You really have an easy stretch coming up don't you...I wouldn't be surprised if there like 16-9 they'll be back in it @UCLA tomorrow, vs Louisville next Thursday, and two weeks from tomorrow, @UConn. It ain't happening. ha wow...wait when do you guys play the easy stretch of the Big East? Seton Hall or Providence? I feel like every other day you play one of the top 6 teams. they have providence coming up. they already beat seton hall and lost to st. john's. they play uconn and louisville twice, both excellent teams, but get st. john's twice, and they're bad. so i'd say that notre dame has a little harder than average big east schedule and they've had a lot of their hard games bunched up in the middle. they have a pretty tough schedule but they have a mediocre record because they just aren't that good. Well I didn't think they were great...and they kind of gave themselves a hard non-conference game, but still I didn't think they'd be playing this bad so far they didn't really do themselves any favors with their OOC schedule either. they either played hard games or the sisters of the poor. i'm not saying you need to play brutally hard games every time but you can bring in some quality teams from conferences like the mountain west, atlantic 10, missouri valley, horizon - games that you should win against teams that will end up with respectable RPI's. some of notre dame's OOC opponents: south carolina upstate: 5-16, 25th (out of 31) rated conference loyola marymount: 1-22, 13th rated conference furman: 4-17, 25th rated conference south dakota: non d-i delaware st: 5-18, 30th rated conference savannah st: 12-11, independent (rated 317th in the nation by pomeroy) playing that many games against horrible teams will make your OOC schedule and your RPI look a lot worse than playing a bunch of games against teams with RPIs anywhere from 50 to 200. True and didn't realize how bad some of there out of conference games were