BB Schedule
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Trying to decide between Glenville and Bluefield?
maybe MU basketball is not for you?
A buddy of mine is a Morehead grad. He texted me and said we are playing them in Huntington on Nov 26.
Good to hear. No reason not to play Morehead, Ohio and EKU every year... Close non conference games, especially during the week, are a plus for both sides.
Not true. They were trying to schedule Huntington High or Spring Valley.
Responses like this are just embarrassing. Gotta love "fans" finding ways to put down their own programs.
Gotta admit, Perk : We probably have enough circumstantial evidence to convict! Love Danny / time for a change……
The basketball program is open for criticism.
Last year -- 12-21 (4-14 in CUSA)... Two of those wins -- Milligan College, Bluefield State
Hopefully Dan has an amazing season and gets to pass on the torch on a high note after it is over.
As far as women's basketball goes, the Lady Pioneers of Glenville could give many lower tier Division 1 programs a run for their money. Didn't they win their respective national championship last year?
I do not think anyone is ever going to complain about getting Morehead on your home turf.
No, what is embarrassing is that during the DD era, Marshall has played NAIA (4 levels below DI) Milligan, NAIA Bluefield, NAIA Bluefield State, DII Concord, DII West Virginia Wesleyan, NAIA West Virginia Tech, DII KIng, Plus a plethora of teams that are at the very bottom of Division I, such as HBCUs, on-line fake colleges, and other small leagues like the Big South, Southland, and American Sun.
There is no question that, once again, we will hit the ground with a schedule filled with non-DI and bottom of DI programs. And that is embarrassing.
How do you consider NAIA “four levels below” D1?
That’s absurd on the whole. Stop talking.
He's spent so much time loving CUSA he doesn't know what low levels are anymore.
I NCAA Division I
2 NCAA Division II
3 NCAA Division III
4 NAIA
But what an absurd thing to argue about. Are the cupcakes DD chooses to play this or that layer of cupcake?
How about we play, like most teams, a 100% DI schedule?
How about we get serious about basketball, and fire DD and everyone in the building?
2 NCAA Division II
3 NCAA Division III
4 NAIA
But what an absurd thing to argue about. Are the cupcakes DD chooses to play this or that layer of cupcake?
How about we play, like most teams, a 100% DI schedule?
How about we get serious about basketball, and fire DD and everyone in the building?
I can live with a small in-state cupcake during finals week... A lot of teams do that just so they don't have to practice for 7-10 days by themselves. So if DD wants to invite Bluefield, WV Wesleyan, Concord, etc to Huntington for a quick Thursday night game (which is basically a scrimmage that counts as a win) so be it... But playing 2-3 teams below DI every year should not happen.
From the google machine
"The well funded NAIA teams are much better than D3 as they should be. NAIA can offer 24 scholarships (Plus as many as they want for non varsity players or redshirts. Plus lower academic standards for athletes in NAIA allows helps NAIA get more D1 ability players."
My bad. His point is still kind of valid though. You want to have a UPike and Davis and Elkins for exhibitions that's fine. They're just glorified scrimmages. However Milligan and Bluefield had no business being part of the actual OoC slate last season.
Agree.
Also, given the perception of the team, does need to step up competition if they are to be taken seriously.
This is literally like getting caught with fourth rate hooker and arguing with the wife that really it was a third rate hooker. It misses the point.
Play a 100% DI schedule , every year. And play the “bus and gym” bottom DI leagues like the Big South, etc, only rarely.
Remember the SBC is very weak in basketball.
Play a 100% DI schedule , every year. And play the “bus and gym” bottom DI leagues like the Big South, etc, only rarely.
Remember the SBC is very weak in basketball.
This is absolutely true... No program should benefit more this year from the move to the SBC more than mens basketball in terms of wins and losses. We return everyone and the SBC is a worse league than CUSA in hoops.
While we are on the SBC and scheduling... Take a gander at Georgia State's non-conference schedule -- Coastal Georgia College, Texas AM-Commerce, Toccoa Falls College, Middle Georgia State... Talk about cupcakes. I guess the balance is they do play Auburn, Georgia Tech and Rhode Island.
I agree with Sam, in regard to the scheduling, but currently, whoever we schedule really doesn't matter, as the program simply isn't taking the sport seriously. We've addressed this topic for a few years now, and until they take basketball as a serious sport, where they desire to compete at the highest level of college basketball, then whether they play UCLA or KMBC (Kentucky Mountain Bible College), it really doesn't matter. All said, the SBC is yet another one bid league. It all comes down to whether you can get 'hot' and go on that 4-5 day run. Then, if fortunate, you can play another one bid league in the Tuesday night 'play-in' game.
It really does seem like our previous administration or may Dan just really doesn't try to be a top tier program. I mean look at football and how we schedule. There's usually a pretty exciting game or two every year during the OoC slate. Most of the OoC MMB slate is pretty boring and we darn sure never get them at home.
How on earth are you going to energize your fan base when you really don't give them any type of product to get excited about. Sure. Sure. The die hards will show out, but the goal is not to reach those fans. You have them. It's to bring in the casual fan.
Crying about charter flights and not having a practice facility and then giving the fans Milligan is pretty arrogant and pathetic.
It doesn't matter which one is better. You're still arguing on who's the tallest midget. It doesn't matter if NAIA is better than D-III or even D-II. No school from any of those divisions should be a part of our OoC slate.
You're also a sports junkie that needs an intervention if you're paying that much attention to NAIA and D-III to argue which one is better. Unless you're a parent of a player on one of those teams.
Nonsense. At least as far as collegiate athletics go in West Virginia, there are many Herd fans who also follow(ed) certain Division II schools (or even NAIA) like a University of Charleston, WV Tech (back in the day), Glenville State, etc., who play Div. III schools. Playing a school that is the Div. II national champion in men's (or women's) basketball would certainly be appropriate for the season opening for example.
For the exhibition game(s)? Sure. The actual OoC slate. No.
I don't care who on here follows whatever other teams in this state. Playing non D-I teams in the actual OoC is detrimental to the program.
Love to see us have a presence in the Cincy area...Xavier, UC, Dayton or Miami!
