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All I ever hear is the pod system. What if every team had three constant rivals? You get a 9 game conference slate and play 6 of the remaining 12 every year. In this model you play every team in the conference home and home every four years.

Would this format still allow for a CCG? What do you guys think?
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We need to get rid of divisions and schedule the games that make the most sense for fans, like the Southern Conference and SEC did way back. Get rid of divisions and have like four permanent rivals and rotate the others.
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Couldn't agree more. It's crazy that my 8 year old will be boozing at s Louisville tailgate before UofL and VT play a conference game. Every player should get a chance to play every team in the conference. Our way does that.
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(07-31-2015 07:21 PM)esayem Wrote:  We need to get rid of divisions and schedule the games that make the most sense for fans, like the Southern Conference and SEC did way back. Get rid of divisions and have like four permanent rivals and rotate the others.

Then you let a lesser team win the ACC by playing the lesser teams! No, thanks. 07-coffee3
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(07-31-2015 07:21 PM)esayem Wrote:  We need to get rid of divisions and schedule the games that make the most sense for fans, like the Southern Conference and SEC did way back. Get rid of divisions and have like four permanent rivals and rotate the others.

Yeah, it's called the four division system. You have three permanent rivals in your division and then you play two teams from each of the other divisions which basically rotates who you play. That makes more sense for outsiders and general fans of football instead of just the traditional fans of ACC schools. If you want your conference to draw more attention then divisions are the way to go.
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(07-31-2015 07:04 PM)Jimi357 Wrote:  All I ever hear is the pod system. What if every team had three constant rivals? You get a 9 game conference slate and play 6 of the remaining 12 every year. In this model you play every team in the conference home and home every four years.

Would this format still allow for a CCG? What do you guys think?

That's been discussed at length on this board. I think the standard method, with the current 14-team setup, is to have 3 permanent rivals. That leaves 10 schools left. Play 5 schools one year and 5 the next.

The problem with that is the pu**y schools in the Coastal like UNC, UVA, Pitt and Miami want to keep the current divisions because they know they would never win their way into an ACC CG otherwise. HeII, they won't win their way in via the current method, either, but at least they have "hope" or whatever crap the Carolina Way is pretending to care about these days.
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It's because UNC wants to play Duke, Wake, State, and UVA yearly. Why else would UNC schedule Wake OOC?
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To make everybody happy, it would have to be larger than three. Five is more plausible. So you see less teams you DON'T want to play. And that's a bad thing???? Well pardon me if I don't shed many tears for not playing Louisville or Syracuse as often. I would have listed BC as well, but the game in Ireland is pretty damned cool of them.

I'll add the obligatory note here that if you move to a megaconference like my signature, you could not only see almost exclusively teams you want to play, but you'd eliminate lame OOC games (looking at you NCST and Duke), the PITA of OOC scheduling altogether, but still have a trickle of variety from the greater region, and you'd have THE RETURN OF THE HOME AND HOME ROUND ROBIN in basketball with your division. Have I mentioned yet how a megaconference solves all these problems while making you filthy huge piles of lucre? 04-deal
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(07-31-2015 11:37 PM)esayem Wrote:  It's because UNC wants to play Duke, Wake, State, and UVA yearly. Why else would UNC schedule Wake OOC?

They would still play three of the four annually. The odd man out they would play every other year. They wouldn't have to schedule them OOC.
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Status quo.
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The 3, 4, or 5 permanent rivals would work but the NCAA refuses to budge at this time on the matter of fixed divisions. As with large bureaucratic entities, if it makes sense, it cannot be allowed.
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(07-31-2015 07:04 PM)Jimi357 Wrote:  All I ever hear is the pod system. What if every team had three constant rivals? You get a 9 game conference slate and play 6 of the remaining 12 every year. In this model you play every team in the conference home and home every four years.

Would this format still allow for a CCG? What do you guys think?

