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Message: [QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 125873, member: 16"] The common gripe is that SU doesn't leave the state of New York until January, or that we schedule no games at other team's courts. Disregarding the quality of competition we play, I decided to take a look at UNC, Duke, Kentucky and Syracuse over the past three seasons and those teams scheduling tendencies. What I found out is Syracuse isn't far off from their scheduling in terms of how many we play away from the dome. You can argue that we schedule weaker competition, but looking at neutral court games, etc... we're roughly the same. We also schedule about three less OOC games a year simply because of the Big East schedule. That's three less OOC games we could schedule as away games. If you go to SU's scheduling tendencies before the Big East went to the 18 game schedule and I think you'd find we were schedulign more away games each year. Duke and UNC also schedule some cheapy "away" games most years as well, which adds to their "away" game total even though the games are complete lay ups played in locales like Greensboro and Asheville. I think amount of OOC games is a determining factor in our scheduling. We need the revenue from those OOC games, so we need to schedule more home games as compared to teams that are playing 15 or 14 games OOC a year, instead of 12. I also think the other point is, do you consider NYC SU's home away from home? I would argue that if you consider it for SU you'd have to make a similar distinction for these other three team's as they draw just as well as SU in neutral games at MSG. So if you say SU is playing a de facto home game at MSG, I feel like the same thing needs to be said about UK, UNC, and Duke as they draw just as well there. Here are their schedules over the last three years for comparisons. Make of it what you will. [ATTACH=full]320[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]321[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]322[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]323[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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