I understand it's a secret scrimmage. I'm saying it would be nice to schedule an actual game in the non con with them.
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I understand it's a secret scrimmage. I'm saying it would be nice to schedule an actual game in the non con with them.
Would be nice to have 2 big home games a year, a top mid major team would be good enough. We have Cinci this year and that is it since SEC and Iowa are on the road. Next year we'll be fine with Iowa and SEC at home.
Good news is we should be able to coast to a ranking since rankings don't care as much about who you beat, but NCAA seeding does.
How do you have Vanderbilt as the toughest game? No way. Gonzaga would be if they played them by far. And Iowa number 3? No. And just because Cincinnati is at home I wouldn't put them outside of the 3 most difficult non con games. They are going to be good.
Because we pay money to attend the games at Hilton, and those games mostly suck.
We'll be 2 months into the season before I get to see ISU play a meaningful game with my own eyeballs.
But that's the NCAA rule, there's 27 regular season games + 1 tournament with up to 4 games.
Hey Drake returns their leading scorer next season!
Drake in those rankings should have been slumming it with The Citadel and Savannah State.
Sounds like another fan who enjoys every Cyclone game could use your tickets then. Besides, were you complaining last year? We didn't play a decent team until mid December, about 2 weeks LATER than we host Cincy this year.
I guess I didn't realize that the Advocare tourney didn't include a few home games as part of the tourney like most every other tournament does, which is kind of dumb. There are two glaring holes in which me play no games that kind of sucks. 6 days off between Nov 14th and Nov 20th, and 11 days off between Dec 20th and Dec 31st.
Counting backwards to me, it looks like the first day would be Dec 31st for conference play as the Big 12 schedule hasnt set up as bye week for teams that last few years, so we only need 9 weeks plus 1 Saturday for the 18 conference games and 1 SEC game. However, can we start conference play on the 31st with the CFB Playoff going that day and all our basketball games on the ESPN networks?
CycloneErik
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With the traffic management and everything else, it's a four hour commitment of time to watch MVSU, Savannah State, and other games that suck.
Since someone will bring it up, nobody asks for Murderer's Row out there, just a few games with recognizable teams that we can care about and enjoy as a game. The games we get here at Hilton are terrible. We're just taking advantage of sucker fans (like me) that keep buying tickets to see the same thing over and over again.
Are you planning on missing the Cincy game? First game of the regular season is Nov 11th. Less than three weeks later we play Cincinnati at home.
This is just silly. You get 10 games (out of 16) against high major foes at home. Well worth the money.
Baylor's press release for their schedule stated that their 1st conference game will be either 12/28 or 12/29. Maybe everyone will play then and then have the weekend off. I have also noticed that the latest any Big XII team has a non-con game is 12/21.
CycloneErik
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If thats the case, I would be willing to bet a lot of money teams there will be no Big 12 basketball games New Years weekend. Thats a good thing, if true, because there are only 3 conference games that will be played before the students are back, instead of 4.
Looks like there will also only be 7 Big Monday games this year. Cant do any on January 2nd with the lineup of bowl games that day, and same with January 9th with the NC game.
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Cincinnati game will be worth it as were the Iowa, Chattanooga, Buffalo and NDSU games last year and the Arkansas, Georgia State games the year before, and the Michigan and Iowa games the year before, etc. Not every non-con will be great, but enough have been that when thrown in with the conference games, they have been well worth the total investment.