LSU another weak non-conference only 1 ranked team, posted since some are saying our schedule is so weak not..

[Dak1219]

I think winning sells anywhere no matter who you are beating especially after the number gets in double digits and the media and coaches are ranking you a top five team. It doesn't matter if it is Mississippi Valley St most fans still look at the bottom line wins and rankings. I fall into the non purist especially for the non conference schedule I think you get plenty of competiion when that schedule comes around. I can take the wins by 50 and let those bench players get a lot of playing time they won't get when the conference season starts. I really like the Tennessee lighter non conference schedule this season.

Kim played those cupcake teams last year and had them lined up out the doors to get in. Winning sells tickets and puts butts in the seats, especially when you have a winning team to get behind

 

[chuckiepoo]

Kim played those cupcake teams last year and had them lined up out the doors to get in. Winning sells tickets and puts butts in the seats, especially when you have a winning team to get behind

Yessir/Ma’am. Not sure how I feel about the weak scheduling. I want to hate it. I also respect Swizzle Britches. She brings “The Show”. Pretty good coach too, by the way, it certainly creates a national narrative which is good for her program. All media bloviating iz good bloviating!

 

[Volfan2012]

Yessir/Ma’am. Not sure how I feel about the weak scheduling. I want to hate it. I also respect Swizzle Britches. She brings “The Show”. Pretty good coach too, by the way, it certainly creates a national narrative which is good for her program. All media bloviating iz good bloviating!

It all comes down to how many season tickets you can sell with a schedule. Having some huge home games against SEC foes LSU and Sc certainly helps. Then the walkups certainly will increase or decrease with the quality of the opponent at least at Tennessee. I don't expect attendance to be down from last season actually expect it to be up so we'll see how it works out.

 

[glv98]

Coming off a national championship changes things completely. They can get away with the preseason cupcakes at home and sell plenty of tickets. Probably give away a ton of those tickets as well.

But for the rest of the world, playing Sisters of the Poor is generally an attendance killer.

 

[Volfan2012]

2023-24 Women's Basketball Schedule - Ole Miss Athletics

The official 2023-24 Women's Basketball schedule for the Ole Miss Rebels

olemisssports.com

The Ole Miss non conference not as good as ours but better than LSU

 

[Volfan2012]

Will check schedules as they come out

 

[FormerLadyVolFan]

Candy should have 12 wins before their SEC schedule...

 

[gule]

Just my opinion but that LSU non- conference schedule is a total embarrassment to the SEC. " SHAME SHAME SHAME !" as Gomer Pyle would say!

 

[Knoxvol14]

Typical schedule for LSU. UT's is weaker than normal schedules and the overpaid HC got a pay raise and extension which prove the AD doesn't care about WBB

So who is the wbb program with a harder schedule thus far? Until SC releases theirs, I've not seen a harder schedule.

Kellie has consistently been 3rd in the sec (last year in the sec championship), and she's the fourth highest paid in the sec. That's pretty much in line with the performance.

 

[Knoxvol14]

Candy should have 12 wins before their SEC schedule...

I wish they'd just hurry up and leave the SEC. Their athletic programs are embarrassing. Hawaii had to use a tent for a locker room at this past weekend's football game. The SEC doesn't have room for programs that don't invest in sports.

 

[Volfan2012]

So who is the wbb program with a harder schedule thus far? Until SC releases theirs, I've not seen a harder schedule.

Kellie has consistently been 3rd in the sec (last year in the sec championship), and she's the fourth highest paid in the sec. That's pretty much in line with the performance.

The current NCAA ratings NET doesn't require you to schedule tough so there is no benefit to it unless your trying to make a few more dollars hoping to draw larger crowds with the better teams. When you do this you may be sacrificing a high seed in the NCAA tourney if you go to strong like Tennessee did last season. You take three or four of those games off last season and schedule against winnable teams Tennessee is easily a three seed. I know we got a four which could've easily been a five. I really thought Iowa State would get that four and we got it instead. Until the NCAA penalizes you for a soft schedule I don't see many teams doing it anymore. I think we'll find in the end when all schedules are released Tennessee will be at least second or third in the SEC and at least top 15 in the country.

 

[glv98]

So who is the wbb program with a harder schedule thus far? Until SC releases theirs, I've not seen a harder schedule.

