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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5596120, member: 10113"]
Good info, thanks.  the part about NET helping your conference more than you is probably my biggest beef.  If you look at St. John’s, #21 Florida, #22 Arkansas #23, Nebraska #24, You could make the argument that Florida doesn’t have a win as good as ours, Arkansas has two extremely close games against Winthrop and Samford, and St. John’s has not beaten a team as good as Tennessee.  Nebraska has a résumé that looks impressive until you look at how bad Creighton, Kansas State, and Oklahoma are this year.     Considering our resume against those four, I think it would be very difficult for anyone to say which one of those five teams is the best or has looked the best.   (I would lean Florida).

But as you said, the benefit is to their conference mates.  Right now the team that beat Tennessee and took Houston to overtime (with only losses to elite teams) would be a quad three win for a team who beats us at their home,   While a team that beats any of the teams I mentioned above, at home, gets a quad 1 win.  That’s pretty absurd when you think about it.

And since most objective people would say our resumes are very similar, teams get unfairly rewarded with more quad one opportunities.  Or punished with fewer, for no particularly good reason.

Right now, looking at their remaining schedule, Wyoming has the possibility of going into conference play as a quad 1 opportunity for road teams.   They lost to Sam Houston and played one team with a pulse, Texas Tech and lost.   The rest of the resume is garbage.

Doctahlexus said it best, if beating the hell out of cupcakes was the measure of what a good team is, certainly Kentucky would’ve beaten one of the good teams they played.

Btw: you tagged the response I made to fly rodder.  Just wanna make sure you know that was a response to him not you.!
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