I disagree somewhat. Sure, it would have helped if those three teams had better seasons. But the bigger problem with our schedule is how bad the bottom 8 or so teams were.
Certain things are tweaked occasionally, but it has been known for at least a decade with absolute certainty that playing too many games against Q4 teams is an absolute killer. That has not changed in a long time. You keep acting like scheduling is a mystery and no one knows how to do it, but there are dozens of coaches and schools that understand it. We were one of those schools until Moser arrived.
It is insane to me that you refuse to acknowledge the difference between overall SOS and noncon SOS. Our overall SOS is always going to be good (especially when we were in the Big 12) just by virtue of our conference. But our record against those teams was miserable.
and how many will they have in there conference schedule?
"By your logic"...stop using hyperbole. in your scenario, our overall SOS would not be even close to top 30.
Should they have to actually, you know, win some of those games? Or is going 2-10 (which is what we did against tournament teams last year) ok?
And they are far from the only ones. Lots of smart coaches understand it. Hell, I understand it despite never having worked in college basketball. All this info is out there, and it is malpractice for Moser to keep doing this even after it directly cost us a tournament berth.
We did win some of those games. We had 4 quad 1 wins. 5 quad 2 wins. All of our losses were quad 1.
Keep on spouting that lie in the last sentence of your post.
To be fair, one poster definitely does this. Also I think PM should schedule a slightly tougher non-con, especially since moving to the SEC. But the schedule has been tough, just have to win a few more game, but that doesn't have much to do with scheduling. Playing in the Big12 you know every conference game is probably going to be Quad 1.
Yea, I think one thing we can all agree on is that more wins = tournament team.
I think this has been WS’s point all along. It’s not that OU didn’t play enough good teams. It’s that the cupcakes were AWFUL.
Exactly. I am not saying we should schedule several elite teams each season. We aren't Kansas or Duke or UCONN or Gonzaga. But the "bad" opponents need to be teams in the 100-175 range, with no more than a couple 250+ teams. That should still get you just as many wins, and if you do happen to lose to a team in the 150s, then the problem isn't scheduling, it's the fact that you simply aren't very good.
And if teams like Arkansas and usc ended year ranked as expected our sos would have been in the 30’s as well. There is a point to not as many lower teams, but our supposed to be good teams hurt last years sos as well.
