Southern Wesleyan @ Furman (Nov. 15)

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Evansville is a D-I team from a strong mid-major conference, of course they listed the Kentucky game. The Furman-Southern Wesleyan game is an exhibition. It's not counted as a win by the NCAA for post-season purposes, and so why should SW count it as a loss?

I've heard Coach Richey's explanations on the podcasts about why these get scheduled . . . I understand what he said and don't have a solution other than money, which is in short supply as it is. But be that as it may, hopefully fans will support the exhibition and hopefully the team gains valuable practice experience.

Not sure why you bothered being redundant on the Evansville subject, I really don't care if SW lists it or not but the fact that they want to side step the game like it never happened means I give them zero respect
In your mind it may be an exhibition but in reality it is a real game that counts on our official record books

Well your comment made no sense because Evansville and Kentucky are both D-I, it was obviously a real game. The fact it was expected to be lopsided was irrelevant.

Non D-I teams do not count in the eyes of post-season committees which means they are de facto exhibitions. The fact they occasionally beat sorry D-I teams is irrelevant (albeit embarrassing for that D-I team).

Exactly. de facto exhibitions for teams that want to buy wins to pad their records and break NCAA records in games that don't really count for either team. Occasionally as in 6 wins and 461 losses last year for the non D-1's that participate in this charade.

And you are proposing what exactly?

Play an all D-1 schedule replacing these non D-1 games with away games against major colleges. This would give us more than $250,000 in additional revenue as well as national TV exposure. Take that revenue and buy some home games against D-1 teams to equalize the number of home and away games.

There are no shortage of major colleges willing to buy home games. They need them as badly as we do and believe it or not most of them are not afraid to play Furman or any other SoCon team. The fact that Wofford scheduled 6 majors last year despite being favored to win the conference is proof of that.

There are plenty of mid-majors who need to play away "money games" to sustain their programs and this would also give us the opportunity to play "revenue neutral" home and home series games against out of area mid-majors like Bucknell, Navy, George Washington, William and Mary etc. Games that would actually count towards our NCAA resume and be of much greater interest to our fans than beating a 3 win North Greenville team ranked #300 in D-2 (Bennett rankings) or an 80 point win against a hapless non-scholarship bible college.

There is not a single Furman fan who would not rather have our schedule resemble what you have laid out here.

But there is a difference in wanting something and the reality of the situation, again your questions are answered by Bob Richey on the podcast series, there is no more gray area in wondering why our schedule is exactly the way it is.

http://blogs.furman.edu/mensbball/category/podcast/