Sun Belt looks to boost its standing

joshuca · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:02 am

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The Sun Belt Conference will attempt to change its perception with the NCAA tournament selection committee by trying a drastic scheduling maneuver to enhance its power rating.

The Sun Belt will announce Monday afternoon that it will demand all of its teams, beginning in the 2011-12 season, to play non-conference games against teams that have a three-year combined power rating that is within the top 150 or if that school finished with an RPI inside the top 150 in the previous season.

The Sun Belt will also forbid teams from playing non-Division I games and will stress that the member schools should average at least the national average of 5,038 fans a game. The Sun Belt had only one member average 5,000 fans a game over the last five seasons. The league will announce that it will aid in helping to promote attendance as best as it can.

Doesn't look like we will be playing stAte anytime soon, unless things turn around very quickly!

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UCAMonkey · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:21 pm

How will this move help ASU and other SBC members have more than 5 or 6 home games a season?

GoldilocksWasYummy · **Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 6:57 am

Um pretty sure this is about basketball not football

treyuca · **Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:11 am

I think he knew that. And I think he's right.
The top 150 teams in the country aren't going to be clamoring to travel to Sun Belt schools. This is a strange idea, and unless the SB team actually wins a lot of these games it's only going to hurt their win/loss even more.

joshuca · **Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:16 am

I was thinking the same thing Trey. I don't know how they plan on getting home games against these top teams when they aren't top teams themselves.

joshuca · **Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:34 am

Brady not a fan of Sun Belt scheduling criteria

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Arkansas State basketball coach John Brady is livid.The Sun Belt Conference announced sweeping changes to its scheduling criteria for men’s basketball on Monday, and ASU’s third-year coach is clearly unhappy with the direction the league has chosen to take beginning next year.

Crump1 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:32 pm **Posts:** 737

GoldilocksWasYummy wrote:

Um pretty sure this is about basketball not football

Yep and he obviously didn't understand that.

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