by BirdmanBB » February 9th, 2011, 3:39 pm
Good post. As a redbird fan, I really wish Elgin would re-institute a standard as far a scheduling goes. When that was taken away, look what happened to the conference. At the very least some of our teams at the bottom might luck their way into a win over a good team.
Right now it is every man for himself and unfortunately, teams like mine are taking advantage of it by scheduling as light as possible and only worrying about the conference season. Let the better teams do the hard work and lets try and beat them in conference. then we schedule light because we know we are down so that we can get some wins in the non-con to pad the resume for job security (something that all coaches in the valley probably don't take issue with = save your job when your team sucks)
I believe Elgin pulled the standard because teams were complaining. Might have had something to do with the amount of home games your school gets in the non-con or the revenue from it. Might have had something to do with coaches and their job security when their teams are going to have a down year. From a competitive basketball standpoint, we were better when we had it. Now it seems that after we dropped this, other conferences like the A10, CAA and Horizon are following that formula and having great success right now.
He may not be able to try that ever again, but I am glad he made non-con SOS a tiebreaker for in conference. Hopefully teams will come around because of it. BTW, I was told that this rule was made specifically because of Redbird scheduling.
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BirdmanBB on February 9th, 2011, 3:49 pm, edited 2 times in total.
O.K., I get it and understand the reference. I'm guilty of being too sensitive to the authenticity of history. Actually, it was quite funny, PeKaph.
