I think fans get too much in their feels about non-conf schedules in year 1 of a new coach
We play UConn, Duke and in Maui. We also play a Virginia team with a brand new coach, like us. That wasn’t our choice, we don’t decide the SEC/ACC matchups
Otherwise, this team has a new coach, new staff, a ton of transfers and the goal in year 1 is to make the tournament. Expecting this team to jell with a murderer’s row of non-conf scheduling is pie in the sky.
Like Pancho said, Miller needs to instill his culture in year 1, have some success and stack some wins, make the tournament and then you can start demanding better non-conf schedules.
We made the tournament last year with a pretty abysmal non-conf schedule (not much better than this year’s) and a super flawed roster with really mediocre coaching - had we not blown some of those games we had leads, or didn’t show up against bad teams, we likely have a much better seed than we did. We upgraded the roster and the coaching.