When you start throwing out ridiculous scenarios that no one has ever suggested, you clearly are grasping. But for kicks, I'll answer, sort of. We don't need to play those teams. Never said we did. We need to look at the bottom four or five teams in our typical schedule and replace 2-3 of those with top 100 or 125 teams. That is completely doable. There are teams in the Valley, the Horizon, the OVC, C-USA, the A-10 and the like that would love to play an SEC team. If it means a home and home, then fine. I have a theory on why we don't do that. Stansbury knows that when we play Charlotte, WKU, UAB, Southern Illinois, etc, that he is just as likely to lose as win. And since most of his fan base is like you, happy with 20 wins and NCAA bids ~half the time, there is no need to do it. Just play weak teams, pad the stats, become the all time winningest coach, get into the NCAAs and have free time from mid-March through early April every year.
IF we were to upgrade the schedule, I guess there are three possibilities. One, Stans would get better in coaching against non SEC teams, or hire better staff members to help with that, and we would start winning those games and have a better seed and eventually push through to the SS. Two, Stans would struggle, we would miss the NCAAs several years in a row and he would get canned. Three, we would win about the same number of games and still struggle in the NCAAs, meaning this would not have been the right approach.
