There are 3 teams left who are undefeated in conference play. 2 of them go head to head Saturday when UNT travels to UTSA.

(01-10-2019 09:30 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  Congrats, FAU.

Monarch faithful are a bit shellshocked at the moment.

You may not have gotten the win today but you’re still a classy and respectable group of fans. Much better than the USM fans who are obsessed with talking smack about FAU.

Maybe we need to start a FAU IS FOR REAL thread.

(01-10-2019 10:33 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 09:30 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  Congrats, FAU.

Monarch faithful are a bit shellshocked at the moment.

Thanks,

Kinda unusual to see us at 11-5. I thought with the start of the conference play we would quickly drop down.

I was worried that the injuries would slow us down, but the Dusty May hire proves our AD cares about basketball, as well as football. He can flat out coach.

(01-10-2019 11:56 PM)Seminowl Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 10:33 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 09:30 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  Congrats, FAU.

Monarch faithful are a bit shellshocked at the moment.

Thanks,

Kinda unusual to see us at 11-5. I thought with the start of the conference play we would quickly drop down.

I was worried that the injuries would slow us down, but the Dusty May hire proves our AD cares about basketball, as well as football. He can flat out coach.

Well, the record supports that assumption.

(01-10-2019 10:50 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says now we have snow coming back to Charlotte

In South Florida "snow" has a different definition and it was a cause of a war down here in the 1980's.

(01-10-2019 04:59 PM)usm99 Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 04:10 PM)cmett003 Wrote:  Anyone want to guess Over/Under on FAU announced home crowd: 982

Actual butts in seats for the USM game will be similar even though the "tickets distributed/sold aka announced attendance" will be in the low 2K

I wasn't too far off with my projection. "Announced" attendance was 1987 but for the few who were there or watched it on ESPN+ you could easily tell actual attendance was half of that at best.

Our offense is horrendous.

(01-10-2019 11:49 PM)Seminowl Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 09:30 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  Congrats, FAU.

Monarch faithful are a bit shellshocked at the moment.

You may not have gotten the win today but you’re still a classy and respectable group of fans. Much better than the USM fans who are obsessed with telling the truth about FAU.

Fixed

(01-10-2019 11:55 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Maybe we need to start a FAU IS FOR REAL thread.

Win over ODU, win AT Illinios. I'd say so.

(01-10-2019 11:55 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Maybe we need to start a FAU IS FOR REAL thread.

If they keep playing like they did last night then, yes. They’re well coached played good D shutting down one of our main scorers and made their shots. For a while it seemed they couldn’t miss, they slowed down a bit and we were able to close the gap capitalizing on some steals but unlike WKU they held in the end when it mattered. We made some mistakes and Caver was super cold from beyond the arc but hats off to the Owls. I do like the progression we’re seeing from our underclassman though.

(01-11-2019 07:33 AM)FAU Connoisseur Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 10:50 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says now we have snow coming back to Charlotte

In South Florida "snow" has a different definition and it was a cause of a war down here in the 1980's.

I hope your current coaches stick to water skiing

(01-11-2019 07:35 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 07:33 AM)FAU Connoisseur Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 10:50 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says now we have snow coming back to Charlotte

In South Florida "snow" has a different definition and it was a cause of a war down here in the 1980's.

I hope your current coaches stick to water skiing

clt asks if your coach can fit in a standard rowboat?

(01-12-2019 07:03 AM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt asks if your coach can fit in a standard rowboat?

NO. He can't fit in a rowboat.

(01-09-2019 10:26 AM)herdfan129 Wrote:  I have to say that so far I like this scheduling format. Pretty cool to play everyone in the conference at least once. I also like the thought of quadrants based on W-L record.

To end the season our top teams are going to get more opportunities for Quadrant 1 and 2 wins which is huge.

I like the idea of the pods but I don't like it in our current form.

I have two problems with the set up as it currently is.

#1 it doesn't maintain geographic rivalries. MTSU is our best geographic rival and we no longer get a home and home with them (unless we're in the same pod).

#2 Depending on which teams you get at home or on the road the scheduling can be VERY unfair.

Home court advantage is HUGE in college basketball. There is a REASON that P5 teams don't play us at our place. That reason is that they know there is a MUCH better chance that they will lose. So without a home and home situation I don't think it is an equitable method to name a regular season champion. Another way to look at it is this... if all I want is road games then I don't need a conference. WKU can get road games against P5 teams no problem. The whole point of being in a conference is that you get home games back.

My proposed fix would be this... add two non-football playing schools for 16 total teams and break it down even further.

