neck
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Post by neck on Mar 4, 2024 15:04:44 GMT -8
What are people expecting / hoping for in our 2025 schedule? Here are my assumptions: - The trick will be scheduling enough quality opponents to give us a good RPI.
- There are not a lot of quality opponents on the west coast, and the ones that exist are now in other conferences: B1G (Oregon, USC, UCLA), Big XII (Arizona, Arizona State), or the ACC (Stanford, Cal).
- Am I right in assuming that the Beavers will attempt to schedule the former Pac 12 members in lieu of a conference regular season? If so, what are the chances that those teams will be willing to travel to Corvallis for an away series, especially given all of the other demands they'll have on their time (i.e., traveling to the midwest for B1G members, traveling to the southeast for Cal and Standford)? Are we going to end up with a schedule where the crappy teams come to Corvallis and we have to travel to SF, or LA, or Phoenix to play quality opponents?
Am I thinking about this right? Aside from the above teams, what other western US teams are good competition for us?
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cake
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Post by cake on Mar 4, 2024 18:08:46 GMT -8
I'm guessing we step up midweek opponents, UW, Oregon, other pac-12 leavers, schedule bigger teams for Surprise instead of New Mexico and teams like that. Regular season will be tough, especially near the end, but I'm sure we can manage it. Play Wazzu during what would have been conference tourney.
Lots of solid Big West teams, a couple Mountain West teams, plenty in Texas, hopefully Gonzaga gets better again, Grand Canyon and some others.
And RPI is changing to heavily favor road games so if we've got to become a barnstorming team, that helps out a lot.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Mar 4, 2024 20:18:45 GMT -8
What are people expecting / hoping for in our 2025 schedule? Here are my assumptions: - The trick will be scheduling enough quality opponents to give us a good RPI.
- There are not a lot of quality opponents on the west coast, and the ones that exist are now in other conferences: B1G (Oregon, USC, UCLA), Big XII (Arizona, Arizona State), or the ACC (Stanford, Cal).
- Am I right in assuming that the Beavers will attempt to schedule the former Pac 12 members in lieu of a conference regular season? If so, what are the chances that those teams will be willing to travel to Corvallis for an away series, especially given all of the other demands they'll have on their time (i.e., traveling to the midwest for B1G members, traveling to the southeast for Cal and Standford)? Are we going to end up with a schedule where the crappy teams come to Corvallis and we have to travel to SF, or LA, or Phoenix to play quality opponents?
Am I thinking about this right? Aside from the above teams, what other western US teams are good competition for us?
Personally, I am hoping that Oregon State makes every effort to recreate a Pac-12 schedule in 2025: Arizona @ Arizona State Cal @ Oregon @ Stanford @ UCLA USC Utah @ Washington Wazzu Unlike other sports, Oregon State is actually a draw that travels well compared to most other teams. Plus, Oregon State's will help with RPI. It is almost impossible to find another team in the West Coast that could sub in for Oregon State on a schedule. Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington are going to be very desirous to buoy their Big Ten schedule with their terrible RPIs with Oregon State and the Beavers' lofty RPI. Wazzu is probably also in the same boat. Cal and Stanford may not be so desirous to schedule someone difficult after a grueling ACC slate, but there is not anyone remotely comparable in Northern California. The Big 12 teams may not be desirous to play Oregon State. If the Pac-12 teams will not schedule Oregon State, schedule top seven Big West teams. And find a way not to schedule the worst team in the Big West like this year. |
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Post by jimbob on Mar 4, 2024 21:36:02 GMT -8
How about scheduling some of the southern good weather current Pac-12 teams on the road in late Feb. and March when our weather is crappy---no need for them to reciprocate by coming up here and they won't want to anyways that time of year. That way we get some good competition/RPI in good weather early in the season. Win-Win for them and us!
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Mar 4, 2024 21:42:24 GMT -8
How about scheduling some of the southern good weather current Pac-12 teams on the road in late Feb. and March when our weather is crappy---no need for them to reciprocate by coming up here and they won't want to anyways that time of year. That way we get some good competition/RPI in good weather early in the season. Win-Win for them and us! Fewer home games is not a win-win for us. |
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Post by beaverinsider211 on Mar 5, 2024 12:30:39 GMT -8
What are people expecting / hoping for in our 2025 schedule? Here are my assumptions: - The trick will be scheduling enough quality opponents to give us a good RPI.
- There are not a lot of quality opponents on the west coast, and the ones that exist are now in other conferences: B1G (Oregon, USC, UCLA), Big XII (Arizona, Arizona State), or the ACC (Stanford, Cal).
- Am I right in assuming that the Beavers will attempt to schedule the former Pac 12 members in lieu of a conference regular season? If so, what are the chances that those teams will be willing to travel to Corvallis for an away series, especially given all of the other demands they'll have on their time (i.e., traveling to the midwest for B1G members, traveling to the southeast for Cal and Standford)? Are we going to end up with a schedule where the crappy teams come to Corvallis and we have to travel to SF, or LA, or Phoenix to play quality opponents?
Am I thinking about this right? Aside from the above teams, what other western US teams are good competition for us?
All great points. I think it will actually end up being a tough schedule. With PAC12 schools moving to the Big 10 and 12 those will actually help RPI. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Mar 5, 2024 17:43:47 GMT -8
What are people expecting / hoping for in our 2025 schedule? Here are my assumptions: - The trick will be scheduling enough quality opponents to give us a good RPI.
- There are not a lot of quality opponents on the west coast, and the ones that exist are now in other conferences: B1G (Oregon, USC, UCLA), Big XII (Arizona, Arizona State), or the ACC (Stanford, Cal).
- Am I right in assuming that the Beavers will attempt to schedule the former Pac 12 members in lieu of a conference regular season? If so, what are the chances that those teams will be willing to travel to Corvallis for an away series, especially given all of the other demands they'll have on their time (i.e., traveling to the midwest for B1G members, traveling to the southeast for Cal and Standford)? Are we going to end up with a schedule where the crappy teams come to Corvallis and we have to travel to SF, or LA, or Phoenix to play quality opponents?
Am I thinking about this right? Aside from the above teams, what other western US teams are good competition for us?
All great points. I think it will actually end up being a tough schedule. With PAC12 schools moving to the Big 10 and 12 those will actually help RPI. The RPIs of the four teams leaving for the Big Ten are going to drop like a stone. |
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Post by irimi on Mar 5, 2024 18:42:06 GMT -8
What are people expecting / hoping for in our 2025 schedule? Here are my assumptions: - The trick will be scheduling enough quality opponents to give us a good RPI.
- There are not a lot of quality opponents on the west coast, and the ones that exist are now in other conferences: B1G (Oregon, USC, UCLA), Big XII (Arizona, Arizona State), or the ACC (Stanford, Cal).
- Am I right in assuming that the Beavers will attempt to schedule the former Pac 12 members in lieu of a conference regular season? If so, what are the chances that those teams will be willing to travel to Corvallis for an away series, especially given all of the other demands they'll have on their time (i.e., traveling to the midwest for B1G members, traveling to the southeast for Cal and Standford)? Are we going to end up with a schedule where the crappy teams come to Corvallis and we have to travel to SF, or LA, or Phoenix to play quality opponents?
Am I thinking about this right? Aside from the above teams, what other western US teams are good competition for us?
I think the 2024 National Champions won’t have trouble scheduling quality opponents. |
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Post by flyfishinbeav on Mar 5, 2024 21:19:09 GMT -8
It's crazy when you look at the top 25.....and where the schools are. 8 of them are in the Carolinas! Indiana dropped out, so we are the only northern team.
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