Pernetti Wants Better OOC Scheduling

[MCMLXXX]

Excluding Memphis, out of a possible 156 non-conference games, the other 12 teams in the AAC this season scheduled 45 games (28.8%) against sub-300 KenPom teams or non-Division I opponents. The primary offenders were Tulsa (six), UAB, South Florida, Tulane, East Carolina and Rice (five apiece).

AAC commissioner Tim Pernetti says it has March Madness problem

Edited yesterday at 05:00 PM by MCMLXXX

[MeanGreenTexan]

UAB in the same boat as us (no one wants to play them).   
SouthFL likely in the same boat pre-coach Abdur Rahim's passing.   

Tulsa/Tulane/ECU/Rice... just looking for wins to pad schedule.

Wonder what Pernetti's solution is?   In this article, he just pointed at the "guidance that's already in place"... OK, well, that's obviously not working as it should.

[keith]

With the assumption that other conferences want to improve their OOC scheduling as well, isn't it going to be hard for teams like Tulsa (285), Charlotte (262) or UTSA (200) to improve their strength of schedule?  Other teams looking to improve theirs won't want to play 200+ Kenpom teams.  It becomes a hole you can't dig yourself out of.  

[GMG_Dallas]

2 hours ago, keith said:

With the assumption that other conferences want to improve their OOC scheduling as well, isn't it going to be hard for teams like Tulsa (285), Charlotte (262) or UTSA (200) to improve their strength of schedule?  Other teams looking to improve theirs won't want to play 200+ Kenpom teams.  It becomes a hole you can't dig yourself out of.  

Each of those schools have at least 2 losses to teams in the 200+ range of NET rankings with Tulsa having 4 such losses and not a single one of those three has a winning OOC record. With the weak OOC schedules most of our conference is playing, there's no reason any team should have a losing record. To your point, if Tulsa, Charlotte, and UTSA would just handle business in OOC, they could boost their NET rankings  a good deal and maybe attract decent early season tournament invites for the following season. As it is, any team that loses to a UTSA, Tulsa, Charlotte, or even Rice immediately loses any credibility.

[BigWillie]

1 hour ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Each of those schools have at least 2 losses to teams in the 200+ range of NET rankings with Tulsa having 4 such losses and not a single one of those three has a winning OOC record. With the weak OOC schedules most of our conference is playing, there's no reason any team should have a losing record. To your point, if Tulsa, Charlotte, and UTSA would just handle business in OOC, they could boost their NET rankings  a good deal and maybe attract decent early season tournament invites for the following season. As it is, any team that loses to a UTSA, Tulsa, Charlotte, or even Rice immediately loses any credibility.

[GMG_Dallas]

54 minutes ago, BigWillie said:

Yup... it is what it is. You can't lose to the 213th ranked team at home and expect to be taken seriously by national media.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

26 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Yup... it is what it is. You can't lose to the 213th ranked team at home and expect to be taken seriously by national media.

Unless you're a brand. Because you damn well know they'll sweep so as long as you redeem yourself. 

[BigWillie]

5 hours ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Yup... it is what it is. You can't lose to the 213th ranked team at home and expect to be taken seriously by national media.

Especially when you have almost 0 room for error to get an at-large. It really does suck.

[dml7007]

Need to schedule a saturday Mountain West vs AAC, and you play 1 v 1, 2 v 2......... This way you will end up with some potential Q1 wins.  

[MrAlien]

The mountain west is the conference the AAC should be looking at, they are almost always a 3-4 bid conference.

[Ross Hodgeson]

24 minutes ago, MrAlien said:

The mountain west is the conference the AAC should be looking at, they are almost always a 3-4 bid conference.

Agreed and we don't play them often.  Last game I can recall was Boise State on the road.

[GMG_Dallas]

2 hours ago, dml7007 said:

Need to schedule a saturday Mountain West vs AAC, and you play 1 v 1, 2 v 2......... This way you will end up with some potential Q1 wins.  

 

1 hour ago, MrAlien said:

The mountain west is the conference the AAC should be looking at, they are almost always a 3-4 bid conference.

Or, here me out, we do everything possible to get into the new PAC where most of those 3-4 MWC bids will be playing starting next year. Quad 1 and 2 opponents almost every game.