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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 120415, member: 966"]
I get it. I'm not saying the teams we've been playing 'stink.' I'm saying there's a persistent aroma. It's being reported and commented upon 'as fact,' over a long period of time. That doesn't help our program, if you believe public+media perception has anything to do with anything.

And saying something "doesn't always help the team" assumes you can see diverging paths of reality. How can you possibly know if something helped the team or didn't? If we scheduled 'tough' early, and lost all of those difficult games, how do  you know that wouldn't help us come tournament time? To avoid those 'upsets?' How do you know that one season of early tests wouldn't have resulted in a final four instead of a flameout?

If the objective is to pad JB's resume and credentials, well-done. That's what we accomplish, yearly.

What i've proposed, since long ago, is akin to what's been suggested above. Play those "BCS Schools." A win against a bad Michigan/UCLA/Arizona State team on CBS looks better to the media and the fans than a win over Marshall on All-Access. I'm not even saying we should go in whole-hog. Pepper them in. Even one more, per year. Or, play the tougher early tournaments. One that features a team projected to be better than us. Get out of NY - early - so they can't blather on about that spurious 'stat.'

What [I]does[/I] stink is the constant need to defend ridiculousness. If we were Michigan State fans, we'd applaud the scheduling and mock Syracuse's. Why can't you look at it from the outside. It's just a question. A discussion among committed fans.
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