I thought there was a game scheduled around Nov 28th, give or take a day…
I agree, I think in another thread there was a game or two posted but I can’t find them.
There are a couple more games - but I was asked not to share the schedule awhile back - so not sure how folks got their hands on this so far. lol I think Bronco fans will be pleased. Let’s just say this year’s squad will need to step up and I believe they can.
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We should be days away from the Wcc announcing the conference schedule, they did so on 8/2 last year.
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I have the Pre-Season line-up. Some really good teams to prepare us for the WCC this year. Here is a good interview of Herb reflectig on the last season and transitioning to this year.
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Sort of a classic Herb interview: 13 minutes of not really saying anything. But reading between the lines, he sounds excited about Cam and Christoph for next year and pretty confident about the talent level and cohesion so far. Usually he says something like, “we are just getting started and don’t really know who we are yet” or some coach-ism to moderate expectations. He noted that there are 8 newcomers but also said that they had done well to replace the full starting 5. That’s basically as much brio as you ever get out of Herb in a pre-season interview from what I’ve seen the past several years.
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I would rate this as a B+ schedule overall. The Broncos are going to be pushed with 10 games against high major or solid mid-major competition (and after last season, I’m tentatively including SJSU in that category). Only 5 real cupcake squads.
The major downside is that Utah State is the only fun home game. Though Stanford, Cal, and SJSU are all accessible at least. As someone who can only make a handful of games, I’ll probably go root on the Broncos at one of the local away games rather than do a 4 hour roundtrip to see them take on Menlo College.
I don’t really blame Herb or the coaches much. The plague of one-off neutral site games continues. And getting Cal, Stanford, and Wazzu all as away games seems like just bad luck on the schedule. I assume those will all be returned in Leavy next season, making next year’s non-con potentially pretty fun.
In sum, the schedule is much, much better than it was in Herb’s first years and will give this team meaningful challeges. It’s really just the lack of good home games that keeps me from piling praise on this one.
Edit: Wazzu is a neutral site game, so no return game next year unless, presumably, they start a new agreement.
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It looks like 5 neutral site games with the two in Florida, and the three against New Mexico, Washington St and Duquesne.
To go 3-2 with 5 new starters may be daunting, but looking forward to what this team can do. At minimum, I’d love to see a split in Florida, and capture 2 of 3 versus the opponents mentioned above.
It’s a challenging non conference schedule even if we had returning starters, but their is incoming talent plus Tilly, Tongue, and BK. We just need to find that chemistry.
I’ll be interested to see if any of the true freshman contribute this season or redshirt.
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Agree with your assessment 100%. Unfortunately, they have to play the tougher games in neutral territory or they get penalized with quality of the win. Which I think is really dumb of the NCAA to force teams to neutral sites than at either competing teams homecourts. It detracts from building attendance to home games.
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I expect Cam to have a solid year and will be looked at for his leadership as well.
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My reading comprehension must be really getting poor. Yale is also listed as a home game. That should be a pretty fun one that I would gladly attend. I’m still not going to heap praise on the home schedule, but Yale and Utah State are, at least, two good mid-major opponents. And having local away games at Cal and Stanford is worth something.
The only game on the schedule that bothers me is Menlo College. Weak opponent at home in the middle of the OOC slate. Of course, tough to get anyone of substance to travel here after Thanksgiving and likely during their home stretch of the school semsester, so you get what you get as long as you blow them out.
I can’t recall what our arrangement is with Cal and Stanford, but, given what is happening (What do the Pac 12 and Rome have in common? They both fell in three days.), who knows what their future holds. Cal might be crazy enough to just call it all quits–their athletics is a shell of its former self.
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I just don’t think you can expect to bring in high quality opponents at home as a mid major. It just doesn’t happen anymore. It sucks, but it is what it is!
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