dude43 Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Is there a chance for an at large bid?If so how many wins are needed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 An at-large bid would require UA to win every game for the rest of the season, and lose in the Conference finals, not to mention having some extra help like getting some teams we have already beaten to win out as well. In short: No, there is no chance for an at-large bid without several miracles happening simultaniously. or bust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsum1283 Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 with the way the team's been playing recently, a mac championship is not out of the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 No, winning the MAC tourney is not out of the question, but if we didn't win it, but won out the season with a conf.record of 15-1 and overll record of 26-4, one would like to think you could get a freakin' bid to the big dace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 According to the RPI simulations, the best possible scenario (winning out with all previous opponents winning out if possible) would give us an RPI of aproximately 44 which is still only good enough to be a bubble team, and we would likely miss out because, unfortunately, the committee believes the MAC to be a 1 bid conference.RPI forecast Just click on Akron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeaglet1 Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 I can;t imagine a team with a SOS rank of 264 getting an at large, especially with the best win being #91 Oral Roberts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearTheRoo Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Help me out when it comes to records:Some sites have us at 16 wins and others have us at 15. The latter must not be counting the exhibition game. Which is "official"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 I concur. Winning every game, and losing in the conference championship probably puts us on the bubble. But then, we lose out to some team that is 17-13 from the Big East or ACC. That's how it would play out. The selection committee looks at the MAC that way.So, in other words, you don't have to win, you just have to play good teams. They've been making selections based on that for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatwad Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 I believe the Tiffin game is not counted for RPI purposes because they are not D-I. thats the 15/16 discrepancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 I believe the Tiffin game is not counted for RPI purposes because they are not D-I. thats the 15/16 discrepancy. You are correct. Non-Division I games do not count towards the RPI or the official record. Tiffin was essentially just a way to have a complete schedule. Those teams that backed out of our schedule at the last minute are really hurting us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatwad Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 What teams backed out of our schedule at the last minute? I thought the Tiffin game came about as a result of us losing in the first round of that tourney against UALR. Otherwise we would have had at least 1 additional game in the tourney and therefore making the Tiffin game unnecessary. I think that's why it was put on, unless I'm mistaken...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Both the winner and the loser of the UALR game played another game. We played Gardner Webb. The Tiffin game would have cancelled only if we have won both UALR and Texas tech to play in the finals... which looked waaay out of reach, so the AD scheduled Tiffin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipgrad1990 Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 No, winning the MAC tourney is not out of the question, but if we didn't win it, but won out the season with a conf.record of 15-1 and overll record of 26-4, one would like to think you could get a freakin' bid to the big dace.If we won out the season and lost in the first round of the MAC tournament we would be 26-5 (we can't finish 26-4 since all teams make the tournament). If we loose in the finals we would end up 28-5. At 28-5, I would think the selection committee would have to take us regardless of our SOS. However I think we will loose at least 2 MAC games prior to the tournament - at Can't (Akron has only won there once in the last 40+ years) and at either Miami or Toledo.If we loose 2 MAC games and loose in the finals we would be 26-7 and that might not be enough for an at large bid. As some one mentioned they will pick a 17-13 team from a major conference instead, which is just a crime. I always like seeing a good Mid-Major team over a mediocre big conference team. And most years the mediocre conference team gets knocked off in the first round, but year after year its always the same mediocre big conference team over the good Mid-Majors that the selection committee picks. At least we have a chance in basketball for a national championship (slim that it is) where as in football we will never have a chance no matter how good we get. At least not if they keep the current BCS format that is.I wish RPI would bring back margin of victory in its calculations. Mid-Major programs like ours can't always schedule good teams so margin of victory would help get our RPI up higher if they still counted SOS in the calculation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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