You would have four geographic pods and you would play everybody in that pod home and home. That would allow for close geographic rivalries and alleviate concern #1. Then you would break into two 8-team divisions based on some measure (my preference would be NET standing). The top 2 teams from each geographic pod would go to the higher division and the bottom 2 teams from each geographic pod would go to the lower division. You would then play home and home against every team in your division (except the one that you already played home and home in your pod). That gives you a total of 18 conference games.

I would do a 12 team conference tournament with all 8 teams from the top division going and the top 4 teams from the bottom division.

This format preserves geographic rivalries and protects the top teams from playing from playing too many games against the bottom while ensuring that everybody gets a fair shot at the championship.

(01-12-2019 09:51 AM)Hilltopper2K Wrote:  

(01-09-2019 10:26 AM)herdfan129 Wrote:  I have to say that so far I like this scheduling format. Pretty cool to play everyone in the conference at least once. I also like the thought of quadrants based on W-L record.

To end the season our top teams are going to get more opportunities for Quadrant 1 and 2 wins which is huge.

I like the idea of the pods but I don't like it in our current form.

I have two problems with the set up as it currently is.

#1 it doesn't maintain geographic rivalries. MTSU is our best geographic rival and we no longer get a home and home with them (unless we're in the same pod).

#2 Depending on which teams you get at home or on the road the scheduling can be VERY unfair.

Home court advantage is HUGE in college basketball. There is a REASON that P5 teams don't play us at our place. That reason is that they know there is a MUCH better chance that they will lose. So without a home and home situation I don't think it is an equitable method to name a regular season champion. Another way to look at it is this... if all I want is road games then I don't need a conference. WKU can get road games against P5 teams no problem. The whole point of being in a conference is that you get home games back.

My proposed fix would be this... add two non-football playing schools for 16 total teams and break it down even further.

You would have four geographic pods and you would play everybody in that pod home and home. That would allow for close geographic rivalries and alleviate concern #1. Then you would break into two 8-team divisions based on some measure (my preference would be NET standing). The top 2 teams from each geographic pod would go to the higher division and the bottom 2 teams from each geographic pod would go to the lower division. You would then play home and home against every team in your division (except the one that you already played home and home in your pod). That gives you a total of 18 conference games.

I would do a 12 team conference tournament with all 8 teams from the top division going and the top 4 teams from the bottom division.

This format preserves geographic rivalries and protects the top teams from playing from playing too many games against the bottom while ensuring that everybody gets a fair shot at the championship.

That would actually be awesome (if we are going to seriously stay as the current CUSA).

Only problem is I'm not sure there are two teams worth adding. The only ones worth adding most likely wouldn't come. So what two teams would you suggest?

(01-12-2019 02:23 PM)herdfan129 Wrote:  Only problem is I'm not sure there are two teams worth adding. The only ones worth adding most likely wouldn't come. So what two teams would you suggest?

If you're going for the best quality adds I would go for Belmont and Texas Arlington. Both are usually at or near the top of their conferences. Both are in large metro areas. Both are geographically compatible.

But that is not actually my preference. As a knee jerk reaction this wouldn't be as popular, but hear me out. I think I might add Texas Arlington and then either Arkansas Little Rock (they won an NCAA tournament game as recently as 2016) or The University of New Orleans (an interesting destination for travel and would be smack in the middle of their geographic pod). If you add some combination of those the pods break out really nicely into tight groups that could travel to each other. And you could argue that adding lesser teams doesn't really hurt us because if they suck they will end up in the lower division anyway.

It would look something like this:

POD 1:
North Texas
UTA
UTSA
UTEP

POD 2:
RICE
USM
La Tech
UALR / UNO

POD 3:
MARSHALL
WKU
MTSU
UAB

POD 4:
ODU
Charlotte
FIU
FAU


If you go with Belmont insead of UALR / UNO then you get a better team but the pods don't break out as cleanly.

Anyway, that's how I'd do it.

Belmont and UT-Arlington? Yuck!

(01-12-2019 07:03 AM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 07:35 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 07:33 AM)FAU Connoisseur Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 10:50 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says now we have snow coming back to Charlotte

In South Florida "snow" has a different definition and it was a cause of a war down here in the 1980's.

I hope your current coaches stick to water skiing

clt asks if your coach can fit in a standard rowboat?

That's in very poor taste. The guy is fighting cancer.

(01-13-2019 02:18 AM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  

(01-12-2019 07:03 AM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 07:35 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 07:33 AM)FAU Connoisseur Wrote:  

(01-10-2019 10:50 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says now we have snow coming back to Charlotte

In South Florida "snow" has a different definition and it was a cause of a war down here in the 1980's.

I hope your current coaches stick to water skiing

clt asks if your coach can fit in a standard rowboat?

That's in very poor taste. The guy is fighting cancer.

clt says it is a “the office” reference. No ill will intended.