MBB Out Of Conference Schedule

[TheRealUW]

Looks like Sunny released the schedule earlier this week. Thoughts?

Personally, I'm happy to see regional foes like South Dakota, DU, and South Dakota State on the schedule. If we aren't going to get the big boys to play us, then let's focus on playing teams in our region.

Interesting that they will be playing an exhibition game up in Gillette. I don't know if that is related to Sunny being from there or maybe if he will try to rotate an exhibition game around the state moving forward.

 

[McPeachy]

Agree on the regional opponents - which makes filling the schedule easier. Wyoming, under Burman, has largely been a joke when it comes to non-conference scheduling. And they all just throw up their hands and say "nobody wants to travel to Laramie". I call bullshit on that...there are what 350 options to put on your OOC schedule? JFC.

 

[rocket city poke]

I am certain our coaching staff and athletic director and total budget will be significantly higher than any non-conference program on our schedule with the exception of Texas Tech and the only reason Tech is on the schedule is to avoid the buyout of our previous coach. If the coaches and administration are being paid this much they should be playing a schedule with similar type of salaries. I drives me crazy that this goes on and has been the basic scheduling model for most of Burman's time as athletic director. The fan base should be outraged at the level this program has sunk to.

 

[TheRealUW]

I am certain our coaching staff and athletic director and total budget will be significantly higher than any non-conference program on our schedule with the exception of Texas Tech and the only reason Tech is on the schedule is to avoid the buyout of our previous coach. If the coaches and administration are being paid this much they should be playing a schedule with similar type of salaries. I drives me crazy that this goes on and has been the basic scheduling model for most of Burman's time as athletic director. The fan base should be outraged at the level this program has sunk to.

Yeah, I'm not sure who to blame anymore.

Burman will tell you that basketball scheduling is handled by the coaches. I have no knowledge if this is true or not, but Burman has made this statement several times, and I have never heard a basketball coach push back against that claim.

A few years ago, Linder claimed that he contacted every single power 4 program in the nation and told them UW was willing to play them anytime and anywhere...and still was not able to get any takers. If that is true, I'm not sure what further steps the coaches could take to get a better schedule. Maybe offer large sums of money to convince teams to play us? But I doubt we have the cash to be offering a bunch of money to other programs just so they will be willing to put us on their non-conference basketball schedule. I truly have no idea how we got here or what the answer is at this point.

I also do not understand the Texas Tech thing and why we agreed to this over taking the cash from the buyout in Linder's contract. We didn't even get one game in Laramie. So we get to go to Lubbock twice to be slaughtered by 30+ points and that is preferable over the cash buyout? I don't get it. Maybe someone can explain why this was a good deal.

 

[McPeachy]

I am certain our coaching staff and athletic director and total budget will be significantly higher than any non-conference program on our schedule with the exception of Texas Tech and the only reason Tech is on the schedule is to avoid the buyout of our previous coach. If the coaches and administration are being paid this much they should be playing a schedule with similar type of salaries. I drives me crazy that this goes on and has been the basic scheduling model for most of Burman's time as athletic director. The fan base should be outraged at the level this program has sunk to.

I am pretty outraged. Before Burman, with McClain, we had momentum, great attendance, and were competitive. I can't say the same for the last 17 - 18 years.

 

[McPeachy]

I also do not understand the Texas Tech thing and why we agreed to this over taking the cash from the buyout in Linder's contract. We didn't even get one game in Laramie. So we get to go to Lubbock twice to be slaughtered by 30+ points and that is preferable over the cash buyout? I don't get it. Maybe someone can explain why this was a good deal.

I don't get it either, doesn't make any sense (at least right now).

 

[Bryoming]

Yeah, I'm not sure who to blame anymore.

Burman will tell you that basketball scheduling is handled by the coaches. I have no knowledge if this is true or not, but Burman has made this statement several times, and I have never heard a basketball coach push back against that claim.

A few years ago, Linder claimed that he contacted every single power 4 program in the nation and told them UW was willing to play them anytime and anywhere...and still was not able to get any takers. If that is true, I'm not sure what further steps the coaches could take to get a better schedule. Maybe offer large sums of money to convince teams to play us? But I doubt we have the cash to be offering a bunch of money to other programs just so they will be willing to put us on their non-conference basketball schedule. I truly have no idea how we got here or what the answer is at this point.

I also do not understand the Texas Tech thing and why we agreed to this over taking the cash from the buyout in Linder's contract. We didn't even get one game in Laramie. So we get to go to Lubbock twice to be slaughtered by 30+ points and that is preferable over the cash buyout? I don't get it. Maybe someone can explain why this was a good deal.

The bottom line for us is that we aren't competitive enough to be a good game for teams in the 75-125 RPI range. We'd be a quad 4 win if they beat us, and a quad 4 loss if they lose. There's no incentive for any decent teams to come to Larmie unless we get back to a respectable level consistently over the next 2-3 years.

 

[TheRealUW]

Another thing that surprised me was that we don't appear to be participating in any preseason tournaments. The last few years, that is the way we have been able to consistently face competition at our level on a neutral floor.

Maybe they just aren't announcing that part yet?