[81alum]

I know we have a bunch of challenging preseason games and obviously the conference schedule has some brutal games on it...

But I wonder if scheduling cupcakes where there is this much of a talent disparity is useful.  I wonder if beatable opponents that are a bit more than scrimmage quality might not do more for preparation than playing the little sisters of the poor.  Like wouldn’t playing teams in the 50-100 range, wouldn’t let the team work on things they need to work on, but also provide more than token resistance to doing what we want to do. 

BC

Northern Colorado would not have looked like quite such a cupcake based on last season's record--I imagine they are pretty disappointed in the way they started.  USF did give us an appropriate challenge, though, and Northern Colorado stayed close to USF so maybe tonight will be more competitive than it seems.  And I think it is wise to play some games which give our frosh a chance to get a lot of minutes as they adjust to the college level. 

I also think that sometimes they schedule to get experience against some unique aspect of a team--don't know if that is the case tonight.  But they might schedule a team just to get experience playing against the Princeton, or just to work on perimeter defense, or just to test our zone offense, etc.  Maybe Northern Colorado has some characteristic we want to practice against.

[81alum]

I know we have a bunch of challenging preseason games and obviously the conference schedule has some brutal games on it...

But I wonder if scheduling cupcakes where there is this much of a talent disparity is useful.  I wonder if beatable opponents that are a bit more than scrimmage quality might not do more for preparation than playing the little sisters of the poor.  Like wouldn’t playing teams in the 50-100 range, wouldn’t let the team work on things they need to work on, but also provide more than token resistance to doing what we want to do. 

BC

Northern Colorado would not have looked like quite such a cupcake based on last season's record--I imagine they are pretty disappointed in the way they started.  USF did give us an appropriate challenge, though, and Northern Colorado stayed close to USF so maybe tonight will be more competitive than it seems.  And I think it is wise to play some games which give our frosh a chance to get a lot of minutes as they adjust to the college level. 

I also think that sometimes they schedule to get experience against some unique aspect of a team--don't know if that is the case tonight.  But they might schedule a team just to get experience playing against the Princeton, or just to work on perimeter defense, or just to test our zone offense, etc.  Maybe Northern Colorado has some characteristic we want to practice against.