The dissapointing thing is not that onlly three of the six division A teams have losing records, its the manner in which they have lost. Being blown out by top twenty five teams does not neccesiraly(sp) better prepare a team for winning the conference/ going to Nat'ls. Unfortunately our league will only send one team to nat'ls, so there will probobably just be a lot of bickering this summer over how difficult every one else's schedules are. I personally appreciate Karl Lynch's style of scheduling teams that we(UNT) are competitive with. Hopefully, it will pay off in the next few weeks.
Golden,
Let me stop you right in your tracks. I never post in regards to Texas A&M team matters, but I feel that I need to shed some light on your above post. If you look at A&M's history of scheduling top teams over the past years you will see success of varying degrees. That said, how was the coaching staff at A&M able to predict this year's squad when scheduling decesions are made in College Station up to two years in advance! Why was Michigan on our schedule? Well, we had a gentlemen's agreement with Coach John Paul that Michigan would return the trip to Texas for our trip to Michigan way back in 2002! Were we to tell JP that we did not want his ball club to come down to Texas for a game because we weren't sure what kind of team we were going to have?
Secondly, teams that aspire to be competitive at the national level, which A&M has been for the last five to six years, schedule tough, period, especially when for years, late nineties early 2000's, the teams in the LSA were not very strong (remember the old scores A&M use to put up on teams). Those out of conference games were very much needed to prepare our squad for nationals. Not many 23-2 scores in St. Louis.
And before you begin making statements such as the bolded one above, let me know how many conference titles you have played in, won, or MDIA national tournaments you have particpated in?
Now, back to the playoffs.......
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:13 pm