[NU Sports] Our non-conference schedule

[Roy Lamberton]

Personally, I'd rather see more home and home conference BASKETBALL games...

BTW - the basketball schedule came out today.

rsl

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Michael Vance
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:34 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Our non-conference schedule
> 
> 
> Hardly any conference plays every team.  The ACC used to be 
> able to do 
> it when they were a nine-team conference, but the Big Ten 
> never did, or 
> at least hasn't in a very, *very* long time.  Even before we were the 
> Big Televen, one team was off the schedule every year.  The main 
> difference there was that only the year-end games were "protected" 
> rivalries.
> 
> And don't even get me started on the conferences with multiple 
> divisions.  Sure, in a twelve team conference you play every team in 
> your division every year, but you only get to play three of 
> the six in 
> the other division.
> 
> A three-game non-conference schedule became the expectation a 
> long time 
> ago.  I agree that it's unfortunate that the extra game 
> wasn't added to 
> conference play when the 12-game season was implemented.  But 
> you also 
> have to consider the mathematics of scheduling.  A couple of 
> years ago, 
> this topic was addressed in a Trib article that was heavily 
> drawn from a 
> Jim Delaney interview.  As Delaney pointed out, with an eleven-team 
> league, it's impossible to have a nine game conference schedule.
>