The thought was nice

Update: MT Web site reporting the announcement will be made this afternoon.

BURN THE HORSE
Everyone knew it was coming, most likely this week. But the Sun Belt is going to announce its decision regarding RPI and scheduling. And instead of giving it to all its beat writers last week, it gave it to ESPN first. Here's the story:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5724780
Good idea, bad execution. The Sun Belt had a similar policy in place a few years ago and it didn't work. What if a school just can't find anyone else to play? Can you schedule a team outside the criteria in those circumstances? What if you have traditional rivals that you'd like to play but can't because they fall outside of the criteria? Getting rid of non-Division I games is great. But replacing them with Division I opponents costs more money. The Sun Belt said it's going to promote. That better include writing checks to member schools to pay to buy games. And the majority of Sun Belt teams limp into the regular season with .500 or below records as it is. Are they going to be any better with this scheduling? And is that going to help RPI or national reputation? And what about penalties? That was another issue the first time around. Paper penalties won't force schools to schedule better.
And the attendance factor of this? It's the most laughable part.
No doubt scheduling needed to be tweaked. But this appears to be an overreaction.