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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Aug 11, 2021 14:49:36 GMT -5
Nov 9 vs Sacred Heart Nov 13 vs Albany Nov 17 @ Delaware Nov 28 vs Villanova (Palestra) Dec 1 @ Temple Dec 4 vs Holy Cross Dec 7 vs Fairleigh Dickinson Dec 11 vs Penn Dec 18 @ Bucknell Dec 21 vs Drexel
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Post by sweat83 on Aug 11, 2021 14:50:37 GMT -5
I'll go first 8-2. Losses vs Sacred Heart and Holy Cross
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Post by explorer88 on Aug 11, 2021 14:52:02 GMT -5
We should be happy with 6-4.
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Post by calsufan on Aug 11, 2021 15:05:06 GMT -5
7-3
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Post by MisterD on Aug 11, 2021 15:34:28 GMT -5
10-0 or else I melt down here and call for a new coach.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Aug 11, 2021 16:57:26 GMT -5
Other than Villanova and Temple, none of these games prepare us for the caliber of teams amd physicality of the top half of the A10.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Aug 11, 2021 17:23:11 GMT -5
Other than Villanova and Temple, none of these games prepare us for the caliber of teams amd physicality of the top half of the A10. You’re right. Where’s Duke. Why aren’t we flying all over playing the best. Bad job. 🙄
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Post by MisterD on Aug 11, 2021 17:37:11 GMT -5
If we added Duke I'd expect 11-0. Maybe 10-1 if we have a lot of injuries.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Aug 11, 2021 17:42:54 GMT -5
We don't need a Duke, but maybe one more top 100 NET team other than Villanova would be nice to maybe get some mentions in March for an NIT bid.
Final Net rankings for our OOC schedule for teams that played last year:
Villanova 11 Drexel 147 Temple 160 Albany 216 Delaware 220 Bucknell 225 Holy Cross 228 FDU 256 Sacred Heart 270
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Post by MisterD on Aug 11, 2021 17:47:50 GMT -5
How well does NET correlate year to year?
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Aug 11, 2021 17:56:48 GMT -5
You're right. FDU will be a final 4 team and pack the Gola. They are exactly the type of home game we need to build excitement and bring the fans out in droves on a Tuesday evening. They are a perfect team to prepare us for conference play.
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Post by a10champion15 on Aug 11, 2021 18:39:17 GMT -5
You're right. FDU will be a final 4 team and pack the Gola. They are exactly the type of home game we need to build excitement and bring the fans out in droves on a Tuesday evening. They are a perfect team to prepare us for conference play. I wouldn't get too worked up about it. We aren't going to get any high caliber teams at the Gola, you know that. We just couldn't lock up a spot in a non-con tournament which is unfortunate. Also, reviewing the press release it appears they aren't done scheduling as I think they can still add at least 1 more non-conference game I rather them get their feet wet and develop chemistry and roles before A10 play. 4 or 5 of those games should prepare us for A10 play depending how good the A10 is this year. I do think the A10 will be very good this year so we shall see.
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Post by hykos1045 on Aug 11, 2021 19:23:51 GMT -5
No, man. Glitter's right. When I saw Holy Cross and FDU in there the first thing I thought was this schedule was designed to have a winning season (7-3, 8-10, 1-1 = 16-14). It isn't designed to test us, nor to create a postseason worthy resume. But since there are several first and second year players in the starting lineup, I was not at all surprised by this.
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Post by MisterD on Aug 11, 2021 20:36:06 GMT -5
You're right. FDU will be a final 4 team and pack the Gola. They are exactly the type of home game we need to build excitement and bring the fans out in droves on a Tuesday evening. They are a perfect team to prepare us for conference play. Incredibly defensive answer to a pretty direct question, huh?
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Post by thelasallelunatic on Aug 11, 2021 22:26:21 GMT -5
We are certainly saving money on our travel budget with this schedule.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Aug 12, 2021 5:52:08 GMT -5
We are certainly saving money on our travel budget with this schedule. Also there's the whole global pandemic ravaging parts of the country still part of this.
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Post by explorerentourage on Aug 12, 2021 6:21:13 GMT -5
For the record, La Salle and UMass are the only two A10 teams not in an MTE. Meanwhile, UMass has Rutgers and Penn State going to the Mullins Center.
We swiped no to Penn State. (Ha!)
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Post by joe on Aug 12, 2021 6:25:24 GMT -5
I like this schedule. It gives the kids a chance to win. Makes the school look like they are moving in the right direction. School will save on travel. I hope La Salle has a plan to draw fan to the games.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Aug 12, 2021 6:31:06 GMT -5
I seem to recall the hiring of Baptiste would bring the opportunity for him to use his Big East and Big Ten connections to get us some good OOC games. I had hoped that scheduling St. John's last season would be the start of more games against multi-bid conferences beyond the usual Temple and Villanova. I guess not.
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Post by explorer88 on Aug 12, 2021 8:18:15 GMT -5
Ash makes the schedule and not Baptiste. Ash made this schedule with one goal in mind.......collect wins. This program needs to win some games. This roster is not ready to take on the Big East and Big 10.
I said we would be lucky to be 6-4. Nova and Temple are losses. Penn and Bucknell give us fits almost every time we play them. Penn should be good if the Ivy lets them play this year.
If we beat Penn and Bucknell on the road you know we will be better than last year.
