It's research talking to other coaches in the league.

It's trying to figure out, you know, who the returning players are in each league.

Like you said, you feel like you're an ESPAN analyst at times,

and then also, too, it's pulling up the film of the team and being able to watch three four

or five games and go through a random team's depth chart for 30 minutes and go

through and talk about a team's depth chart so that that part of it is

really cool and interesting and coaches are just so involved in hands-on throughout

the scheduling Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our

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Lindsay Golf. Creating a non-conference college Lindsay Gough. Aye. 5.

Creating a non-conference college basketball schedule has always been challenging.

But for Eric Musselman's staff, it's gone to another level.

It can kind of be like dating, like you might find,

you might be interested in somebody,

but they're not interested in you.

Few have learned to play that game

better than Eric Musselman and his staff.

Everything in his program is about finding competitive advantages,

whether it's through using advanced analytics, marketing,

or in this case, scheduling.

And the guy making it all happen is director of basketball operations

Anthony Ruta who is tasked with crafting a schedule that will help the razor

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