Committee Chair on Mad Dog Radio-best answer on why no RU

[IL Lusciato]

Also don’t forgot blowing a double digit lead to Miami at their house. It wasn’t a bad loss but had we held on those last few minutes we probably get in also having a big road OOC win

Yup

 

[RU-ROCS]

First Question asked by Mad Dog and Steve Torre was Why Rutgers was not included…it was a very direct answer, that should be printed and pasted on the Coaching staffs office door! Scheduling matters a lot, winning big games in non conference matters most.


”Their Non-Conference schedule, and non-conference wins. The committee looked hard at that. They were trying to find something they could grab on to. But for non-conference, as it related to success, it was lacking”

he continued regarding Mag injury,

’” From Feb 7th on, in several games we had the chance to observe them, and how they looked down the stretch, they had a difficult time. The combination of the two, is why they were left out”

That metric is a joke used by the committee to manipulate results. For example, PSU's and Northwestern's OCC was almost as bad as RU's yet that was not counted against them. But more importantly, our overall strength of schedule was very good (40) because we play in a brutally deep league. The overall strength of schedule is all that should matter. The fact that Nevada played a a better OOC schedule is meaningless because they play in an incredibly weak conference and their overall strength of schedule (70) was almost twice as bad as RU's. NC State had a bad overall SOS of 78 (246 OCC) and still got in!

 

[rucoe89]

Swing and a miss! Lol. Thanks for playing. You get a bag of chips as a consolation prize.

I'll take the Ruffles.