(04-29-2014 03:13 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  i am hoping we get more quality home games this coming year. Having 20 conference games helps. I will be the first to admit our basketball facility is old and probably one of the worst 3-4 in the Sun Belt. We apparently have big trouble getting any decent D1 school to come here and that is why we play non-D1 games. Last year we had 4 which is way too many.

A scheduling arrangement with some other league would definitely help.

It is clear here at Ga. Southern football is #1 and I would put baseball as #2. We have a long way to go in basketball.

Yea, lets work with the other conferences.

16 Conference Games (8 home, 8 road)
1 Non D1 team (1 home)
4 Alliance Games versus other 12 team conferences (2 home, 2 road)
One tournament (start one if you don't have one yet - pack it with Presbyterian and St Francis if you have to 2-games at home)
2 games against your nearest rivals not already scheduled (1 home, 1 road)
3 High profile teams (schedule them 2 for 1 if you have to - 1 home 2 road)
2-4 teams at your discretion. Not that hard.

Another thing is that for a tournament you can also work with your big name state schools too. Or schedule a doubleheader. For example, USA every couple of years will host a double header with Alabama and Auburn. USA will play of them and the SEC team not playing USA will play someone else in USA's arena. Get creative. But hosting a tournament kind of means that you have to have an arena fit to host a tournament.

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For USA, this is what the schedule could look like.

We'd get ****** alliance games because we stunk last year. So OOC might look like this: Bowling Green (H - Alliance), Tulane (H - Alliance), Jacksonville State (A - Alliance), Samford (A-Alliance), USM (H-Longstanding Rival), UAB (A-Longstanding Rival), Spring Hill College (H - non D1), Jacksonville (H - Open), Florida State (A - Prominent 2 for 1), Texas (A - Prominent 2 for 1), Georgia (H - Prominent 2 for 1), 2 H for tournament (could be crummy teams, might get Alabama or Auburn).

Thats a 30 game schedule with plenty of home interest, opportunties to upset teams if were in a reach year, etc.

Instead we get a crap sandwich of a schedule.