I didn't look at last year's record. Maybe my mind is thinking 2 yrs ago (or even 3) when New Mexico St was 27-7. But they lost their coach after that year and apparently they didn't do that well. Just look at what New Mexico St did for the 5 year period before last year. Really really good stuff.
Hard to go off last year's record in these times. Some teams have changed out 10-12 players (Tulsa) and even though I have attended several practices, I have no clue on how this team will play. Usually I can estimate a record but will wait till first few games to more accurately predict. I can tell you we have some potentially good shooters, but the inside game gives me no clues yet.
Yeah I just figured it gave some kind of clue, because I doubt the majority of teams we play changed out 10 to 13 players like we did. There will be some teams who improve dramatically more, from one year to the next, but most of them won't, even if they changed a bunch of their players.
I'm highly encouraged by everyone's talk of Reed. I don't think anyone on this board saw him as anything more of a role player as a FR so he could learn the game and contribute meaningful minutes years 2-4. Hoping Hall adjusts as well as Reed has.
I forgot they had an issue last year with hazing (not to mention a Baylor type of incident where a player brought a gun to Albuquerque to shoot a UNM student whom he had an altercation with previously).
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I wonder if we get a discount on their payouts since JSU and SCSU are basically passing through town anyway on their way home from Rolla?
Has TU ever had a schedule where only 1 OOC game was played outside the state of Oklahoma or any point during an 11-game stretch where they only played 1 game outside the state?
I hadn't noticed that lol!
I hadn't paid attention either. 8 home games and a road trip to Arkansas, OKC, and Tulsa. That's pretty easy on the kids. Are we going to get a road heavy schedule next year, with home and homes?
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There is that game that is a little tougher than OSU! 😁 Maybe New Mexico St cobbled a team together that will be tough. Well the schedule should be out in the next day or four. @nevadanatural you got your 30th.
Looks right on schedule for Oct 2 or 3 final release. 😁 Next year we won't see it till round 10/10.I think the latest it's ever come out is the 26th. But they have been putting it out like a week later every time out. So that should put it coming out between now and Oct 2nd or 3rd.Sometime in the next 2 weeks.
2028 we will have a schedule 11/1Looks right on schedule for Oct 2 or 3 final release. 😁 Next year we won't see it till round 10/10.
Looks like we're doing sloppy seconds on other teams' body bag games. Wait til someone in the neighborhood schedules a Sun or Thurs game and then hit up the body bag team with "hey, you're in the neighborhood and are free and we're a short bus ride..." That's probably why the schedules takes longer, we wait for other teams to do their schedules then hunt out these opportunities. Probably also the issue on SCSU, trying to find a date where someone else in the area will split the cost.
It's OK. When you have a year like last year and are trying to rebuild a program as well as the confidence of the players and fans in the program, you have to have some scheduling like this to get winning again. What Wojcik failed to capitalize on was scheduling to improve the team as he was only worried about the W/L record. How can you fire a guy that won 20 games? Well, when your RPI is so low despite those 20+ wins that you're not even on the radar of the NIT...that's how.
With this non conference schedule, and the relative weakness of the conference in comparison to years previous, I think we should expect over .500. I do acknowledge, such an expectation would be a massive jump from last year’s performance though.
I have no problem with it this year, I was reacting to the post that this is how Konkol's teams, good or bad, in the past have usually scheduled. I mean, won a lot of games against bad schedules but never got to the dance does sound eerily familiar now that you bring it up.
Hopefully we are good enough that people want to start scheduling us so we can get this thing earlier.
