Comments on: The Latest Stupidly Brilliant Idea…

By: NUHF

NUHF — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:08:00 +0000

I’d have made the same comment had he not died this past week. People who work with me know I often quote the TV Series Kung Fu, and I called one of my interns (Who was about 89 pounds soaking wet as a sophomore at NU) “Grasshopper”.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:06:11 +0000

Did you have to mention Carradine?

By: NUHF

NUHF — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:45:42 +0000

It’s fair to no one, so it’s fair to everyone? Didn’t David Carradine say that to Grasshopper on Kung Fu?

Hey if we can get a guarantee game from the CAA to play Towson on Mars in January, we’d probably take it!

Monarch has some good points about playing the “single games” at LitosFest 2011. One of these games is typically played in the December slot, and are likely to draw fewer fans. Play 2 of the singles at this festival and it might work.

I don’t think NU would ever host – getting our Arena for a full weekend is impossible with Men’s hockey, Women’s Hockey and our local hockey tenants.

By: W&M Monarch

W&M Monarch — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:50:23 +0000

I think it could work in a few ways.

1) With the current 18 game conference schedule play Tema A would play 2 (or 4, but that would be too many games I think) of the teams with which they are not scheduled to play a home and home that year. Make scheduling partners rotate every 4 years (instead of the current 2 years) and it could work. A 3 or 4 day event with a total 12 games would be a blast.

2) Cut the league schedule back to 17 games, leaving Team A five teams with which they will not play a home and home. Team A could play 3 of these non-home-and-home teams at the neutral. A total of 18 games over 3-4 days would be even more fun, but I think the required 5-year rotation of scheduling would be a slight drawback.

3) Go to a 19 game schedule, leaving Team A with 3 non-home-and-home opponents. Team A would play all three of these teams over a 3 or 4 day event. Under this scenario schedules could rotate every year (which I like), and the event would be awesome as a rotating event to promote the CAA brand in places like Baltimore, Philly, New York, and even Boston and Atlanta.

By: mglitos

mglitos — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:34:34 +0000

It’s like you’re a CPA, NUHF. Dream a little, my friend. Of course there’s no fair way to do it, which implies nobody gets a true advantage and thus is fair. Right?

You can shoot holes in this as much as you can shoot holes in any schedule-making endeavor. If you’re going to have people complaining about the schedule–as they do right now–may as well do something else a little groundbreaking, no?

Maybe you get W&M on a neutral court, maybe you don’t. Perhaps you also get ODU on a neutral court instead of in The Ted. Or, NU gets $40K from the league instead of a Wednesday home game against Towson.

By: NUHF

NUHF — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:15:18 +0000

Ok, how do you determine who plays whom? That’s the hard part.

If I’m NU, I want W&M on a neutral court (we can’t win in the Burg), I want Mason on a neutral court (we’ve never won in the CAA at the Pat Center) and I want JMU when we have to go down there (save the travel).

I think anyone south of DC would want NU on a neutral court, save a trip to Boston in the winter.

There’s no real fair way to do it, unfortunately.