App State gets BYE as a travel partner. We got royally screwed. There better be a mandate for teams scheduling a second game each week they play only App State.

FYI, there's still 5 games TBD, all of which involved the in-state rivalries.

Wednesday December 30, 2015
Appalachian State at UL Monroe
UALR at South Alabama
Arkansas State at Troy
Georgia Southern at Texas State
Georgia State at UT Arlington

Saturday January 2, 2016
Appalachian State at UL Lafayette
UALR at Troy
Arkansas State at South Alabama
Georgia Southern at UT Arlington
Georgia State at Texas State

Thursday January 7, 2016
UL Lafayette at UALR
UL Monroe at Arkansas State
South Alabama at Georgia Southern
UT Arlington at Appalachian State
Troy at Georgia State

Saturday January 9, 2016
UL Lafayette at Arkansas State
UL Monroe at UALR
South Alabama at Georgia State
Texas State at Appalachian State
Troy at Georgia Southern

Thursday January 14, 2016
Appalachian State at Arkansas State
UL Lafayette at Georgia Southern
UL Monroe at Georgia State
UT Arlington at Troy
Texas State at South Alabama

Saturday January 16, 2016
Appalachian State at UALR
UL Lafayette at Georgia State
UL Monroe at Georgia Southern
UT Arlington at South Alabama
Texas State at Troy

Thursday January 21, 2016
UALR at Texas State
Arkansas State at UT Arlington
Georgia State at Appalachian State
South Alabama at UL Lafayette
Troy at UL Monroe

Saturday January 23, 2016
UALR at UT Arlington
Arkansas State at Texas State
Georgia Southern at Appalachian State
South Alabama at UL Monroe
Troy at UL Lafayette

Thursday January 28, 2016
Appalachian State at Troy
Georgia Southern at UALR
Georgia State at Arkansas State
UT Arlington at UL Monroe
Texas State at UL Lafayette

Saturday January 30, 2016
Appalachian State at South Alabama
Georgia Southern at Arkansas State
Georgia State at UALR
UT Arlington at UL Lafayette
Texas State at UL Monroe

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
UL Monroe at UL Lafayette

Thursday, February 4, 2016
UL Lafayette at Appalachian State
South Alabama at Arkansas State
UT Arlington at Georgia Southern
Texas State at Georgia State
Troy at UALR

Saturday, February 6, 2016
UL Monroe at Appalachian State
South Alabama at UALR
UT Arlington at Georgia State
Texas State at Georgia Southern
Troy at Arkansas State

Tuesday, February 9, 2016
UT Arlington at Texas State

Thursday, February 11, 2016
Appalachian State at Texas State
UALR at UL Monroe
Arkansas State at UL Lafayette
Georgia Southern at Troy
Georgia State at South Alabama

Saturday, February 13, 2016
Appalachian State at UT Arlington
UALR at UL Lafayette
Arkansas State at UL Monroe
Georgia Southern at South Alabama
Georgia State at Troy

Tuesday, February 16, 2016
UL Monroe at UL Lafayette

Thursday, February 18, 2016
UALR at Georgia State
Arkansas State at Georgia Southern
UL Lafayette at UT Arlington
UL Monroe at Texas State
South Alabama at Appalachian State

Saturday, February 20, 2016
UALR at Georgia Southern
Arkansas State at Georgia State
UL Lafayette at Texas State
UL Monroe at UT Arlington
Troy at Appalachian State

Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Georgia State at Georgia Southern

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Appalachian State at Georgia Southern
UL Lafayette at Troy
UL Monroe at South Alabama
UT Arlington at UALR
Texas State at Arkansas State

Saturday, February 27, 2016
Appalachian State at Georgia State
UL Lafayette at South Alabama
UL Monroe at Troy
UT Arlington at Arkansas State
Texas State at UALR

Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Arkansas State at UALR

Thursday, March 3, 2016
UALR at Appalachian State
Georgia Southern at UL Monroe
Georgia State at UL Lafayette
South Alabama at UT Arlington
Troy at Texas State

Saturday, March 5, 2016
Arkansas State at Appalachian State
Georgia Southern at UL Lafayette
Georgia State at UL Monroe
South Alabama at Texas State
Troy at UT Arlington

GAMES YET TO BE SCHEDULED
UALR at Arkansas State
Georgia Southern at Georgia State
UL Lafayette at UL Monroe
South Alabama at Troy
Texas State at UT Arlington

This reeks of the membership disagreeing, so they make the most basic schedule possible and instead of having many slightly-peeved members, they rather deal with the nuclear meltdown from one member while appeasing everyone else.

We better get a good explanation for this crap.

Wow. That is really bad. By a quick count, that's 10 times where App plays a game on short rest (1-2 days, usually 1) that had a bye on the previous SBC game day.

Small consolation is that we get four Thursday games vs. teams that had to play on Tuesday, though two of those are on the road.

I also like the fact that our away games are back to back in the same state. It should reduce travel and we may find that to be worth the trade off.

