Tennessee SEC schedule thus far

[tw3301]

oh boy, you better beat UK by more than 34 then.

Seems unlikely at this point.

 

[GE Nole]

Yeah we have 3 Saturday-Monday turnarounds in this last month. All three of the Monday games are on the road.

What gets me is that not all teams do. We had 3 or 4 two-day turnarounds in ACC play this year. Clemson has none. Miami has 1 I think.

 

[tw3301]

What gets me is that not all teams do. We had 3 or 4 two-day turnarounds in ACC play this year. Clemson has none. Miami has 1 I think.

I think they do it to prepare teams for the tournament, but with travel it's kind of dumb.

 

[Montana81]

The SEC doesn’t even try to hide the fact that ratings play a big role in the scheduling.

 

[jhmossy]

I watched Joe Harris beat Steph for the 3 point contest.

 

[UNC71-00]

All you can do is win the next game. The rest will take care of itself.

But if you want to talk about scheduling bull crap, lets take a closer look at Kentucky's schedule. No its not about who they have played, its about how the SEC front offices gave them the best layout possible in terms of rest and preparation.

First I want to say that what I am about to discuss doesn't have ANYTHING to do with winning or losing a game, so its not a "built in excuse".

The SEC schedule of games are on Tuesday & Wednesday in the week and everyone on Saturday. Majority of games on the weekdays are on Tuesday, normally in a 4:3 ratio or 5:2 ratio in comparison to Wednesdays.
Kentucky (due to ESPN ratings) plays all of their weekday games on Tuesdays. However, this is where it gets fishy.... Every Saturday game they have played was against an opponent coming off a Wednesday game (even though Tuesday has more games). So Kentucky gets an extra day of rest/prep for their Saturday opponent every week!

Some wonder how is that an advantage to Kentucky, they have to turn right around and play on Tuesday. Since everyone plays on Saturday, that is the exact same amount of prep time for both teams. So that is fair on both ends. Where it doesn't become fair is if Kentucky is travelling for their Tuesday affair.
Every time Kentucky has had a Tuesday ROAD game, they are playing an opponent that is coming off a road game on Saturday, so that means the opponent is still traveling before their game on Tuesday. Kentucky doesn't play one Tuesday road game where the opponent is staying home from playing at home on Saturday.

How did all of it go unnoticed? And i said i don't label it as an excuse, just unusual and obvious preferential treatment for Kentucky from the SEC offices.

That Greg Sankey is a great dude, huh?

 

[GE Nole]

I think they do it to prepare teams for the tournament, but with travel it's kind of dumb.

I agree with both those statements.

 

[GE Nole]

I watched Joe Harris beat Steph for the 3 point contest.

Those two put on a show.

 

[Quavarius]

I can’t stand it. Earlier this year we played a Sunday-Tuesday turnaround while Clemson, our opponent, hadn’t played in 8 days. 8 days!

That’s ridiculous for a governing body that purports to be about student athlete safety and well being. Imagine a football team playing Saturday and then Thursday while their opponent had two weeks off.

Virginia had 7 days off when Duke played them at Charlottesville.

 

[jhmossy]

Virginia had 7 days off when Duke played them at Charlottesville.

Too rusty

 

[Quavarius]

Too rusty

Ahhh

 

[Blue_White_KY]

All you can do is win the next game. The rest will take care of itself.

But if you want to talk about scheduling bull crap, lets take a closer look at Kentucky's schedule. No its not about who they have played, its about how the SEC front offices gave them the best layout possible in terms of rest and preparation.

First I want to say that what I am about to discuss doesn't have ANYTHING to do with winning or losing a game, so its not a "built in excuse".

The SEC schedule of games are on Tuesday & Wednesday in the week and everyone on Saturday. Majority of games on the weekdays are on Tuesday, normally in a 4:3 ratio or 5:2 ratio in comparison to Wednesdays.
Kentucky (due to ESPN ratings) plays all of their weekday games on Tuesdays. However, this is where it gets fishy.... Every Saturday game they have played was against an opponent coming off a Wednesday game (even though Tuesday has more games). So Kentucky gets an extra day of rest/prep for their Saturday opponent every week!

Some wonder how is that an advantage to Kentucky, they have to turn right around and play on Tuesday. Since everyone plays on Saturday, that is the exact same amount of prep time for both teams. So that is fair on both ends. Where it doesn't become fair is if Kentucky is travelling for their Tuesday affair.
Every time Kentucky has had a Tuesday ROAD game, they are playing an opponent that is coming off a road game on Saturday, so that means the opponent is still traveling before their game on Tuesday. Kentucky doesn't play one Tuesday road game where the opponent is staying home from playing at home on Saturday.

How did all of it go unnoticed? And i said i don't label it as an excuse, just unusual and obvious preferential treatment for Kentucky from the SEC offices.

What drives a person to do this kind of research? I’ll never understand it. I didn’t do this much research for papers in college.

 

[tnvol47]

What drives a person to do this kind of research? I’ll never understand it. I didn’t do this much research for papers in college.

Clicking the screen on my phone for 15 minutes sure took everything I had in me.

 

[Blue_White_KY]

Clicking the screen on my phone for 15 minutes sure took everything I had in me.

Doing it on your phone makes it even worse. On a computer is much easier IMO. That could be understandable.
But could you tell me the “WHY” did you do this research? What drove you to do this? Were you looking for one thing and made these observations?
Seriously just curious. Not trying to insinuate anything. My wife makes all kinds of misconceptions which is why I put these last sentences in.

 

[tnvol47]

Doing it on your phone makes it even worse. On a computer is much easier IMO. That could be understandable.
But could you tell me the “WHY” did you do this research? What drove you to do this? Were you looking for one thing and made these observations?
Seriously just curious. Not trying to insinuate anything. My wife makes all kinds of misconceptions which is why I put these last sentences in.

My Kentucky friend mentioned they play every Tuesday and Saturday in SEC games. So I looked at their schedule on my phone via scrolling week by week in conference games.. By doing so, I noticed they never played a team on Saturday that also played a Tuesday game. So I looked a bit deeper and figured out the rest and thought I would share my findings. No need to get worked up since I said it’s not a built in excuse, just an unusual observation.

 

[kyjeff1]

Doing it on your phone makes it even worse. On a computer is much easier IMO. That could be understandable.
But could you tell me the “WHY” did you do this research? What drove you to do this? Were you looking for one thing and made these observations?
Seriously just curious. Not trying to insinuate anything. My wife makes all kinds of misconceptions which is why I put these last sentences in.

Obsession. Don't worry, next year, the UT fans will be back in hiding and someone else will do more research to show how unfair it is.

UT fans should be the last people to complain about scheduling this year. Sheesh.

 

[BasketBallJunkie-UK]

I think if UT had 1 more day of rest, as did UK, Schofield and Grant wouldn't have been knocked down so much and could probably have blocked PJ's 1/2 hooks....