Lamar vs. Huston-Tillotson Predictions?

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[ForeverADog]

We'll all get free chicken again!

[badndn]

Blowout of Epic proportions followed by another letdown loss to ______...Fill in the blank! (ULL)

[coachacola]

Last year Lamar only won by the score of 80-57, I seriously doubt it'll be that close this year.  Should be another 40+ win for Lamar. 

What's the deal with only one D1 opponent at home for all of November and December?  Looking at Texas' schedule, of their first 10 games, 8 are home games and the other 2 neutral games.  I know Lamar has a lot harder time getting good opponents at home, but at least schedule all D1 opponents.  Is Roc that desperate for wins?

[puddin tane]

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Last year Lamar only won by the score of 80-57, I seriously doubt it'll be that close this year.  Should be another 40+ win for Lamar. 

What's the deal with only one D1 opponent at home for all of November and December?  Looking at Texas' schedule, of their first 10 games, 8 are home games and the other 2 neutral games.  I know Lamar has a lot harder time getting good opponents at home, but at least schedule all D1 opponents.  Is Roc that desperate for wins?
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[i]Is Roc that desperate for wins[/i]?

i think thats an understatement!!!!

[geezer]

Personally I would rather see Lamar loose at home to Div I teams from equal or stronger conferences than to ever see another game against a lower division school.  I think Nichols has actually improved themselves by almost playing no home games out of conference and going to upper tier conference schools.  That won't work in Beaumont because if Lamar was much under .500 it would take almost the entire conference schedule to get a decent crowd to the games.

[bigred360]

It may be helping the team get better but Nicholls State is among the lowest in attendance in all of DI basketball. A large crowd for them is about 1K.

So Beaumont is no different that any other place. Win against good competition and the fan's will attend.

I do agree, I would rather see Lamar loose at home to a quality opponent than watch them against a non DI school.

[badndn]

Nicholls is not making any money off of it's home games. LU is. Therefore it is more financially benificial I am sure for LU to play home cupcakes and more financially benificial for Nicholls to play road power conferences. Just my opin!

A few years back we had TT in here and ArkSt., BYU, always had Rice. I am guessing next year we will get ULL and Rice at home, maybe even Tulane. That works for me. Be nice to see UH in the Montange.

[ForeverADog]

This team is 0-11. St Gregory beat them in OT and put up 94 on them. This will get ugly quick.

[Bruce]

While I think we'd all like to see LU playing quality competition at home, it just doesn't seem possible to get this done any more.  The "power" conference schools won't play anyone from a smaller conference on the road, instead choosing to pad their records by playing 8-10 home games before the conference season starts.  Sadly, the NCAA hasn't--and won't--put a stop to this by forcing teams to play a balanced home/road schedule (and the various rankings for college BB vastly underestimate the effect of home court advantage: Sagarin's, for example, assume a *four* point advantage for home court.  Think any coach in America wouldn't voluntarily start any game down 8-0 to move it from a road venue to a home one?).  Even the better rated mid-major teams don't want to play teams from the lower-rated D-I conferences any more.

About the best we can hope for is some 1-for-1 deals with teams in slightly-higher-to-comparably-rated conferences.  I do admit I'd rather see that than the parade of Chickenmania games that are on the schedule this year, and wish Roc/Tidwell would work toward that goal... but that said, if my choices are playing 3/4 of our out-of-conference games on the road versus playing D-IIs and other such scrubs at home, I'd rather play the scrub teams.  I'd hate to see a nine-game home schedule for season ticket holders, and think it would affect the number of buyers adversely.

As for a prediction?  As others have said, this one's going to be ugggggly.  125-57.

[geezer]

To get better teams to come to Beaumont we might have to do more of what they did to get Tech to come which was a two for one deal.  Yes conference only home games would hurt but I don't think it has to get that bad.  When it comes to at large berths for the NCAA the first thing that comes up is quality wins.  Don't care if home, away or neutral site.

[bigred360]

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To get better teams to come to Beaumont we might have to do more of what they did to get Tech to come which was a two for one deal.  Yes conference only home games would hurt but I don't think it has to get that bad.  When it comes to at large berths for the NCAA the first thing that comes up is quality wins.  Don't care if home, away or neutral site.
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Have there ever been a at large berth for the NCAA from the SLC? Not going to happen.

[westendfirst]

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Personally I would rather see Lamar loose at home to Div I teams from equal or stronger conferences than to ever see another game against a lower division school.  I think Nichols has actually improved themselves by almost playing no home games out of conference and going to upper tier conference schools.  That won't work in Beaumont because if Lamar was much under .500 it would take almost the entire conference schedule to get a decent crowd to the games.
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So you want us to model our program after Nicholls?  Hahahahaha!!!!  They avg about 43 fans at their home games.

[geezer]

No, if I were going to model LU after another program it would be Gonzaga as far as how they have improved their schedule compared to the remainder of their confernce.  The part that I would not like is Gonzaga plays several of their "home games" in Seattle which might be like Lamar playing home games in San Antonio to get the big name schools to come play them.  The reference to Nicholls has to do with their improvement in competing in the SLC, they used to be a bottom feeder now they are competive.