Losing to win? That’s the strategy of one tiny Georgia college Aka Carver College. Interesting article. They’re a tiny Christian college who schedules low level D1 teams and gets walloped each time (ie 70 point loss vs FIU). The coach’s belief is this makes them stronger in the long run, provides experience and money, and will result in them being the best in the state in 5 years. My belief is that this is wrong for both Carver and the D1 schools. Besides the D1 walk ons, neither team (nor the crowd) benefits from an extremely lopsided game. What think you?
This has been Texas Southern's strategy for the last decade or so. Play almost exclusively P5 and high mid majors on the road in the non conference, with the idea being the comp in conference will seem much easier and if they get the auto bid avoid the 16 seed due to SOS.
Happens all the time in football. You are correct about basketball. I forget which forum I’m in when reading threads. Teams spend big dollars getting non-conference teams to show up for an away football game where we don’t reciprocate in kind.
