Should Northern College Play Top 25 colleges on a spring trip

Frank


When you were in college what trips did you make and who did you play?

slow day huh, did they even have electricity when you were in college

It's pretty obvious that most Nothern are not out there to accumulate wins in order to make their records look attractive. They play the big teams as a way to challenge themselves.

Frank, I cannot imagine any competitive player who would not want to play the best. However, I wonder if the same can be said for some strong programs who want that 40+ win season as a goal regardless of the opponent. I guess you can't blame them in a way because wins are factored in at the end of the season and even though a win against a weaker teams does not carry much weight a loss anywhere does.

Frank (Andy)

Answer the question PLEASE---

And we had loads of electricity when I was in college

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Originally posted by rz1:
It's pretty obvious that most Nothern are not out there to accumulate wins in order to make their records look attractive. They play the big teams as a way to challenge themselves.

That could be one reason...I think a stronger reason is to get out of the snow and ice and 20 to 40 degree weather...

Granted some teams do schedule weak out of conference at times...and part of that in some schools may be to get that 40 wins but I don't think you can say it across the board. Also what conference you play in and geography also impact schedule. The bigger programs will probably try not to travel if they can get a home gate, I would think (which probably gives them some weak weekday opponents. A quick glance of the SOS for 2007 shows Nebraska #39 as the highest rated Northern School. Michigan State is 116, Michigan is 125 and Illinois is 133.

To be real it helps their RPI rating and they can go 0-10 down south but if they win their conference it means nothing---teams need to win within their own conference---going south helps them get better

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Originally posted by TRhit:
And we had loads of electricity when I was in college

Ahh...those were the days...

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Originally posted by TRhit:
To be real it helps their RPI rating and they can go 0-10 down south but if they win their conference it means nothing---teams need to win within their own conference---going south helps them get better

What about the southern teams that beat up on weaker opponents. In the long run is it better for those "powers" to "walk through" or end up splitting versus better teams?

TR,
Did you have to hold the kite?