PantherSigEp wrote:Sure, it's easy to lose your way out of a bid if you schedule up and lose some games that you were expected to win or don't beat those teams for a "signature win". But at least you freaking tried and attempted to prepare your team for a competitive season. Why in the world would you want to be a team who goes 25-5 but had a 200+ SOS and just sits there on Sunday scratching their heads and complaining about why the committee didn't give them a bid for beating Eastern Tennessee Christian Tech and the Carolina College for Blind Scientologists? That's not pointing fingers at anyone in particular, just a really oversimplified example.
If you won't schedule good teams, to show you can beat good teams and give yourself a fighting chance of earning a bid to the tournament, then it's pretty silly to assume you actually belong in any conversation regarding the NCAA's.
Losing all meaningful games and not playing meaningful games both won't get you in the tournament but at least with the former you helped improve the standing of the Valley and gave yourself a shot at success. But, as evidenced by a majority of the conference, it's better to have a crap schedule and kid yourself as to how mediocre you are, rather than play good competition, have middling success and then come to grips with that reality on your own. Hooray for fluff and cupcakes, right? Hooray for 11th place in the conference RPI (or lower)!
