midampub Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 http://www.midampub.com/CollegeBB.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 My, my, my. GoZips must be a psychic. He has doled out all these games in tidbitformat over the past couple of months. Including, mind you, a home date withDayton next year.The only real disappointment is not getting a game with Gonzaga. But, hang on, thatis likely to happen next season. Note that the Zips travel to Laramie, WY to play the Wyoming Cowboys then. Its an easy jump to Seattle or Spokane from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips88 Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Another disappointment is the December 21st home game against Youngstown. Far cry from Nevada that we had in here around the same time last year.(really only posted this just to piss eguins off a little bit ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipboy Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 Thanks for all the updates GoZips. 8 home games, 3 neutral games, and 3 road games is very favorable.Quality opponents in Winthrop, Temple, Dayton, one of the Alaska games, Wyoming, and UIC. This is definitely an upgrade from last year and should help the RPI. I like this much better than playing a couple top 20 teams with no return games. Home and homes against quality competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 I like this schedule. As zipboy said, no top teams but a lot of decent ones. All the games are winnable, some of them are hard but winnable.I can't wait till November already, because i don't anticipate a very exciting football season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 It's an upgrade from last year....I'll give it that.The real question you have to ask yourselves is this.......Is this schedule strong enough for us to get an at-large bid if we do not win the MAC Tournament? If the answer is "no", then it's not good enough. We already know, after last year's results, that we can't get into the tournament with 25 wins anymore. We have to play at least a couple of top-ranked teams, even if those games are on the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 The real question you have to ask yourselves is this.......Is this schedule strong enough for us to get an at-large bid if we do not win the MAC Tournament? If the answer is "no", then it's not good enough.The 2006-7 Drexel team had a monster schedule, and beat Villanova, Creighton and Syracuse on the road. They won 23 games, had a 39 RPI...and didn't make it.I don't think there is a schedule possible that would guarantee any mid-major an NCAA at-large berth anymore.I love the schedule. It gives us a fighting chance for the post-season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 The only way for a "mid-major" to get an at large is to either win their conference or go undefeated and lose their championship game while being ranked in the top 15. I like this years schedule more than last years, except for the game against NC Central and NC A&T. The biggest concern is winning the tournament in Alaska. That is the key to getting off to a fast start and not killing our RPI (not that it means anything anymore). Looking back, you could argue that losing that first game in the tournament last year ruined the entire season. I don't want that to happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatFink Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 Just posted this on the MAC board. Inresponse to a number of clackers chewingtheir cuds about Akron's "weak" OOCschedule."Well now, I frankly do not know if "Jimmy" is fearful of Akron or not. I do know thathis teams have lost four straight to the Zips.In most coaches circles that would be a causefor concern. Are you implying that a fine coachsuch as Jim Christian is too stupid to be wary ofa team that has skinned his arse four straight?The Zips schedule appears to be pretty decent.Getting two Div-1 schools to come to your housewithout you going to their house beats buyinggames against Div-3 schools that most MACschools settle for.Getting a home-n-home series with Dayton isout of reach for most MAC schools. Winthropfinished in the top 25. That would appear to be a good schedule since that is a home-homeseries.Scheduling Wyoming implies that the Zips areheaded out to Seattle or Spokane the followingseason for a match up with Gonzaga. Careto wager that the Zags will be in Akron the following season? What, no takers?This schedule gives the Zips EIGHT OOC home games, three neutral court games and threeaway games with quality opponents. Two ofwhich will be in Akron next season. How manyof you would like home games against Winthrop and Dayton in the same season? Oh?That is the type of OOC scheduling Ohio Statepulls off year in, year out. Want to complainthat Thad Matta is afraid to play the big boys?You would rather play five major majors on the road and get your butts kicked five times. Now how does that improve your RPI? Sinceyou know you will lose to the Zips duringconference play?The Zips OOC may be the best in the conference.Ask your head coach." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcperp Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 All in all a decent schedule and is a precursor to an even better 08-09 OOC schedule. Would like to see the Zips get a better ESPN bracket buster game than last year's clunker vs. APSU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 After looking at our schedule again, I decided to see how it stacked up to last years scheduling when all we had to go by was the previous year's RPI. This years scheduled opponents finished the season with an average RPI of 166, not counting NC Central and SC Upstate or the Bracketbuster. Looking back at scheduling last years schedule, our oppponents had an average RPI of 195 at the time of scheduling, not counting the Bracketbuster or Winston-Salem State.That's a 29 spot improvement. It's not where I would like it to be, but it's nowhere near as weak as last years schedule. Then again, if NC Central and SC Upstate suck, which they probably will, it could drag our strength of schedule down even lower than last years. The only way for those games to benefit us is if those teams play a killer schedule because 25% of the RPI is calculated by your opponents' opponents records. Of course, all this means probably nothing because the only way any team from the MAC gets to dance is by winning the conference tournament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 Great research uakronkid. I'll have to agree that there probably is no way to get to the big tournament without winning the MAC tournament. I just wish that wasn't the case. But we can at least help our case by continuing to upgrade our OOC schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbs95 Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 Sory to sound stupid, but can anyone tel me what RPI stands for? and how it effects the schedule? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 I got this for you... i copied it from this link:http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/rpi_help/The Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) is the formula used by the NCAA to rate men’s and women’s college basketball teams. The formula is described below. The RPI is calculated by adding three parts. Part I (25% of the formula): Team winning percentage. For the 2005 season, the NCAA added a bonus/penalty system, where each home win or road loss get multiplied by 0.6 in the winning percentage calculation. A home loss or road win is multiplied by 1.4. Neutral games count as 1.0. More on the effect of these changes can be found here. Part II (50%): Average opponents’ winning percentage. To calculate this, you must calculate each opponent’s winning percentage individually and average those figures. This is NOT calculated from the opponents’ combined record. Games involving the team for whom we are calculating the RPI are ignored. Part III (25%): Average opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage: Basically taking all of the opponents’ Part II values and averaging them. Only games against other teams playing a mostly D1 schedule count when computing the RPI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbs95 Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 skhorbotly, thanks for the reponse I was wondering how they came up withthe schedule.one other dumbe quest what is the difference between a Power Forward and a center? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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