2013-14 MU Schedule

UW game will likely be early afternoon....they host a hockey series that same weekend.

My initial thoughts...


Obviously Ohio State, Arizona State, New Mexico, and Wisconsin are all solid adds to the schedule. Southern loses a lot but should still compete for the SWAC title. Both Grambling and New Hampshire are questionable adds at best.

I really hope ASU and Creighton are on the opposite side of the bracket from us. I'd like to see George Washington or Charleston in our Wooden opener, and hopefully Miami and San Diego State in the other two games. Admittedly, Creighton would be cool for early league bragging rights, but I figure we'll see them twice this season anyway.

What I really want is a home-and-home with Notre Dame. Based on this we have 3 open dates left. I have a feeling if ND was going to be on the schedule, we'd know about it by now. With that in mind, I'm just going to hope for top-200 RPI teams with the last 3 slots. We will likely have at least 3-4 top-50 teams in this, and a good chance at 6 top-100 teams. Fill the last 3 with buy games against teams in the 100-200 range. You get 16 home dates and only 2 real dogs. That'd make for a solid schedule.

I don't understand your comment about Grambling and New Hampshire being "questionable adds at best." They are buy games. Nothing wrong with those at all.

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Originally Posted by MUMac

I don't understand your comment about Grambling and New Hampshire being "questionable adds at best." They are buy games. Nothing wrong with those at all.

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Questionable because of likely RPI drag. As long as there aren't too many of those we should be alright.

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Originally Posted by kneelb4zerg

Questionable because of likely RPI drag. As long as there aren't too many of those we should be alright.

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Looking at the schedule as we know it, they will likely be the lowest RPI teams MU has. That is why I questioned it. Two bad RPI teams on the schedule is fine. "questionable adds at best" seems awfully strong and I do not agree with that comment. MU needs the home games and will have buy games. Some buy games/teams will be RPI drags. Everyone has them and MU always has as well.

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Originally Posted by MUMac

Looking at the schedule as we know it, they will likely be the lowest RPI teams MU has. That is why I questioned it. Two bad RPI teams on the schedule is fine. "questionable adds at best" seems awfully strong and I do not agree with that comment. MU needs the home games and will have buy games. Some buy games/teams will be RPI drags. Everyone has them and MU always has as well.

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But we don't know who the rest of the buy games will be yet.

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Originally Posted by kneelb4zerg

But we don't know who the rest of the buy games will be yet.

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So let's get our bitching in early then, I guess. :rolleyes:

We know the majority of the schedule. I think it's a damn impressive nonconference schedule. I see no reason for the comment I cited.

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Originally Posted by MUMac

So let's get our bitching in early then, I guess. :rolleyes:

We know the majority of the schedule. I think it's a damn impressive nonconference schedule. I see no reason for the comment I cited.

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You can have buy games that aren't RPI 300+ games. Those are questionable games. I'm not even the one who made the comment but I would prefer zero of those type of games. I'm sure that is easier said than done.

All buy games are not all the same. Cost and dates come into play.

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Originally Posted by MUMac

Looking at the schedule as we know it, they will likely be the lowest RPI teams MU has. That is why I questioned it. Two bad RPI teams on the schedule is fine. "questionable adds at best" seems awfully strong and I do not agree with that comment. MU needs the home games and will have buy games. Some buy games/teams will be RPI drags. Everyone has them and MU always has as well.

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With our conference taking a step down, it's going to be harder to maintain our RPI. You need wins, but wins against teams ranked 150-250 at home are just about as easy to come by as games against sub-250 teams, but when it comes to RPI drags, are far less damaging.

I realize it's not destructive, but when it comes to RPI, every non-con game matters. Adding teams that will likely be below 250 in the RPI are games that have questionable value because win or lose, they will drop your RPI. I commend the work Broeker and company have done, and overall I'm pleased with what we've seen so far, but if the 3 remaining games are against teams of that ilk, we will almost certainly see our seed suffer because of it unless we have 4 or fewer total losses.