But if the Conference (and the member university presidents who control the policy) wanted to do it this way Tampa would have no recourse. I suspect that may very well be what is going on...jakester wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:45 pmAgree Red to a point. Look at UMO https://umotrojans.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/schedule. They have their conference games, but did well with outside conference selections in Wingate, Queens, Catawba and CMU. IMO Tampa could have scheduled outside games but choose not to. Might hurt them come section time when the strength of schedule counts...RedFromMI wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:45 am What the SSC is doing with conference only games is not completely uncommon in this pandemic year. I believe the NE10 is doing something similar as well.
With reduced schedules anyway, the number of out of conference games is more limited than what you would get in a normal year. Just makes the selection process harder, and maybe a bit more "iffy" to appropriately determine the teams asked to the dance, so to speak.
For the last several years the SSC is one of the strongest conferences according to my calculations of the KRACH ratings. But if there are truly no OOC games for the SSC, it will be quite interesting how the algorithms that the NCAA uses will evaluate their records...