Process of elimination: next year's Nov tournament

[Sean Miller Fan]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bl...vents-mte-neutral-site-showcases-thanksgiving

This is the only site that I know of that tracks this stuff. There are 5 ACC teams still not confirmed for a tournament next year and Pitt is one. Here are the possibilities considering these tournaments had at least 1 major D1 team this year and do not have an ACC team for next year:

Jamaica

Cayman Islands

Cancun

Virgin Islands

Honolulu (Christmas week)

Vancouver (new next year)

MGM Resorts (Las Vegas)

Emerald Coast Classic @ JWF's JUCO (TCU won this year)

Barclays Center Classic

Las Vegas Classic (Christmas week)

There were also a few made-up "tournaments" which weren't really tournaments but just a series of cupcake games which qualified. IU, GT, Rutgers, Illinois, and Kentucky hosted "tournaments" like that this year.

Also, there's the "tournaments" like the Gotham Classic and Miami Invitational which are just 1 pre-scheduled neutral-site game with 3 cupcakes at home. Louisville plays Memphis in the Gotham this year and Syracuse plays Kansas in Miami.

 

[levance2]

I'd bet on Barclays or Paradise Jam. Stallings has participated in both of those events recently. The wildcard option would be Vancouver since we've got two Canadians on the roster.

I would also guess since he is potentially playing for his job next year, we will end up in an event that allows us a decent chance of winning. Paradise Jam had Houston, Colorado, and Wake Forest this year. That's a bad field but at least it had P6 teams. That seems like an attractive fit.

Jamaica had a weaker field with only FSU representing a P6. Emerald Coast had TCU and Maryland, and would be arguably the only area of interest for recruiting. Diamondhead is not nearly as good as Maui and has only Miami and USC this year.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I'd bet on Barclays or Paradise Jam. Stallings has participated in both of those events recently. The wildcard option would be Vancouver since we've got two Canadians on the roster.

I would also guess since he is potentially playing for his job next year, we will end up in an event that allows us a decent chance of winning. Paradise Jam had Houston, Colorado, and Wake Forest this year. That's a bad field but at least it had P6 teams. That seems like an attractive fit.

Jamaica had a weaker field with only FSU representing a P6. Emerald Coast had TCU and Maryland, and would be arguably the only area of interest for recruiting. Diamondhead is not nearly as good as Maui and has only Miami and USC this year.

Or we could do one of those made-up tournaments to just get 4 wins. I think this is the year of our summer foreign trip so they may not want to do to 2 big trips within a couple months.

 

[levance2]

Or we could do one of those made-up tournaments to just get 4 wins. I think this is the year of our summer foreign trip so they may not want to do to 2 big trips within a couple months.

Or Stallings will travel the world before Pitt fires him. 13 OOC road games!

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Or we could do one of those made-up tournaments to just get 4 wins. I think this is the year of our summer foreign trip so they may not want to do to 2 big trips within a couple months.

Or Stallings will travel the world before Pitt fires him. 13 OOC road games!

Not a bad idea. Can we make 100K off each? This can help fund the buyout

 

[Pittfan85]

Or we could do one of those made-up tournaments to just get 4 wins. I think this is the year of our summer foreign trip so they may not want to do to 2 big trips within a couple months.

I think we should let you schedule pitt’s non conference so it looks like this.

RMU
St Francis
@Auburn
@ Kentucky
Temple
Duquesne
Wisconsin
Neutral Villanova
YSU
@ Kansas
Butler
Detroit

That is about what you always pined for, right?

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Or we could do one of those made-up tournaments to just get 4 wins. I think this is the year of our summer foreign trip so they may not want to do to 2 big trips within a couple months.

I think we should let you schedule pitt’s non conference so it looks like this.

RMU
St Francis
@Auburn
@ Kentucky
Temple
Duquesne
Wisconsin
Neutral Villanova
YSU
@ Kansas
Butler
Detroit

That is about what you always pined for, right?

No. In today's environment with teams playing 1-3 true home and homes, this is what mine would be

4 exempt tournament games
Duq
RMU
@WVU
Big Ten
UConn
@ Tennessee
Cupcake
Cupcake
Cupcake

If the exempt tournament is too difficult, I'd drop 1-2 of the UConn/Ten type of games