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Post by hchoops on Jan 13, 2020 12:01:01 GMT -5
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Post by Tom on Jan 13, 2020 12:29:13 GMT -5
From the article Hard to imagine any Patriot League school paying anyone to come. Maybe with greater distance between schools, it's harder to get people to do good old fashioned home and homes |
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Post by bison137 on Jan 13, 2020 13:32:31 GMT -5
From the article Hard to imagine any Patriot League school paying anyone to come. Maybe with greater distance between schools, it's harder to get people to do good old fashioned home and homes The way this study calculated buy games, the PL definitely has hosted some buy games. Any time a school hosted a game in a MTE, the study classified that as a buy game - where the host was considered a buy game host. Thus Bucknell, for example, got credit in 2018 when they hosted Ball State as part of a MTE. Also I know Bucknell on at least a couple of occasions has used a little bit of the money they received from multiple big-money away games to attract a team to Sojka. For example, a couple of years ago Bucknell played at Arkansas, North Carolina, Maryland, St. Joes, and VCU. (Also Richmond and La Salle, but I don't think those were buy games.) For those games, they got roughly $300,000. They took a small amount of that money and negotiated a deal with Vermont, where Vermont agreed to visit Sojka twice while Bucknell only traveled to Vermont once. It is possible other PL schools have done something similar. |
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Post by hchoops on Jan 13, 2020 13:38:19 GMT -5
Excuse the ignorance, but what is MTE ?
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 13, 2020 13:49:49 GMT -5
I just hope HC wasn't a cheap date when they played at Maryland. All things considered that game may be the best or one of the best performances of the season, so one or two buy games per season are OK with me. The team played loose and easy, without the weight of the world on their shoulders.
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Post by CHC8485 on Jan 13, 2020 15:13:35 GMT -5
MTE = multi-team event.
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Post by hchoops on Jan 13, 2020 15:29:31 GMT -5
Thanks, 84-85
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Post by bison137 on Jan 13, 2020 19:52:33 GMT -5
And in NCAA parlance, a MTE has a few special characteristics. IF a team plays in a "tournament" that qualifies under the rules as a MTE, then that team is allowed to play 27 regular season games plus up to four games in its MTE - thus a possible 31 games. If a team does not play in a MTE, then it is limited to 29 games. There are several requirements for a tournament to be an official MTE: 1. Max of four games per team. 2. All games are played within 14 days of the first game. 3. No more than one participating team per conference. 4. No team can play in the same MTE more than once every four years. Since the MTE was created back around 2005, a huge number of them have been created and have gone rather far afield from the original intent. Thus the NCAA and its members are looking at some new rules for next season. Right now, one issue with the rules is that the games can be played 3000 miles apart from each other, and most of the participating teams may never even be in the same state with most of the other teams. Also there are so many MTE's that many have had to fill in open scheduling spots with random D2 and D3 games. For example, Lehigh participated in a MTE that was thrown together very late in the process. Two of its three games were vs weak D3 teams (Misericordia and Cairn). Games in this event were scattered among Lehigh, Fresno, Sacramento, Moraga CA (St. Mary's), and Rock Hill SC (Winthrop U.). There was never more than one game played on the same date. |
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Post by timholycross on Jan 13, 2020 20:32:13 GMT -5
Surprised only 3 of the Big West buy in host games were Hawaii's....figured half of them would be theirs.
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