re: I see CJJ has padded the basketball schedule for this year.

Even with his most hyped team (on paper), Jones put together a dog shite schedule last season. I said that 3 months before last season that the schedule was horrible and got blasted for it.

Poor OOC scheduling is unexcusable. It...

(A) leaves you no margin of error going into conf. play (especially if you lose a few OOC games like last season)

(B) builds no excitement for your program in first two months of the season. Casual basketball fans aren't showing up to watch LSU battle the North Florida's and SWAC/MEAC schools of the world.

LSU's best season in the last 20 years was 05-06. That team was 8-5 going into SEC play. However, they were battle tested from games against West Virginia, Northern Iowa, Cincinnati, Ohio State, UConn.

Dale didn't hide from big OOC matchups. Jones has to be forced into them.