1 teams doesn’t help our conference’s NET. Playing (even if you lose) Q1/Q2 teams helps our conference’s NET. I am all for the HL forcing our members to play a better schedule. I’ve been advocating that for over a decade. I’m not a fan of mandating having everyone accepting x number of buy games. I would prefer that they force teams to all schedule games knowing their average OOC SOS hit a specific number. If you can put together a good enough OOC schedule to make it beneficial for your school and the conference it shouldn’t matter how many buy games you play. Mandating x number of games be buy games just makes the conference look even more like a low major than we actually are. It basically says our conference is full of a bunch of low level whores that are up for sale. You would never see a respectable mid-major conference do that, but we all know the HL is no longer a respectable mid-major conference. |
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Post by raiders93 on Mar 2, 2023 9:56:10 GMT -5
D, my thoughts were similar to yours if it is true that these would have to be buy games with respect to the optics. I think that a schedule mandate and the league being open to scheduling alterations are both potentially good initiatives to save the sinking ship that is the HL. Albeit 10 years too late.
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Post by wsuraider09 on Mar 14, 2023 17:45:37 GMT -5
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Post by Hoops Junkie on Mar 15, 2023 20:47:57 GMT -5
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Post by BasketBallJones on Mar 20, 2023 19:54:04 GMT -5
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Post by raiders93 on Mar 20, 2023 21:10:03 GMT -5
You went 14-19. STFU
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Post by jumbojimbo on Mar 21, 2023 7:36:27 GMT -5
Both Davises are revealed to be selfish jerks. In other news water is wet.
It's pathetic. We all saw how the father spent his son's freshman and sophomore year sacrificing the team just so his son could score. We all saw them lose games they could have won just so that Antoine would get his points.
Then we saw the team spend his junior year padding his assist stats to build his NBA resume. We saw him pass up layups just so he could pass the ball and get an assist. It was clear it was intentional from both the player and the coach.
The only thing left was showcasing his NBA 3 point range and his circus shot ability. His senior year wasn't enough to get him to the NBA so the Titans had to sacrifice his covid year too. Three things that were never demonstrated were his ability to be a true team player, his talent as a team leader and that he was a winner.
Maybe they did what they had to do to give him his longshot shot at the NBA. And maybe it's just too bad for the other players and the Titan program. We'll see what the new coach can do.
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Post by Nutt House on Mar 21, 2023 20:27:54 GMT -5
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Post by BasketBallJones on Mar 22, 2023 19:51:24 GMT -5
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Post by wsuraider09 on Mar 24, 2023 8:56:33 GMT -5
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Post by wsuraider09 on Mar 29, 2023 19:57:25 GMT -5
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Post by refrigeratorraider on Mar 31, 2023 9:24:50 GMT -5
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Post by raider62 on Mar 31, 2023 12:47:54 GMT -5
Antoine Davis wins the men's 3-point contest
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