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Thank you for the post. I think the division thing is done, especially with having just 8 conference games. Personally, I think going to 9 conference games would be a better first step to get a true conference champion.

The fact that none of Clemson, SMU, and Miami faced each other in the regular season shows how much of a scheduling gap there is. It was bad with 14 schools, but even worse with 17 football schools now.
 
CaneinBroward said:
Thank you for the post. I think the division thing is done, especially with having just 8 conference games. Personally, I think going to 9 conference games would be a better first step to get a true conference champion.

The fact that none of Clemson, SMU, and Miami faced each other in the regular season shows how much of a scheduling gap there is. It was bad with 14 schools, but even worse with 17 football schools now.
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We didn't play Clemson every year when it was the other way either... And we play SMU next season.... Im not knocking your post but you can't play everyone every year... Just can't happen..
 
Atom Atlas said:
We didn't play Clemson every year when it was the other way either... And we play SMU next season.... Im not knocking your post but you can't play everyone every year... Just can't happen..
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But with divisions at least everybody has the same path. Even if your division is harder the best team will be there. Clemson or SMU didn’t even have to play Syracuse or GT. Not that Miami didn’t shoot theirselves in the foot but I doubt Clemson or SMU gets out of those two games without losses.
 
KevinCaneFace said:
But with divisions at least everybody has the same path. Even if your division is harder the best team will be there. Clemson or SMU didn’t even have to play Syracuse or GT. Not that Miami didn’t shoot theirselves in the foot but I doubt Clemson or SMU gets out of those two games without losses.
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with divisions, we at least would have gotten into the aCCCG this year if SMU were in the opposite division and not some bull**** tie breaker created because of the swath of divisionless football due to the overly large conferences.
 
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KevinCaneFace said:
But with divisions at least everybody has the same path. Even if your division is harder the best team will be there. Clemson or SMU didn’t even have to play Syracuse or GT. Not that Miami didn’t shoot theirselves in the foot but I doubt Clemson or SMU gets out of those two games without losses.
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The point is though someone is gonna get there without facing someone else .... Everyone can't play everyone...
 
It’s funny seeing points and then saying somebody is wrong…then offering up nothing.

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What a great idea, 16 teams. Glad he's making millions to come up with such a novel concept.

Truth is when the NCAA goes to 16 teams, they will still find a way to **** it up. Just the way it is gonna be.
 
Atom Atlas said:
We didn't play Clemson every year when it was the other way either... And we play SMU next season.... Im not knocking your post but you can't play everyone every year... Just can't happen..
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No, but divisions allow you to get 2 championship game participants who each played an entire slate of teams and determined themselves to be the best of that group. Thus, whoever wins the championship game is therefore deemed to be the champion of both divisions based on the transitive rule. The problem with the division model is when one division is much better than the other, like the Atlantic was over the Coastal for much of the time, the championship game becomes a yawner and doesn't actually help the champion's resume for the playoff committee.

However, I think the division concept is dead, especially with 17 teams. If they went back to divisions with an 8 game conference schedule, you would have one division that would only play its own division each and every season. You can't be a true conference like that. And to your point, if you played a 9 game conference schedule, that 9 team division would play each team in the other division once every 8 years. Again, not very conference like.

So, to me, the best option would be to add a 9th game so there is more opportunity to find the best 2 teams in the conference for the championship game and less opportunity for a team to sneak in who avoids playing the big boys of the conference.
 
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CaneinBroward said:
Thank you for the post. I think the division thing is done, especially with having just 8 conference games. Personally, I think going to 9 conference games would be a better first step to get a true conference champion.

The fact that none of Clemson, SMU, and Miami faced each other in the regular season shows how much of a scheduling gap there is. It was bad with 14 schools, but even worse with 17 football schools now.
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I think the division thing makes sense. Win your division, make the playoffs. Win your conference championship, get home field in the first round. It would absolutely end all rankings and opinions of who deserves what.

One more thing that would do.....

It would make teams WANT to play awesome OOC games, because they would have no bearing on your playoff chances. Perhaps seeding, but the money these OOC games would bring in would be well worth it. No one wants to watch Alabama play Mercer. Everyone would tune in to watch Alabama play say Oregon in the regular season.
 
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CaneinBroward said:
Thank you for the post. I think the division thing is done, especially with having just 8 conference games. Personally, I think going to 9 conference games would be a better first step to get a true conference champion.

The fact that none of Clemson, SMU, and Miami faced each other in the regular season shows how much of a scheduling gap there is. It was bad with 14 schools, but even worse with 17 football schools now.
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Totally understand your point, but I hate the idea of going to 9 games unless we (and other P4 conferences) drop the cupcakes instead of good teams from our out of conference schedule.

The problem - and one that is clearly not getting solved anytime soon - is that the conferences got too **** big.
 
really thought this guy would do a better job with what he apparently had done at Clemson but he's done nothing except make a bad baseball hire since he's been here.

I'm not giving him credit for Mario cause the Cuban mafia hired him and i doubt Radovich had much say in the matter.
 
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CaneinBroward said:
No, but divisions allow you to get 2 championship game participants who each played an entire slate of teams and determined themselves to be the best of that group. Thus, whoever wins the championship game is therefore deemed to be the champion of both divisions based on the transitive rule. The problem with the division model is when one division is much better than the other, like the Atlantic was over the Coastal for much of the time, the championship game becomes a yawner and doesn't actually help the champion's resume for the playoff committee.

However, I think the division concept is dead, especially with 17 teams. If they went back to divisions with an 8 game conference schedule, you would have one division that would only play its own division each and every season. You can't be a true conference like that. And to your point, if you played a 9 game conference schedule, that 9 team division would play each team in the other division once every 8 years. Again, not very conference like.

So, to me, the best option would be to add a 9th game so there is more opportunity to find the best 2 teams in the conference for the championship game and less opportunity for a team to sneak in who avoids playing the big boys of the conference.
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Good post... The end result is no matter how it's done there's always gonna be games left on the table....
 
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ThomasM said:
I think the division thing makes sense. Win your division, make the playoffs. Win your conference championship, get home field in the first round. It would absolutely end all rankings and opinions of who deserves what.

One more thing that would do.....

It would make teams WANT to play awesome OOC games, because they would have no bearing on your playoff chances. Perhaps seeding, but the money these OOC games would bring in would be well worth it. No one wants to watch Alabama play Mercer. Everyone would tune in to watch Alabama play say Oregon in the regular season.
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I agree about the OOC games, but until these conferences decide to work together and form a more formal "league", I just don't see it happening. Alabama is even talking about playing only G5 and FCS in OOC because the SEC schedule is so tough.
 
CaneinBroward said:
I agree about the OOC games, but until these conferences decide to work together and form a more formal "league", I just don't see it happening. Alabama is even talking about playing only G5 and FCS in OOC because the SEC schedule is so tough.
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Keep in mind we're only at the beginning stages of where all this is going.... And to be honest with you I have 0 clue anymore where that is.... SEC and Big 10 are gonna dictate a lot moving forward.... Whether they break away from everyone or not is still up in the air but something really big is gonna hit soon...
 
passitback said:
What a great idea, 16 teams. Glad he's making millions to come up with such a novel concept.

Truth is when the NCAA goes to 16 teams, they will still find a way to **** it up. Just the way it is gonna be.
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To support your point: There are 64 teams in the baseball postseason and under Rad we hired JD Arteaga.
 
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