(07-30-2015 10:50 AM)ken d Wrote: (07-30-2015 07:03 AM)HtownOrange Wrote: Texas and Oklahoma, yes. Kansas if necessary. No to OSU, Texas Blech, Baylor, TCU and KSU as tag-alongs.
Would you consider moving BC and Syracuse to the Coastal Division, and adding Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and West Virginia to the Atlantic? Or putting Miami in the Atlantic and West Virginia in the Coastal?
18 teams? Makes it hard for cross division play, Home and Home every 18 years. May as well go to 20 with four 5-team pods. I am still not convinced WVU will be welcomed to the ACC with open arms.
I am not as fixated on divisions as many. I like playing FSU (always liked B. Bowden), Pitt (long history, not an exciting rivalry, but a good friend) and Louisville (usually interesting games). I don't hate BC as many Orange fans do, mostly they have been irrelevant when the two teams played, though there were a few games. Regardless, if that is what it takes to get UT and OU in, I am OK with it.
Putting FSU, Clemson, UT, OU, Louisville, WVU, NCState, Kansas and Wake in one division virtually guarantees that the Coastal will win the conference championship year in and year out. Balancing the divisions would be hard, and nobody would want to travel to the Toto-land, regardless of the strength of their division. (If you were going to keep your division, move Wake, too, so the power division would have their built in win as incentive to travel to Kansas).
Personally, living in H-Town, I would be happy because I can travel to Austin and to Norman for games. I even have a place to stay free in Norman (TexanMark, my daughter and son-in-law would make room for you).