If you mean in the SEC, no one. But if you mean WBB in general have you seen UConn's sched? No one comes close to that. And yes I know he plays in an easy conference and needs the quad 1 games. Say what you will about Geno, he'll play anyone. Except us

 

[Volfan2012]

2023-24 Women's Basketball Schedule - University of North Carolina Athletics

The official 2023-24 Women's Basketball schedule for the University of North Carolina Heels

goheels.com

The NC schedule certainly not tougher than ours they do play SC and UConn but we have to play SC twice in conference. The ACC is a good league with Notre Dame, Duke, and Va Tech but I think the SEC easily matches that with Sc, LSU, and Ole Miss and then how good will Georgia be or Texas A&M, Miss St or even Alabama has a very good recruiting class coming in.

 

[Knoxvol14]

The current NCAA ratings NET doesn't require you to schedule tough so there is no benefit to it unless your trying to make a few more dollars hoping to draw larger crowds with the better teams. When you do this you may be sacrificing a high seed in the NCAA tourney if you go to strong like Tennessee did last season. You take three or four of those games off last season and schedule against winnable teams Tennessee is easily a three seed. I know we got a four which could've easily been a five. I really thought Iowa State would get that four and we got it instead. Until the NCAA penalizes you for a soft schedule I don't see many teams doing it anymore. I think we'll find in the end when all schedules are released Tennessee will be at least second or third in the SEC and at least top 15 in the country.

My comment had nothing to do with this but in response to this post where the guy was knocking kellie, her pay and our schedule.

 

[Volfan2012]

2023-24 Women's Basketball Schedule - University of Connecticut Athletics

The official 2023-24 Women's Basketball schedule for the University of Connecticut Huskies

uconnhuskies.com

UConn has eight non conference games that would be considered very elite, but who do they have in conference this season? Depaul, Villanova, and Marquette all lost a lot and won't be as good as last season. Taking into consideration that we have SC twice, LSU, and on the road at Ole Miss. Then non conference against Indiana, Notre Dame, and Ohio State we come close in elite games depending on their conference. I can see us having just as many Quad one games as they have with the SEC having more of those games than the Big East. Were at least comparable due to our conference schedule versus theirs.

 

[th2421]

The current NCAA ratings NET doesn't require you to schedule tough so there is no benefit to it unless your trying to make a few more dollars hoping to draw larger crowds with the better teams. When you do this you may be sacrificing a high seed in the NCAA tourney if you go to strong like Tennessee did last season. You take three or four of those games off last season and schedule against winnable teams Tennessee is easily a three seed. I know we got a four which could've easily been a five. I really thought Iowa State would get that four and we got it instead. Until the NCAA penalizes you for a soft schedule I don't see many teams doing it anymore. I think we'll find in the end when all schedules are released Tennessee will be at least second or third in the SEC and at least top 15 in the country.

The NCAA selection committee still uses other criteria beyond just the NET. If they just went by the NET, then LSU would've been a 1 seed (they were #3 in the NET), but instead they were a 3 seed. UConn was #2 in the NET but still dropped to a 2 seed. Oregon was #19 in the NET, which would translate to a 5 seed, but they didn't even make the NCAA tournament.

The committee looks at the following when making decisions, not just the NET:
- Availability of talent (injured or unavailable players)
- Bad losses
- Common opponents
- Competitive in losses
- Conference record
- Early competition versus late competition
- Head-to-head outcomes
- NET ranking
- Non-conference record
- Overall record
- Regional Advisory Committee region rankings
- Significant wins
- Strength of conference
- Strength of schedule

So I think there are plenty of reasons to still create a tough schedule.

 

[Coach Jumper]

The NCAA selection committee still uses other criteria beyond just the NET. If they just went by the NET, then LSU would've been a 1 seed (they were #3 in the NET), but instead they were a 3 seed. UConn was #2 in the NET but still dropped to a 2 seed. Oregon was #19 in the NET, which would translate to a 5 seed, but they didn't even make the NCAA tournament.

