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Who do you want us to play then??? It's an absolute master schedule for building RPI if you ask me. Rhode Island, Texas, Oklahoma at home (all potential top 50 RPI teams but winnable). Minnesota most likely neutral. Possible Arizona on the road. Memphis is the only bad game I see so far but they couldn't have known that it was going to be that bad when they scheduled it. Add on top of that an improved conference, and I think it's a great schedule for the team we have and what we are trying to do.

I'm not saying it's going to be a bad schedule (though potentially, it could be) , I'm just saying that looking at it right now, it's not strong.

Is it possible Texas is a top 50 rpi team? Sure, but I wouldn't bet on it. I can't stress enough how terrible Texas did last year with the talent they had. They lost 2 of their top 3 players, but still should have more talent this year. Will it be enough to make them jump more than 100 spots in the RPI ranking? I don't think so, but it's possible.

Oklahoma has a long ways to go as well. While I think they have better coaching than Texas, they don't have near the talent. I'm hoping Oklahoma and Texas just break the top 100 rpi.

Rhode Island and Minnesota/BYU are both probable resume builders, but outside of that we have no confirmed teams I would call resume builders right now on the non-conference schedule.

As far as bad teams go, I consider any team outside of the top 100 bad and outside of the top 150 terrible. Texas, Oklahoma, and UMass all finished outside of top 150 and that's not including Memphis or the fillers we haven't heard of.

Would I say it's a bad schedule? No, in fact what better way to make a statement to fans than to slaughter big name teams even if they aren't any good. I just don't think the schedule is that strong. Not yet that is...

This post was edited on 5/25/17 at 4:41 pm