BURN THE HORSE
Did some more checking last night on the Sun Belt Conference's scheduling criteria. It appears there are no formal penalties if schools don't comply. Likely, there will only be some sort of public or private reprimand. When the Sun Belt tried this a few years ago, schools had a choice. They could either play a schedule in which the opponents' three-year RPI average equaled out to an average of 150 or better or they had to finish in the top 150 of the RPI at season's end. But that policy also had no teeth. In one of the final seasons it was in place, one school did not have the 150 schedule. And they finished outside the top 150 in the season-ending RPI. And if anything happened to that school, it was never announced.
Listening to yesterday's media day interviews, it doesn't appear there's a lot of enthusiasm for the rule this time around either.
