tseugnekillib Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I count 30 (14 non-conference + 16 A10)games. Am I missing a home non-conference game? I thought the ticket package was for 17 home games, two of which would be exhibition games. Home non-conference: (6games) UNC, Ole Miss, Toledo, Missouri State, Western Illinois, Houston, ??????? Home A-10: (8games) Xavier, Dayton, Rhode Island, Charlotte, George Washington, Richmond, LaSalle, Duquense. Road non-conference: (10games) Utah State, Pacific, SIU-C, Loyola-Chicago, Houston, Texas A&M, Lamar, La Tech. Road A-10 (8games) Xavier, Dayton, Rhode Island, Temple, St. Joes, Fordham, UMass, St. Bonaventure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NashvilleBilliken Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 That's a very solid schedule. If we take care of business, we can't hear anything from the commitee come March. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I think Miami(OH) is supposed to be in there somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 is there are no road or home games with BCS conferences that will be played next year. Maybe its the effect of not being very good for a few years now or the effect of the A-10 but I fear we are heading to mid-major hell where you can't get home and homes with the big-boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 UNC and Ole Miss are BCS games we're playing at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 next year we will likely have no BCS home games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tseugnekillib Posted July 30, 2006 Author Share Posted July 30, 2006 We have three BCS games this year...UNC, Texas A&M and Ole Miss. Perhaps we start a couple of new BCS series next year. Also, I'm hoping having our own arena will give SLU a clean slate for scheduling whomever in November and December. Time will tell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 And how would you know that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 1) The two home games we have this year against BCS teams are return games from last season. Those contracts end this season. 2) The road game against Texas A&M is part of a tourney, with no return game 3) We rarely get the first home game in a home and home with a BCS team. West Virginia was the last BCS team to start a series with us and play here first and they were terrible back then. Of course, backwards Billikenguest is right that anything could happen (we could go undefeated next year and draw 20k for all home games and of course things would change) but I'd be willing to bet that we approached nearly every BCS team before this season and asked for a home and home (probably volunteering to start there this season) and got nothing. Instead, this year we struck home and home deals with Toledo, Utah St., Missouri St., Houston, Pacific, SIU and Loyola. All those games, except Houston, need to be returned next year. Those teams are, in general, fine for RPI purposes but there isn't a big name in the bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 You have no way of knowing if any deals have been put together or are in the works for next year. Just looks like you are trying to find something to complain about. Why don't you wait to see what happens before you start complaining. At this point complaining is just idiotic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 to point out that next year we will likely have no BCS games at home? OK. Quite frankly I did wait to see if somehow we'd get a BCS team or two added to the schedule this year but that hasn't happened. I could've waited till a year from now when we are playing the return game for all these series and then pointed out that there are no BCS games but its really not that hard to realize that the majority of next year's non-conference schedule is already set with the return games we've set-up for this year. Maybe the magic fairy will call West Pine next summer and offer our coaches a home and home with a BCS or top 25 program and be willing to start that series in St. Louis but I have my doubts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Why are we playing Houston twice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basketbill Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 apparently needed a home and an away game, so did we...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basketbill Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 looks solid, with SIU, MO st, UNC, Miss St, Tex A&M, Houston twice, this looks like a tough schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tseugnekillib Posted July 30, 2006 Author Share Posted July 30, 2006 SLU is playing Houston twice because because both teams needed an additional quality home game this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 It is now a fact that teams are allowed 27 games plus one exempt tournament. Since our exempt tournament is 3 games that means we will have 30 games. Backwards guest has listed 30 games (14 non-cnference) plus there has long been word of a game at Miami (OH). So basically, that game must have fallen though or something is wrong in Guest's list. As it stands now 16 of our 30 will be on the road and Western Illinois is the only "buy" game. While I have already lamented that this schedule does not bode well for future home games vs. BCS conference teams, this schedule will be very RPI friendly. Most of these teams will finish the season with a winning record and with more road games then home, our RPI will be very strong IF WE WIN. However, a lot of the same arguments that Packer, Nantz and others on this board liked to make regarding the Valley could very well apply to us at the end of the year. Carolina is the only real "name" team on here. We will need a good showing against them if we end up as a bubble team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tseugnekillib Posted July 31, 2006 Author Share Posted July 31, 2006 while it is yet to be confirmed....I was told that five of our first seven games are on the road. I'm assuming three of those first five games are at the Texas A&M tournament. Because of problems with matching calendar dates, perhaps Toledo swapped places with Miami-Ohio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenmetz Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I'm just going to stay out of this conversation.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
former_d1 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 > >Instead, this year we struck home and home deals with >Toledo, Utah St., Missouri St., Houston, Pacific, SIU and >Loyola. All those games, except Houston, need to be returned >next year. Those teams are, in general, fine for RPI >purposes but there isn't a big name in the bunch. That is a really nice list of schools to play. Toledo will be good with 4 starters back? Utah St. will be one of the top 3 teams in the WAC again this year. Missouri St. seems to always have our number. Houston is no joke with Penders (sp?) SIU is a 25 team that we seem to beat in stl just about everytime I think we may have scheduled some home losses...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I know we had some kind of deal with Miami. It might be a home-and-home starting next season, though I could've sworn we had them this year. Because of the "27 game" rule, it seems like they won't be on the schedule this year. Anyway, Katz and his think tank over at ESPN are calling Toledo the favorite in the MAC West, and thinks Miami is down a little this year: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2532368 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I would be very, very surprised if we don't have at least one major program on the home schedule for next year, despite the current contracts. We have plenty of time to hammer out a deal with someone for next year's schedule, and the fact that we don't have anything with BCS schools renewing says that we'll have a lot of $$$ freeing up to get something worked out. And as always, our coaches will be calling Mizzou pretty frequently to get that series back on the calendar. Soderberg and his staff know the current state of our schedule and contracts for next year better than anyone, and I'm sure they're working on something. Who needs a magic fairy when you've got cash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Interesting point about the new arena being open in 2007 - is this correct? If so, I can not imagine that SLU won't want to bring in a big name or two to open the building that season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I'm confused. I thought most home and home contracts didn't involve cash but rather a "we'll travel to you if you travel to us" agreement. I thought cash was only paid in the guaranteed buy games. Meaning, how will cash help us get a big name team to travel to St. Louis? Far and away the best way for us to get big name teams to travel to St. Louis is to win and become a better national draw (for t.v. or the return game). Hopefully this is the group of guys to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tseugnekillib Posted August 1, 2006 Author Share Posted August 1, 2006 cheese.... I don't understand your comment "the new arena being open in 2007".....where did that come from? It is my understanding that the (May) 2008 SLU Commencement days will be the first events in the new arena. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Tbill - sorry but I could have sworn that a previous post in this thread made mention of this being a reason for us having big names on the schedule. However, when I went back to look through the posts I can not find it - so my bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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