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Post by refrigeratorraider on Aug 24, 2023 13:14:31 GMT -5
Disappointing to see 2 non-D1 opponents in the back half of the non-conference schedule. I wouldn't mind if one of them served as the season-opening game. Fans would have excitement for the first game regardless and it would be a good tune-up for the team before facing D1 competition. The rest of the non-conference is very solid.
The Muskingum game is the worst though. Not only are they D3 (non-athletic scholarship), but they had a total of 1 win last season.
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Post by Retired Coach on Aug 24, 2023 20:58:05 GMT -5
Disappointing to see 2 non-D1 opponents in the back half of the non-conference schedule. I wouldn't mind if one of them served as the season-opening game. Fans would have excitement for the first game regardless and it would be a good tune-up for the team before facing D1 competition. The rest of the non-conference is very solid. The Muskingum game is the worst though. Not only are they D3 (non-athletic scholarship), but they had a total of 1 win last season. 2 non-D1 games is criminal when you have our roster. If Tanner is eligible, this team has a shot to do some damage in the NCAAs. That only happens if we get a good seed and that only happens if we play and have success against a good OOC schedule. We should have played another money game on the road vs a quad 1/2 team instead of playing one of these bs games. |
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Post by keithfromxenia on Aug 24, 2023 22:22:24 GMT -5
People wonder why I am critical of this program and no better example than this. We have to schedule only 5 home games and 40% of them, 2 of the 5, are not even legitimate games! They are exhibition games. Season ticket holders deserve better than this.
There is no way you can convince me that this is anything but deliberate weakening of our schedule. In a season where everyone seems to think we can really accomplish something, instead of trying to strengthen our sos we schedule two games that do not even count.
There needs to be a change of philosophy in Fairborn and a commitment to build a stronger schedule each year but I am highly doubtful it will happen.
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Post by Big D on Aug 24, 2023 22:57:38 GMT -5
I understand everyone’s frustration with the 2 non D1 games on the schedule and I am not happy about them either. The truth is we have a potential really good team that is now in a low major conference and it is hard to sign contracts with good teams when you are in that situation. Every school is trying to put together a schedule that will help build their resume for the NCAAs. Playing us does not do that for other teams. We aren’t going to help anyone’s SOS being a member of the HL. The fact that we could be really good this year makes it worse in that no one wants to risk losing to us because it will doubly hurt them because it will be looked at as a bad loss for them and hurt their SOS.
I don’t have the answer for this problem besides that we just need to keep winning games and building our own name/resume so that
1. We are not looked upon as a potential bad loss
2. We can get the hell out of this god forsaken conference
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Post by RaiderFan on Aug 25, 2023 17:07:31 GMT -5
I’m not happy with those 2 games either but one thing to consider in our staffs defense is the HL still hasn’t replaced UIC. We should have two more league games that we have to fill with out of conference opponents. The horizon league needs to get their shit together and find a new member.
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Post by willgrahamsbanked3 on Aug 26, 2023 8:33:32 GMT -5
6 games in 6 different cities in a 15 day stretch. That's a tough one, but the rest of the schedule is pretty nice travel-wise afterwards
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Post by nomeara on Aug 26, 2023 10:12:41 GMT -5
As much as I hate seeing 2 non D1 opponents on the schedule, 22 conference games each year sounds even worse. Tough situation at the moment. All the Raiders can do is make a statement early and try to keep winning.
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Post by Big D on Aug 26, 2023 11:03:10 GMT -5
The biggest issue we have with scheduling OOC games comes down to being in the HL. As I already wrote above, the HL’s status as a low major makes it harder to get decent home/home contracts with other good teams. When LeCrone retired, instead of hiring a competent commissioner, we stayed in house and promoted someone who was fired by the NCAA for her incompetence. That is still mind boggling to me. The problem with this is that she continued LeCrone’s lazy approach to being a commissioner. Instead of trying to incentivize our programs to schedule better teams, she does nothing. In fact, it was their suggestion to schedule non-D1 games in the first place. Other conferences scheduled conference challenges with other conferences to help ease the burden of scheduling. The HL announced such a challenge with the SL several years ago but it never came to fruition. There is no good reason why the HL doesn’t get together with the MVC, MAC, SL, and OVC to come to some sort of scheduling agreement to help each other out with scheduling. All our conferences struggle to put together a full schedule of D1 games. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize it makes sense to try to come together to help ease that burden. The only thing stopping it is having a commissioner that wants to earn her salary.
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Post by raidergrad98 on Sept 6, 2023 12:50:56 GMT -5
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Post by Former Mascot on Oct 28, 2023 8:39:36 GMT -5
Since we have no announced exhibition games, I assume we are participating in 2 closed scrimmages with other D1 teams. Anyone hear who and when we are playing those games?
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Post by beatud on Oct 28, 2023 8:53:25 GMT -5
Since we have no announced exhibition games, I assume we are participating in 2 closed scrimmages with other D1 teams. Anyone hear who and when we are playing those games?
We played BGSU for the first game and were scheduled to play Ball State for the second.
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Post by raider85 on Oct 30, 2023 12:23:11 GMT -5
One problem I have with the schedule is the lack of Saturday games. If I am reading the schedule right, there is not a Saturday night until January 20TH, and the only Friday night game I see until then is Muskegon, which is not worth even going to. I don't know how much control Wright State has over the schedule, but Saturday games draw the best crowds, and for me, I can't make weekday games.
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Post by refrigeratorraider on Oct 30, 2023 13:39:52 GMT -5
One problem I have with the schedule is the lack of Saturday games. If I am reading the schedule right, there is not a Saturday night until January 20TH, and the only Friday night game I see until then is Muskegon, which is not worth even going to. I don't know how much control Wright State has over the schedule, but Saturday games draw the best crowds, and for me, I can't make weekday games. That Muskingum game is actually a Friday afternoon game (1:00 PM). I'm not sure if there is some marketing idea with a Friday afternoon game or if they just want to give the athletes more of an opportunity to get home for Christmas. The game at Green Bay the following Friday is also a 1:00 PM game. |
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Post by raider85 on Oct 30, 2023 14:25:20 GMT -5
1:00 games on a weekday, is even worse. Can't imagine these will draw very well.
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Post by gerb on Oct 30, 2023 21:27:26 GMT -5
One problem I have with the schedule is the lack of Saturday games. If I am reading the schedule right, there is not a Saturday night until January 20TH, and the only Friday night game I see until then is Muskegon, which is not worth even going to. I don't know how much control Wright State has over the schedule, but Saturday games draw the best crowds, and for me, I can't make weekday games. That Muskingum game is actually a Friday afternoon game (1:00 PM). I'm not sure if there is some marketing idea with a Friday afternoon game or if they just want to give the athletes more of an opportunity to get home for Christmas. The game at Green Bay the following Friday is also a 1:00 PM game. Oh no. Is UWGB doing one of those deals where the whole crowd is made up of elementary school kids? |
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