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Post by titantarheel on Aug 3, 2018 15:45:22 GMT -5
This really is as GREAT of a non conf schedule as you can ask for as a Titan fan. A+, home run, slam dunk, whatever the metaphor this is it. Nice job to Coach Davis, and presumably AD Vowels, in pulling this together.
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Post by Commissioner on Aug 3, 2018 16:14:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2018 16:45:31 GMT -5
I also really like the schedule. Games vs the teams we should be playing, the in State mid majors, plus the MAC Ohio schools. I love the traditional type teams like Temple, Butler, Xavier, Dayton. If I were to nitpick and change anything, it might be to add another home game or two or a "name" opponent at home (maybe a weaker team from a larger conference) and of course, either MSU or Michigan (on the road or neutral site)
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Post by Commissioner on Aug 3, 2018 18:55:08 GMT -5
I also really like the schedule. Games vs the teams we should be playing, the in State mid majors, plus the MAC Ohio schools. I love the traditional type teams like Temple, Butler, Xavier, Dayton. If I were to nitpick and change anything, it might be to add another home game or two or a "name" opponent at home (maybe a weaker team from a larger conference) and of course, either MSU or Michigan (on the road or neutral site) It's becoming all but impossible for mid-majors to get home games w/ P6 teams. A few years ago Green Bay and Milwaukee could get 2 for 1, then 3 for 1 series with Wisconsin. No more. We got St. John's and Mississippi State just a few years ago. No more. It was tough, but each year there would be a few P6 opponents around the Horizon. I recall less than a decade ago games like Virginia at Green Bay, Wichita State at Detroit (thanks to BracketBusters), West Virginia @ Cleveland State. Now it was front page news in the NCAA basketball world last month when Stephen F. Austin got a home game with Alabama for next year. If the Titans came up with $150,000 and offered it to Indiana along with a home and home, they'd laugh in our faces. Mid major basketball is going to be extinct in a few years, and I don't see what can be (or at least will be) done to stop that from happening. The Titans had 3, possibly 4 chances to stay in the upper echelon, but we let them go to waste. I expect now it is too late.
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Post by titanmac on Aug 4, 2018 19:16:43 GMT -5
sometimes you say the damdest things. doom and gloom. mid major ball will be around long after we are gone.
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Post by motorcitysam on Aug 5, 2018 14:37:10 GMT -5
I also really like the schedule. Games vs the teams we should be playing, the in State mid majors, plus the MAC Ohio schools. I love the traditional type teams like Temple, Butler, Xavier, Dayton. If I were to nitpick and change anything, it might be to add another home game or two or a "name" opponent at home (maybe a weaker team from a larger conference) and of course, either MSU or Michigan (on the road or neutral site) It's becoming all but impossible for mid-majors to get home games w/ P6 teams. A few years ago Green Bay and Milwaukee could get 2 for 1, then 3 for 1 series with Wisconsin. No more. We got St. John's and Mississippi State just a few years ago. No more. It was tough, but each year there would be a few P6 opponents around the Horizon. I recall less than a decade ago games like Virginia at Green Bay, Wichita State at Detroit (thanks to BracketBusters), West Virginia @ Cleveland State. Now it was front page news in the NCAA basketball world last month when Stephen F. Austin got a home game with Alabama for next year. If the Titans came up with $150,000 and offered it to Indiana along with a home and home, they'd laugh in our faces. Mid major basketball is going to be extinct in a few years, and I don't see what can be (or at least will be) done to stop that from happening. The Titans had 3, possibly 4 chances to stay in the upper echelon, but we let them go to waste. I expect now it is too late. That's a gloomy perspective, but recent trends seem to support your view. Current and proposed changes in transfer rules hit mid majors pretty hard and benefit the big schools. The changes to summer recruiting that is being discussed would seem to disadvantage mid major coaches. I am hopeful that the latest coaching hre puts the Titans back on an upward trajectory, but it will take more than wins and losses to reach the level we'd like. For now, in the immediate future, we're in a conference that has slipped, but it is also one that doesn't have the depth and talent of the HL of 2007. We can make some noise in this league, and that is what I am hoping to see. I think our non-con schedule could do a nice job of preparing us for the HL slate. Go Titans. (And go mid majors!)
