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I pay virtually no attention to any other games other than the Zips.

You're not allowed to. Marquette declined an at-large bid to the 1970 tournament to play in the NIT instead, which the won. In 1971 the NCAA instituted a rule that if you're selected to the tournament, you must participate or have no postseason.

In addition, soon we will be at a point where the best of the best of the best end up annually at 5-6 schools. Those schools will win the championship every year. Same in football. There is nothing interesting about it. I can't even dislike a lot of teams I used to because I don't care enough to dislike them. I find myself increasingly uninterested in college athletics and it's more than the NIL. I enjoy going to Wake Forest games, even though that's getting increasingly difficult, and watching the Zips from afar. Other than that, I really don't care much for it and I used to love college athletics. Maybe it's because it's now minor league sports and I don't like minor league sports.

probably just a matter of time before one of the lesser conference champs declines their spot in the NCAAT to participate in one of the mid-major tourneys. KSU is arguably having more fun in the postseason than what we did.

So what you're saying is Kent State lost to a soon to be D3 school this past football season 🤣

Sounds like something the coach of Louisville would say after barely escaping 82-76 back in 2019.

100%. I remember when Groce couldn't play Tavari b/c of him being such a liability on defense (reminds me of Young). Tavari just had the biggest stop of the MACC.

So much for my high hopes. Off to a very slow, discouraging start to MAC play. Stranded 11 in 8-2 loss to Oakland today.

Still makes me all warm inside. https://x.com/MACSports/status/1901084000845762665?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1901096441008869771|twgr^7081e24e91602c2b0a0a3384f9941b8429ee5373|twcon^s3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fzipsnation.org%2Fforums%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fmegdonovan44%2Fstatus%2F1901096441008869771%3Ft%3DM4QSVLZsvgxX4neyp47Eew26s%3D19

I remember Groce telling a story at some event about how they played a P4 school closely and in the handshake line the opposing coach leaned in and said "we're never doing this again."

I don't think P4s pay schools like Akron, at least not very often.

fortunately, we don't have to worry about that for another year. but we can worry about: attendance, home and homes with Villanova, John's next endeavor, keeping up with John and Dustin, facilities, red pandas, and lack of a viable and serviceable big.

Watch this trend closely! Not the first, won't be the last.

Perhaps we need to take a smaller payment then. Or just keep doing what we're doing 🤷‍♂️

Within a week St. Francis went from playing in the play-in game to D3. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44402532/saint-francis-first-four-loss-moving-division-iii

I don't know if it has much to do with being scared or not. I would imagine @ZipsFan31 is correct regarding the payment. I'm just saying that Bud Wentz has blatantly told Zips fans we've tried for bigger opponents, but they don't want to play us - whether that be risk assessment, payment terms, scheduling terms, etc.

Yes, it's most likely they just don't want to play us on the terms that we prefer. We probably ask for a larger payout than they wish to pay. If it's that much of a pain to schedule P5 opponents, we can negotiate as part of our football deals. If Rutgers, Minnesota, or a Nebraska want to pay us to come play football at their stadium, negotiate us going to play basketball there as well. Football drives the boat at these B1G/SEC schools so if it benefits their football program, they'll sacrifice basketball.

I think it has to do with what we accept as payment. If we go there for free then they will schedule us… it’s an honor to get to play others teams. I would imagine you don’t get paid, unlike football

At St Mary's is exactly the type of game we need to play.

Kansas hosted Oakland and Furman Auburn hosted Vermont, Kent, Richmond Arizona hosted Davidson WVU hosted UMass Houston hosted Troy and Toledo JMU @ Wake OU @ Memphis etc etc .... Do we really think these teams are all scared of us vs the teams they scheduled?

He did. A year ago on a podcast that @Blue & Gold posted. I don’t remember the teams he mentioned.

Didn't Bud Wentz say that Kansas and other programs alike told us no?

I think this is a really underrated point. Quad determination is a huge factor now in scheduling.

When it comes to scheduling a school like Akron can’t get in state P4 games because the schools are scared to get embarrassed if they lose. what we have to focus on is going to top 16 programs on the road… this will give us practice at the 1st round of the NCAA tournaments level of play. And those teams like to bring in top mid majors to pad their resume and get practice for their 1st round match up. we need to play Kansas Duke Kentucky Michigan State, UConn. For free on the road. For home game try and get top mid majors home and home.

Don't we already have a Nike symbol on the jersey?