(03-08-2017 09:32 AM)kreed5120 Wrote:  

(03-08-2017 09:15 AM)OUVan Wrote:  There are plenty of other consistently good mids that will do home-and-homes though. The MAC's biggest problem with scheduling IMO is not the lack of P5s on the schedule. It's too many 200+ RPI/KenPom/Sagarin teams on the schedule. Here is a breakdown of each team's 200+ schedule with the non-D1 games in parentheses.

Akron - 6 (1)
Ohio - 7 (1)
Buffalo - 4 (2)
Kent St - 6 (1)
BGSU - 6 (1)
Miami - 5 (1)
Ball St - 9 (1)
WMU - 5 (1)
Toledo - 3 (1)
NIU - 8 (3)
EMU - 2 (4)
CMU - 6 (2)

Every team except Toledo had 6 crap games on their schedules and the conference lost 15 of those games. I love Toledo's schedule although I would like to see one or two neutral court (tournament) games against P5 teams. They don't necessarily help you in the mathematics but they do add eye candy for the talking heads.

I definitely agree this is probably the most obtainable way for MAC teams to improve their schedule without putting themselves at a huge disadvantage. I'd be all for the MAC improving the quality of its buy games (buy more Horizon and OVC teams and fewer SWAC/MEAC teams) and agree to more home and homes with quality mid-majors. In fact, since they took bracketbusters away from us it would be great if every year in mid-February some sort of scheduling alignment was agreed to between the MAC and CAA where our #1 team would play their #1 team and so on.

Can't agree with this more. As noted above, BSU's non-con schedule has been largely crap through the Whitford era (and really during the Taylor era before it). Quantity of wins over quality in full effect, IMHO. Unfortunately, were bought out of a Utah home game in '15-16, and got St. Louis and Alabama on down years this year, but even still, there's way too much IU-Kokomo and the like.