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Topic: And we STILL can't get home and homes?!?
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Posted: 3/21/2012 11:45 AM
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I realize that the guys on this list

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/032112aaa.html

(specifically the ADs, but also the conference commissioners) have a fiduicary duty to do whats best for their programs, and that making a road trip to Athens might not qualify as being in the best finicial or program-strength interest of their programs, but we can't get a 2-for-1 (or hell, a 3-for-1) with any of these programs? (I'm excepting Doug Elgin here, since we are in the midst of a home and home with The Valley's Northern Iowa)
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Posted: 3/22/2012 2:30 PM
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Wouldn't it be great if the NCAA mandated that ALL games should be on a home and home basis?

Of course, they wouldn't want to lose the revenue of having a big school in a small arena, but maybe the caveat is a home-home mandate for all schools that have arenas with at least a 6,000 or 7,000 capacity (higher than the 2011 national average of 5,237).

Big coaches would balk, but I think this starts to level the playing field a bit.
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Posted: 3/22/2012 2:34 PM
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OhioStunter wrote:expand_more
Wouldn't it be great if the NCAA mandated that ALL games should be on a home and home basis?

Of course, they wouldn't want to lose the revenue of having a big school in a small arena, but maybe the caveat is a home-home mandate for all schools that have arenas with at least a 6,000 or 7,000 capacity (higher than the 2011 national average of 5,237).

Big coaches would balk, but I think this starts to level the playing field a bit.


I'd like to see them require that at least 50% be that.  Or maybe a third.  It might make RPI and SOS be more useful statistics for talking about at large bids.
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Posted: 3/22/2012 2:50 PM
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Maybe each school has a one- or two-game waiver for home-home contracts per season.
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Posted: 3/22/2012 4:06 PM
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Problem is on the flip side there are schools that would rather go around and collect checks to help the bottom line.
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Posted: 3/22/2012 4:06 PM
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I'm open to anything that gives schools the ability have a little more fairness in scheduling.  That said, money talks and it won't likely happen soon.
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Posted: 3/23/2012 1:25 AM
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Let me tell you something. It's probably the most important that that you've ever been told:  People dig the O H I O.  They will want us in their stadia and arenas.  Watch.  They want to revel in and with us.
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Posted: 3/23/2012 1:35 AM
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Sure. The O H I O can accept invites to other arenas. But let's make sure we arrange for those teams to experience the C O N V O and the O Z O N E.
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Posted: 3/23/2012 7:21 AM
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How about requiring that at least 25% of OOC games have to be road games.
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