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Post by Commissioner on Aug 5, 2018 15:54:45 GMT -5
It's becoming all but impossible for mid-majors to get home games w/ P6 teams. A few years ago Green Bay and Milwaukee could get 2 for 1, then 3 for 1 series with Wisconsin. No more. We got St. John's and Mississippi State just a few years ago. No more. It was tough, but each year there would be a few P6 opponents around the Horizon. I recall less than a decade ago games like Virginia at Green Bay, Wichita State at Detroit (thanks to BracketBusters), West Virginia @ Cleveland State. Now it was front page news in the NCAA basketball world last month when Stephen F. Austin got a home game with Alabama for next year. If the Titans came up with $150,000 and offered it to Indiana along with a home and home, they'd laugh in our faces. Mid major basketball is going to be extinct in a few years, and I don't see what can be (or at least will be) done to stop that from happening. The Titans had 3, possibly 4 chances to stay in the upper echelon, but we let them go to waste. I expect now it is too late. That's a gloomy perspective, but recent trends seem to support your view. Current and proposed changes in transfer rules hit mid majors pretty hard and benefit the big schools. The changes to summer recruiting that is being discussed would seem to disadvantage mid major coaches. I am hopeful that the latest coaching hre puts the Titans back on an upward trajectory, but it will take more than wins and losses to reach the level we'd like. For now, in the immediate future, we're in a conference that has slipped, but it is also one that doesn't have the depth and talent of the HL of 2007. We can make some noise in this league, and that is what I am hoping to see. I think our non-con schedule could do a nice job of preparing us for the HL slate. Go Titans. (And go mid majors!) sometimes you say the damdest things. doom and gloom. mid major ball will be around long after we are gone. Of course you're right, Mac--there will still be mid-majors. I guess what I mean is that mid-major hoops as I grew up with it--where mid-majors can play home games against high majors; mid-major conferences can get 2 or 3 NCAA bids and #8-9-10 seeds, mid-majors can compete for the occasional blue chipper who isn't their coach's son--appears to be dying. Alma and Oberlin and Denison and Kalamazoo still play college hoops, but they are not relevant in the same way they were one hundred years ago or even as late as the outbreak of WWII, when they weren't powers but they could still matter in some small way and play big schools with an actual chance of winning. I think mid-majors today are going the way that those small schools did 90 years ago. Maybe you don't see it happening, but that's what I see happening now to what we call "mid-majors." I hope I'm wrong.
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Post by Rogobob77 on Aug 6, 2018 21:23:45 GMT -5
A friend who attended the golf outing today indicated that Mike Davis communicated support for the Texas Southern model of playing big teams in road games to toughen up for success in March. He wanted Kentucky, Arizona and more on the '18-'19 schedule but couldn't work it out in time. Next year will look much different, Davis was reported to have said.
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Post by Commissioner on Aug 8, 2018 14:17:14 GMT -5
90 days until the opener at Western Michigan.
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Post by motorcitysam on Aug 8, 2018 20:34:47 GMT -5
A friend who attended the golf outing today indicated that Mike Davis communicated support for the Texas Southern model of playing big teams in road games to toughen up for success in March. He wanted Kentucky, Arizona and more on the '18-'19 schedule but couldn't work it out in time. Next year will look much different, Davis was reported to have said. I don't mind a bunch of P5 guarantee games. Make some cash, toughen up the team. I would like to see a decent amount of home games, though. Don't want to have that "every non-conference game on the road" scenario that Texas Southern has done.
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Post by motorcitysam on Aug 8, 2018 20:35:11 GMT -5
90 days until the opener at Western Michigan. Bring it on! Planning on making that road trip.
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 6, 2018 14:43:36 GMT -5
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Post by Commissioner on Sept 6, 2018 18:21:12 GMT -5
Season opener two months from today!
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 17, 2018 16:31:29 GMT -5
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Post by titantarheel on Sept 18, 2018 8:22:12 GMT -5
That's really great news. In my mind, getting these games on the schedule is nothing but a home run. Kudos to AD Vowels and Coach Davis (if he was around when these were getting scheduled) for getting these games.
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