I was able to update the main schedule page to show the conference schedule. I'll update it further once we have announced our non-conference games. I also noticed what hapapp mentioned in that all of our travel games at the very least are games within the same state, so I do at least applaud the Sun Belt for that, as it should help us with travel costs to a degree.

http://www.yosefscabin.com/sports/baske ... sschedule/

Gillin needs to go into the next set of conference meetings and start throwing down that we won't stand for this crap. first Football and now Bball

mtnjax wrote:Gillin needs to go into the next set of conference meetings and start throwing down that we won't stand for this crap. first Football and now Bball

We first have to assume that he disapproves of the schedule.

I'm not sure what it is some of you expect the Sun Belt to do. The conference has two basketball-playing schools in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia. We're the outlier. Until the conference either adds a school within our geographic footprint or subtracts a member, we're always going to be the travel partner of the school called "open date." We knew this going in.

It's not that hard. Start conference play a week later & move some games to Monday/Tuesday to give App a more level playing field. It can't be perfect, but it can be better.

mtnjax wrote:Gillin needs to go into the next set of conference meetings and start throwing down that we won't stand for this crap. first Football and now Bball

What happened to football?

kiddbrewer wrote:

mtnjax wrote:Gillin needs to go into the next set of conference meetings and start throwing down that we won't stand for this crap. first Football and now Bball

What happened to football?

Football schedule is fine. From a competitive standpoint, we get four games with extra rest, and no games where our opponent gets extra rest. From a marketing standpoint, we get at least two primetime national TV showcase games. In short, we got the exact schedule you would expect from a team the Sun Belt expects to be one of its headliners this year.

The discontent comes from people discovering that the days of every home game being at 3:30 pm on Saturday are over.

EastHallApp wrote:

kiddbrewer wrote:

mtnjax wrote:Gillin needs to go into the next set of conference meetings and start throwing down that we won't stand for this crap. first Football and now Bball

What happened to football?

Football schedule is fine. From a competitive standpoint, we get four games with extra rest, and no games where our opponent gets extra rest. From a marketing standpoint, we get at least two primetime national TV showcase games. In short, we got the exact schedule you would expect from a team the Sun Belt expects to be one of its headliners this year.

The discontent comes from people discovering that the days of every home game being at 3:30 pm on Saturday are over.

That's what I figured. I am personally excited about the prime time games on Thursday night, especially one of them against Georgia Southern.

T-Dog wrote:It's not that hard. Start conference play a week later & move some games to Monday/Tuesday to give App a more level playing field. It can't be perfect, but it can be better.

Moving games to Monday for other schools would take them off of Saturdays right? I wouldn't support less Saturday games for any school as those are easier for students and alumni to attend.

I think we are without a travel partner right now and that was the price of admission. I'm not thrilled about it but I'd rather be at the dance without a partner than not even invited to the dance and end up slumming it with Western.

Under the category of "you learn something new every day". I am slightly north of 50, been an ardent sports fan all of my life, pretty much know sports inside and out (reminded of that by my wife when I forget life's other details), but I must admit that up until a few months ago I had never heard of a travel partner. How exactly does this work? If we had a travel partner do we actually travel together and share costs?

It simply means that teams are grouped by their proximity to one another. So, when we go to play Troy in the same trip we will bus to USA, UL and ULM are paired, ASU and UALR, etc. It cuts down on travel costs. Since we have no one in our vicinity, teams get a bye rather playing another game against our nonexistent travel partner.

hapapp wrote:

mtnjax wrote:Gillin needs to go into the next set of conference meetings and start throwing down that we won't stand for this crap. first Football and now Bball

We first have to assume that he disapproves of the schedule.

App pushed back hard against this schedule. It fell on deaf ears.

AppGrad78 wrote:I'm not sure what it is some of you expect the Sun Belt to do. The conference has two basketball-playing schools in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia. We're the outlier. Until the conference either adds a school within our geographic footprint or subtracts a member, we're always going to be the travel partner of the school called "open date." We knew this going in.

He knows now but he was still at Mizzou when this was put into place. He is not hAPPy and he and Fox will be talking to the PTB about this.....however he was encouraged that some/any of us were upset enough to write the SBC to express our concerns.

ASU has 3 games Home on Saturday where their opponent has NO game scheduled for earlier in the week.

ASU has 3 games Away on Saturday where their opponent has NO game scheduled for earlier in the week.

ASU has 2 games Home on Saturday where their opponent has a game scheduled for earlier in the week on Tuesday.

ASU has 2 games Away on Saturday where their opponent has NO game scheduled for earlier in the week on Tuesday

NO other team has that issue.

I just posted this so those reading could really understand what we were talking about and how we got screwed.

asutrnr81 wrote:ASU has 3 games Home on Saturday where their opponent has NO game scheduled for earlier in the week.

ASU has 3 games Away on Saturday where their opponent has NO game scheduled for earlier in the week.

ASU has 2 games Home on Saturday where their opponent has a game scheduled for earlier in the week on Tuesday.

ASU has 2 games Away on Saturday where their opponent has NO game scheduled for earlier in the week on Tuesday

NO other team has that issue.

I just posted this so those reading could really understand what we were talking about and how we got screwed.

Perhaps, but we really won't know the impact until we play the schedule. I do like the fact that the travel scenario is improved. I also seriously doubt that anyone will really care that we don't like the schedule. It works for the other ten schools and I doubt they will express much more than the recognition that it isn't very favorable to us.