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wgdsr wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:37 pm
the ivy woe is me late start times mantra will have to wait another sport year at least, methinks.
i'm actually a little shocked you of all people has fallen for it.
how did the tigers look in the fall?
You believe starting two weeks later has no impact on scheduling with the advent of conference play and conference tournaments? I agree to disagree. 12 games is light. The coach said so himself, but what does he know. Probably lying about preferring to play more games.... looked fine against OSU. Quick tempo offense. New face on attack. Defense should be good. As much success as last season? who knows.. Hard to tell. Face-off units improved also.
nobody's lying. they just don't prefer enough. i heard detroit mercy is available most mid-weeks. btw, ironically the domers' 1st game is feb 15. then they play on the 19th.
who's the new guy @ attack? that's got to be good news at d.
I wonder why ND doesn't start earlier? Seems like it would be easier to get more games in instead of craming them in over a shorter period. Detroit to Princeton is quite a trip for a midweek game. I see their midweek non conference game is at Ohio State. Might be 2 1/2 - 3 hours. Surprise they don't try to get down to UNC or Duke for a Tuesdays game while school is in session.
the princeton women played 5 midweek games last year that weren't spring break. they will play another 5 this year. some on the road. for the men, it's 2 last year, 1 this year. class situation i'm sure is similar if not identical.
one of the reasons the men can do this is because a # of their peers are playing 12, 13, 14 games and it's not much of a difference. the women play more games across nc$$ and they would stick out like a sore thumb if they played a dozen.
nd needs to go 6 and 6 at the minimum, then. 6 wins? pretty good shot one of those is a tournament team right there.
Whoever said there are no midweek games? One on the women’s is a conference game. Some coaches like a strategy of 12 high quality games with on one week’s rest. I have heard it out of their mouths. 12 games is a razor’s edge IMHO and you are free to believe that travel distance for a midweek games is irrelevant. That’s your opinion. Show me where I said, Princeton only scheduled 12 games because they can’t get play midweek. Two midweek dates from years past have been dropped. One because the team wants full rest heading into the Syracuse game. But hey, maybe it’s just play 12 go 6-6 and hope to get in the tournament as a .500 team. You are also free to believe that team that has a 3 week head start for scheduling games doesn’t have more scheduling flexibility…. I was speaking generically, you keep bringing up the Tigers for some reason.
i too, don't understand what we're doing here. personally, i don't believe playing *only* 12 games matters much at all vs. 13 or 14 or however many.
nothing is perfect and scheduling is not easy, there are a lot of moving parts. and it's easy to get it wrong in hindsight when your opponents underperform.
one thing the entire acc did very poorly was set up their shiny new 6 game schedule. not just hindsight, said it was a turrible idea at the time. they risk it again if a team or 2 has a disaster of a season.
the irish have been undeterred with a lighter game schedule because if anything it's been a non-issue and in fact they've been largely rewarded with bids.
while it's my opinion that it's difficult preseason to know what will be important come selection time, many instances (the acc schedule among them) lead me to believe some coaches don't even read the tea leaves that
are available very well.
My generic point that geography makes it easier for some schools to schedule midweek than others is invalid? Notice I didn’t say it’s the only reason why a particular school doesn’t schedule more…. You also believe my generic point that being able to start playing games 3 weeks earlier has no potential impact on a school’s ability to schedule more games? Those two things have no impact on scheduling?
go back a few pages on this thread and i mentioned how notre dame might have circumstances, particularly as an outpost and in an odd # conference, to make late season
scheduling difficult.
however, if they really cared to get 13 or 14 games in, they would do it. they'd start early. they'd travel midweek.
there are similar shades of truth to what you're saying about p'ton. it's not *easy*. in their case, they may prefer to have more, and i'll take your word of course that they do. but if they either felt it was compelling to do or just
really wanted to? they would have a couple more games.
prior to last year, any ivy couldn't be faulted to think they'd have to probably also make the ilt for an nc$$ bid in the 1st place. giving them another game at least against a strong team.