I'm not going to sugarcoat it, most of the home non-conference schedule sucks! Arkansas-Pine Bluff? Jackson State? Tennessee State? What, was Prairie View A&M already booked, why aren't they on our schedule too???

With a young team, and a team relying on a lot of new faces, I have no issues with scheduling some cupcakes to get the confidence level high going into MAC play.

My first reaction is the same as OhioBobcat-this schedule sucks. I know everyone likes all the home games but those three close to Christmas are enough to choke anybody to death. Personally, I would exchange those three home games in front of NO students and small crowds for a trip to a Tourney on a neutral court with some decent competition that maybe some alumni might just attend. Then again, that's just my thought.

There is no sugarcoating this schedule, it is bad.

That neutral court tourney you're referring to is taking place in November this year.




While I don't know the answer to this, I'd really question whether a recruit takes the time to go back 2, 3, 4 years to see who has been on the schedule. Rather, I think he would be looking at facilities, future teammates, coachnig staff, and style of play.

If you read about the schedule, you'll note that Saul mentions "When you look at the schedule, it's balanced out to accomplish a lot of goals, and one of those goals is to integrate some younger players into the world of playing college basketball."

When I read in between the lines, he's preparing for the fact that he has five freshman, and seven new faces. Run them out against Maryland, Tennessee and WVU, and they probably lose all three by 15+ if they're early in the season. I'm not sure what purpose that would serve. I do recall him saying at the Columbus caravan, and I'm paraphrasing here, that next year's schedule will be tougher.

Personally, my only complaint is the lack of Saturday home games in all of December. That to me is bad for business when it comes to ticket and concessions sales. And that is confusing to me when you can see they're scheduling a pile of home games during that time.

this is a bit of an arbitrary number but I like to see us have a schedule where the avg RPI of the opponents is better than 150, regardless of the names on the front of the jersey. Using the avg. for the 2nd (178) and 3rd (143) round games in the Paradise Jam the avg RPI for our schedule this year is 204. Not where I would like it to be but for a team that finished with an RPI of 232 last year maybe it is to be expected.

I don't know; I'm pretty excited to see Ohio playing in the Q in Cleveland in December!

I'll absolutely be at the Cleveland State game, and with 5 Saturday home conference games, this might finally be the year I make the trip back to Athens to see a game in the Convo. That alone has me excited.

As for that game at the Q, I think there is a more than decent chance that we have more fans there than CSU. Seems like a lot of Northeast Ohio alums are interested, and I would imagine not playing in the tournament games here last spring has everyone jonesing even more.

Well said.

I have no problem with the cupcakes this year. Young team that will benefit from some early success. You never know how they will come together.

The road schedule isn't bad.

We only play one true road game (St. Bonaventure). All the other non-home OOC games are either neutral or not at the opponents real place (Cleveland State).

I don't hate the schedule as much as some do. I count 7 intriguing games. Glad to see Marshall back on the schedule.

That game is October 12. It's a preseason game.