<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Before getting snubbed by the NCAA tourney committee, many State fans probably assumed we would schedule 9 easier teams for our first 9 games without Sidney. However, now that we have been criticized and snubbed for too easy an OOC schedule, what do we do?<br style="min-width: 0px; "><br style="min-width: 0px; ">Do we schedule tough teams in those first 9 with a much less chance of winning because we won't have Sidney?<br style="min-width: 0px; "><br style="min-width: 0px; ">Do we try to start with easier teams without Sidney then load up our mid-to-late-December schedule with the toughest teams we can?<br style="min-width: 0px; "><br style="min-width: 0px; ">It's hard enough to find quality opponents, so trying to only schedule them for when Sidney can playmight turn out to be a difficultscheduling problem--we might not be able to find good opponents for late December (but might in November or early December).</span>