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Saturday, August 05, 2006
Another clueless scribe
A guy by the name of Mark Katz is not happy with Dayton's schedule for the upcoming season.

Katz, who writes for the Dayton Daily News, says a schedule with games against the likes of Louisville, Creighton, Pittsburgh and North Carolina is not challenging enough and complains about the Flyers' home slate, which includes Yale (last season's RPI 197), South Carolina State (218), Western Carolina (264), SMU (269), Grambling (282) and North Carolina A&T (324), as if Duke and Kentucky are willing to go there to play.

He is entitled to his opinion certainly. But doesn't he owe it to his readers to at least exhibit a semblance of a clue?

Why do we care about this column, you ask? Because after dissing the six home games mentioned above, he goes on to write:
I'm not even going to complain about those big games with Holy Cross and Austin Peay. You've got to have some games on the schedule everybody knows you're going to win.
Hey Mark, here is a newsflash: Last season Austin Peay had an RPI of 155, a number dragged down by its conference schedule. Out of conference AP was 79.

Holy Cross' RPI was 111, after the Crusaders' third 20-win season in the past four.

Dayton, 14-17 a year ago, finished with an RPI of 183, despite playing in the higher ranked Atlantic 10.

Given the players Holy Cross has back, and the trouble Ralph Willard's teams are known to cause with their defense, especially against teams not familiar with the Crusaders, this game is anything but one "everybody knows you are going to win."

As our buddy Matt might say, Holy Cross fans who are angry about Katz's column can e-mail him at mkatz@daytondailynews.com

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