Damn, was hoping for that get back tomorrow
No f***ing way.
Watching Miami OH for the first time this season and these niggas looking to score within the first five seconds of every possession?!
Pretty obvious that Miami OH has to win their tournament to make it
If they get left out every non-P4 + Big East + Gonzaga team should fold their men's basketball program. No point in competing anymore
Holmes spread word last spring that Miami was willing to travel to two or more power-conference opponents with no expectation of a future return game in Oxford. Coaches who responded to Holmesā messages told him they only wanted marquee matchups against top-tier opponents or low-risk games against small-conference pushovers ranked 275th or worse.
The feedback was similar when Holmes lowered his sights and began targeting elite teams from the Atlantic 10, Mountain West and other top mid-major leagues. Some coaches saw no benefit in scheduling Miami. Others didnāt have open dates available. The few who initially expressed interest got cold feet when Holmes sent contracts for them to sign.
By the end of the summer, Holmes became desperate enough to call some of his best friends in the business and beg them, āCāmon, man! Do me a solid! Help us out!ā They each apologetically told Holmes that they couldnāt help him because Miami was exactly the type of opponent they sought to avoid, projected to finish outside the top 100 nationally yet plenty dangerous enough to dish out a damaging loss.
Miami intentionally kept slots open on its schedule into the fall, hoping in vain that some name-brand team would have a game fall through and would call in a panic. Only in early October did the Redhawks finally give up and unveil a non-league schedule featuring three NAIA opponents and an array of matchups against the dregs of Division I.
āI was told no by probably 75 to 90 teams, from obviously all your power conferences, to your A-10s, to your Mountain Wests,ā Holmes told Yahoo Sports. āI guess you could say we were in scheduling no manās land. We didnāt fit the profile of what anyone was looking for.ā
Utterly embarrassing for the sport
