I said teams with a pulse, you adjusted that to:Not all "teams with a pulse" are power conference schools. I don't know (and see above, I don't really care) but did they reach out to decent mid-majors?
Their OOC consisted of complete and total crap. They played not one but two schools that are so insignificant that I've never heard of them and ESPN doesn't even have a link for them (Trinity Christian and Indiana University East). There are plenty of "teams with a pulse" between Trinity Christian and the "power conference schools". I'm not saying that I wouldn't include them unless they played Duke, just that being literally 0-fer the season in Q1 and only 2-0 in Q2 is a BIG problem for me when the math unequivocally says no.
Well that's a silly dodge, now isn't it? "But what about other midgets?" he protests. And if they had a few more midgets ... there wouldn't be much acquiescence. It's a challenge with that strain of logic, if they had a bit more or a bit more, they'll always be short for someone complaining. (The absolute body bag game, IU East and such, are their own sort of interesting side track, and if we want to talk about that separately, it's sort of interesting in all this)
The schedule was crap (and they were undefeated) in large part because teams like yours and mine were too chickenshit to schedule them. And if the answer is, "they just looked too good despite not being that good, and now that's the stain on their case," that is what it is, but it's OK to live like that.
It's funny, if you were less emotional about all this, it wouldn't me much of an argument, just a dull convo. But you get all riled up, and here we are.
