Perhaps. But the team needs to start from scratch after that moron Donigan ran them into the ground. At least all the games are driving distance.
I don’t understand why “starting from scratch” necessarily includes playing seven of 11 OOC games on the road, especially since it is a mediocre schedule.
That would make sense with an upscale schedule – – this is watered down schedule.
I am not missing the point by any stretch of the imagination. Even basketball in the Littlepaige years could get favorable home/away deals with smaller conference schools. The same with the worst football years. This is the first schedule I’ve seen in any sport where there was such an unfavorable home/away balance with Schools from lesser conferences.
I’m sorry, you are missing the point. Football and basketball have been just as low in the respect department for extended periods. Yet they always were able to have the majority of games with teams from lesser conferences at home. They could always leverage their position in a stronger conference notwithstanding the lack of respect for the program itself. You keep repeating without identifying any fundamental difference between this program’s position and the position that the football and basketball teams have held.
We seem to only play Seton Hall in men’s hoops. It’s too bad, because it is local rivalry and they are pretty bad in Olympic sports.
SHU knows RU would kick their asses if we played them in soccer. I'd like to play them every year in baseball personally. They aren't a bad team in baseball.
Maybe it is because they share the field with the womens team and 8 out of their 9 OOC games are home.
I have no idea how locked in this schedule was before he arrived, but if it was his responsibility, I would think one of the first orders would have been to get a manageable schedule, with as many home dates as possible, while the team builds. It seems to me that the higher the percentage of your games against your mediocre opponents on the road, the higher percentage of losses to mediocre opponents you can expect to suffer. Other posters talked about the negative perception of the program. The last thing they need is a competitive disadvantage against lesser conference programs where losses would further undermine the program’s perception. RU has had many programs in both the revenue and the Olympic sports go through periods of negative perception. I have never seen any sport, men’s or women’s, had it result in a schedule like this.
Why is it tough to schedule? Is it due to lack of conference teams to fill most of slate?