The committee looks at the following when making decisions, not just the NET:
- Availability of talent (injured or unavailable players)
- Bad losses
- Common opponents
- Competitive in losses
- Conference record
- Early competition versus late competition
- Head-to-head outcomes
- NET ranking
- Non-conference record
- Overall record
- Regional Advisory Committee region rankings
- Significant wins
- Strength of conference
- Strength of schedule

So I think there are plenty of reasons to still create a tough schedule.

more info on NCAA selection...a few clicks down is how the at-large teams are chosen:

How the field of 68 DI men’s teams is picked for March Madness

The NCAA’s guide to how the 68 teams are chosen, seeded and bracketed for the Division I men's basketball tournament every season.

www.ncaa.com

 

[woodpusher]

The NCAA selection committee still uses other criteria beyond just the NET. If they just went by the NET, then LSU would've been a 1 seed (they were #3 in the NET), but instead they were a 3 seed. UConn was #2 in the NET but still dropped to a 2 seed. Oregon was #19 in the NET, which would translate to a 5 seed, but they didn't even make the NCAA tournament.

The committee looks at the following when making decisions, not just the NET:
- Availability of talent (injured or unavailable players)
- Bad losses
- Common opponents
- Competitive in losses
- Conference record
- Early competition versus late competition
- Head-to-head outcomes
- NET ranking
- Non-conference record
- Overall record
- Regional Advisory Committee region rankings
- Significant wins
- Strength of conference
- Strength of schedule

So I think there are plenty of reasons to still create a tough schedule.

It's clear to me that home attendance is a factor. That one year that Holly got a 3 seed was completely undeserved by what the team did on the court.

 

[Volfan2012]

The NCAA selection committee still uses other criteria beyond just the NET. If they just went by the NET, then LSU would've been a 1 seed (they were #3 in the NET), but instead they were a 3 seed. UConn was #2 in the NET but still dropped to a 2 seed. Oregon was #19 in the NET, which would translate to a 5 seed, but they didn't even make the NCAA tournament.

The committee looks at the following when making decisions, not just the NET:
- Availability of talent (injured or unavailable players)
- Bad losses
- Common opponents
- Competitive in losses
- Conference record
- Early competition versus late competition
- Head-to-head outcomes
- NET ranking
- Non-conference record
- Overall record
- Regional Advisory Committee region rankings
- Significant wins
- Strength of conference
- Strength of schedule

So I think there are plenty of reasons to still create a tough schedule.

They say they use all that didn't see any evidence last season that they did. LSU would've been a two if they hadn't lost to Tennessee in the SEC Tourney. The fact that they got a three seed out of their schedule is enough for me to want to play it. I don't mind anyone that is for a tough non conference schedule. I am for a weaker non conference JMO.

 

[Vol67]

So who is the wbb program with a harder schedule thus far? Until SC releases theirs, I've not seen a harder schedule.

Kellie has consistently been 3rd in the sec (last year in the sec championship), and she's the fourth highest paid in the sec. That's pretty much in line with the performance.

No Stanford
No Texas
No UConn

Weak

 

[turbovol]

Who the hell cares about another team's non-conference schedule? It all comes out in the wash, in the end. By the NCAA tourney
your're either a contender or a pretender and what non-conference games you played doesn't matter a whit.

 

[glv98]

Who the hell cares about another team's non-conference schedule? It all comes out in the wash, in the end. By the NCAA tourney
your're either a contender or a pretender and what non-conference games you played doesn't matter a whit.

As a season ticket holder, I care lots of whits what the home non conf sched looks like. Those cupcake games are just painful to sit thru.

 

[Coach Jumper]

As a season ticket holder, I care lots of whits what the home non conf sched looks like. Those cupcake games are just painful to sit thru.

yes they are,, but they are essential to allow your deep bench to get pt

 

[glv98]

Not asking for a cupcake free sched, I realize they have some value. But as a paying customer, I want at least 3-4 fun to watch games where I get to see some quality teams and players I wouldn't otherwise see.

That said, I no longer believe a highly competitive non conf sched is all that valuable. Espec if it barely matters in seeding. Coaches and players will forever say "it made us tougher, it brought us together" but in our case, the SEC sched is perfectly capable of providing that. I'm putting that ole saw in the bag with the magical time out and trap games.

I just want good games for my own selfish enjoyment.

 

[StorrsCentral]

Good non-conference matchups are good for the fans and good for the sport. Isn't that why Pat always did that?