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[QUOTE="M2MPrinciples, post: 5263151, member: 928"]
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't recall that many teams ducking those sub-300s in the RPI era. They were (and still are) needed to get everyone reps and build confidence, so in pretty high demand. What I do know happened is that savvy programs, especially at the top, realized they could do that just as effectively against that middle third of programs, in essence midmajors and low-majors who were picked to finish at or near the top of their conferences, but still needed the money. They could do all those things while mitigating the RPI hit.

Those power conference teams would have someone on staff (either an assistant, DOBO or administrator) find those schools and negotiate deals to bring them to campus. One or two might turn out to be worse than you thought when you scheduled them, but on the whole it was a good strategy.

With free transfers, the rosters are much less predictable, so like I mentioned it's more challenging to work in that framework, but not impossible.
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