[zachthompson]

I wish Liberty would stop playing these non Div ! schools & lower tier schools like Binghamton. Considering that the Big South is the the top of half of conferences when it come to rpi for the 2nd time in 3 seasons & considering we have one of the best small programs in the country we play weaker schedules than some of the MAC, SunBelt, Conf USA, West Coast teams. Perhaps many of the big schools don't want to play us because since are football & men's basketball, both at a conf level & school level are comparatively weak - so we are a noname? Of is because we are good & they don't want to get upset? I see Chattanooga, Montana, UCSB - 3 of the other excellent small programs - also play comparatively weak schedules. This make me think that to attract more challenging opponents we will need to be in the American East, A 10, Colonial & or get or other programs to catch up?

Why do y'all think?

[ATrain]

The problem is that schools outside the top 10 don't want to play us b/c they see a loss to us as "really bad." Thats why UVA won't be on our schedule again for a few years. Chattanooga has the same problem, as does UCSB and UW-Green Bay. However, I wouldn't say non-conference schedule is all that weak...JMU is a good mid-major program that earned an at-large last year. Xavier is perhaps the 2nd-best A-10 team. UNC and VT are in the ACC. I think our schedule strength could be improved, but I wouldn't say its a weak schedule.