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Message: [QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 126087, member: 16"] I think if SU scheduled one true road game a year early in the season a lot of the criticism would quickly go away. It seems that's the one thing these other three teams do. Given that we have three less slots on our schedule for OOC games, that to me would be enough. Keep the neutral site games throw in one early season (think first six games of the year) at a team's home court, and you get rid of a lot of the criticism. Kentucky has an OOC rivalry game with Indiana each year, which we will have with G'Town when we move to the ACC. UNC and Duke are pretty slick with their scheduling, as each of them has scheduled away games against teams they know they'll beat (UNC with Evansville and Portland, and Duke with Temple). Duke and UNC also have the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, which we only had this year, and it just happened to be a home game. I think the move to the ACC is actually going to quell a lot of our scheduling critics, because we'll be playing one game OOC against G'Town, and one OOC against a solid Big Ten opponent each year. We may even schedule something with UConn/St. John's as well in NYC, which pretty much gives us Duke's schedule each year. I'll be interested to see if this scheduling philosophy comes to fruition. I'd love to go back to the days where SU schedule at least one true road game against the likes of Tennessee, Arizona, Mizzou, etc... Good teams, mid to high level BCS schools. Give me one of those games a year along with a neutral and I'd be happy. I think the critics would be as well. The MSG home court argument has always bothered me because it's not SU's fault that so many preseason tournaments are held in the largest city in the country that also happens to be in the same state as SU's campus. It's like saying California playing in LA is a home game. It especially rings true, as both LA and NYC have well known college teams that reside in those cities. If Cal ever played a neutral site game in LA, there wouldn't be one person saying it was a home game for them, which is why I've never understood that argument for SU. [/QUOTE]

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