We want to play the top teams but a coach needs to build the program and take steps to ensure his program is ready for certain levels of competition. Getting embarrassed is not good for a lot of reasons and we have enough tough competition with Nova, Temple and the rest of the A-10.
I am fine with the schedule for this year. Next year the hope is the program is better so the schedule should be tougher.
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Post by a10champion15 on Aug 12, 2021 9:38:46 GMT -5
Again, it appears the schedule isn't complete. Josh Verlin just mentioned this as well noting that it's only 10 games so there could be a MTE or tournament still being worked out.
I don't know about predictions right now as there are three big factors that are just completely unknown in my mind putting aside any types of analytics.
1. Improvement of the core 2. Impact of transfers, specifically Nickleberry. As you guys can tell I'm extremely high on him 3. Impact of freshmen
If those 3 things happen I think we are in a very solid season.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 9:45:34 GMT -5
I'm not so much mad that we aren't playing ACC, Big10, or Big East Schools. But we arent just playing mid majors, we are playing mostly bottom of the barrel mid majors. Having a couple of those is ok. But we are going to play some REALLY bad teams, then Villanova. You need some balance somewhere. The A10 is going to be very good again this year, add some top of the conference mid majors, and some weaker Big Conference schools (who will also pay to play us and have us travel there). In Ash's 4th year, this is not the schedule he should be assembling. To think he couldn't get a buy game from one of the bigger schools even with a bus trip, is sad.
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Post by a10champion15 on Aug 12, 2021 9:57:56 GMT -5
I'm not so much mad that we aren't playing ACC, Big10, or Big East Schools. But we arent just playing mid majors, we are playing mostly bottom of the barrel mid majors. Having a couple of those is ok. But we are going to play some REALLY bad teams, then Villanova. You need some balance somewhere. The A10 is going to be very good again this year, add some top of the conference mid majors, and some weaker Big Conference schools (who will also pay to play us and have us travel there). In Ash's 4th year, this is not the schedule he should be assembling. To think he couldn't get a buy game from one of the bigger schools even with a bus trip, is sad. Drexel, Temple, Delaware, Penn and Nova should be okay to very good competition. The rest not so much. I don't think it's as imbalanced as it looks on paper. You never know if any one of these anticipated bad teams may be much better than expected. Projections this season are skewed because a lot of teams didn't play all that many games. Penn obviously didn't play at all. Plus adding an MTE or tournament in there changes things.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Aug 12, 2021 10:24:09 GMT -5
The argument that we need a soft schedule and wins because we have a lot of 1st and 2nd year players is ridiculous. Why is that? Transfers. If the argument is that players transferred because there were better players coming in, then we don't need a weak schedule.
Hikim would be in his 3rd year, Jared and Ed their 4th.
We were fine with cupcake city to get wins a few years ago for a new coach building and developing "his guys" who were first and second year players. In year 4, the "we need easy wins because we have a young team" argument gets old. None of these OOC games outside the Big 5 excite me or are from conferences that matter. I want to watch good basketball. La Salle versus Albany doesn't scream "ESPN gameday"
Look at the posted OOC schedules from the other A10 schools versus ours. Many have games against schools in multi-bid leagues. We don't.
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Post by manayunk53 on Aug 12, 2021 10:57:45 GMT -5
They scheduled the Villanova Palestra game on an Eagles Sunday - 1:00 at NY. I'm already annoyed. I suppose that's what I get for re-upping my season tickets before seeing the schedule.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Aug 12, 2021 11:16:54 GMT -5
To think he couldn't get a buy game from one of the bigger schools even with a bus trip, is sad. Be explicit here. Who would this be.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 11:18:41 GMT -5
This is the least inspiring, least exciting, easy schedule since 2006, and it's not particularly close. 19-20 might give it a run, but at least that had a tournament in Florida, something remotely exciting (also a new coach). To have this in year 4 is really bad. You get more fans/more excitement even if a P5 school beats you at their gym, you at least can get tv time, some publicity/coverage. This doesnt do anything but maybe get Ash and co. 6 non-conf wins to try to hold his job. Not a great approach for a school that needs help and needs to make a splash. Going 1-4 vs. P5 (even if they are bad) is better than 5-0 vs. Q4 irrelevant D1s.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2021 11:23:36 GMT -5
To think he couldn't get a buy game from one of the bigger schools even with a bus trip, is sad. Be explicit here. Who would this be. Rutgers Penn State Pitt St. Johns UVA Gtown UConn BC Syracuse WVU Providence Seton Hall UMD And that's just within a Bus Trip.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Aug 12, 2021 11:34:29 GMT -5
Be explicit here. Who would this be. Rutgers Penn State Pitt St. Johns UVA Gtown UConn BC Syracuse WVU Providence Seton Hall UMD And that's just within a Bus Trip. Ok so let’s be realistic about who is actually going to play La Salle. La Salle is always in the same spot: good enough to win the game, but bad enough that the loss is a mark on that team’s resume. Nobody on that list is offering La Salle a buy game. Stop it.
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Post by MisterD on Aug 12, 2021 11:44:12 GMT -5
How are we on year infinity of this and half the board is still unable to comprehend that La Salle can't write its own schedule? Pretend for like 30 seconds you're Virginia or Syracuse or most of that list ... why would you play La Salle? What, at all, is there to gain?
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