I've tried to make that work on paper, and have never been able to do it. With different teams all having different ideas about who their three permanent rivals should be, schedules always wind up a bit wonky. The pods are more balanced, and accomplish the same general goal.
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With two divisions you only need one playoff game. If yo go to three or four pods how many playoff games are needed? 04-cheers
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(08-01-2015 09:43 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  With two divisions you only need one playoff game. If yo go to three or four pods how many playoff games are needed? 04-cheers

Pods aren't divisions, the concept of pods is all about getting around the current two division rule. When we move forward, after the death of the big 12, the new rules will be put in place. Hopefully that happens in April as scheduled but it can always be put off further if the proper circumstances have yet to be fulfilled.

When that happens, we will be able to have four divisions instead of just four pods. The four pods are interchangeable but they have to be combined in a way to end up with 2 divisions every year while the current rule is in place. With four divisions, we will then see a four division champion conference tournament take place. There is no way the conferences don't do this. It is an obvious move due to the money involved.
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(08-01-2015 09:36 AM)ken d Wrote:  
(07-31-2015 07:04 PM)Jimi357 Wrote:  All I ever hear is the pod system. What if every team had three constant rivals? You get a 9 game conference slate and play 6 of the remaining 12 every year. In this model you play every team in the conference home and home every four years.

Would this format still allow for a CCG? What do you guys think?

I've tried to make that work on paper, and have never been able to do it. With different teams all having different ideas about who their three permanent rivals should be, schedules always wind up a bit wonky. The pods are more balanced, and accomplish the same general goal.

Honestly, four pods and four divisions pretty much work in identical fashion except that one provides an easy set up for expansion of the conference post season while the other is just working within the current status quo system.

With four team pods, you would have to switch up the pod combination every year in order to achieve a full conference scheduling in a three year period. With four divisions of four teams in each, you can actually do that in two years with a 9 game conference schedule. Now that gets pushed to three years if you have any permanent cross division rivals but even with that, it's still equivalent to the best that you can do with pods.
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(08-01-2015 12:55 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  To make everybody happy, it would have to be larger than three. Five is more plausible. So you see less teams you DON'T want to play. And that's a bad thing???? Well pardon me if I don't shed many tears for not playing Louisville or Syracuse as often. I would have listed BC as well, but the game in Ireland is pretty damned cool of them.

I'll add the obligatory note here that if you move to a megaconference like my signature, you could not only see almost exclusively teams you want to play, but you'd eliminate lame OOC games (looking at you NCST and Duke), the PITA of OOC scheduling altogether, but still have a trickle of variety from the greater region, and you'd have THE RETURN OF THE HOME AND HOME ROUND ROBIN in basketball with your division. Have I mentioned yet how a megaconference solves all these problems while making you filthy huge piles of lucre? 04-deal

Basically, your signature creates one conference by merging three conferences. But you have to sacrifice two schools - BC and Iowa State - to make it work. I am partial to 9 team conferences/divisions as you are. But I'm not willing to make anybody walk the plank to make it happen.

I would keep the three conferences, but reshuffle the deck just a little.

I would move West Virginia to the ACC, bringing the B12 down to nine.

Then, I would move Missouri and Vandy to the SEC West, bringing them to nine and the SEC East to five. I would bring them up to nine by moving Ga Tech, UNC, Duke and Virginia from the ACC, leaving the ACC with 11. I'd bring them back up to 12 by adding Cincy.

The three 9 team divisions/conferences play a full round robin, with no crossovers (unless two teams agree to play OOC). Divide the ACC by geography:

BC, Syracuse, Pitt, West Virginia, Cincy and Louisville.
FSU, Clemson, Miami, NC State, Wake Forest, Va Tech.

Play 5 and 3, with no permanent rivals. Notre Dame plays north division teams every two years and south division every three years.

The two ACC divisions still play a CCG, as do the two SEC divisions to produce a champion. Since the nine team SEC West doesn't play against the East in the regular season, they can play a challenge series every year against the nine team B12.

I can't see a single team whose schedule would be made worse by this, and I can see a lot whose would be improved.

As you would, I would look forward to a return of the home and home round robin in hoops for 27 of these schools. And I would love to see Duke, UNC and Kentucky in the same division.

What would sweeten the deal for me is if the ACC were added to the SEC network as part of the bargain. Their footprint would cover roughly half of the US population.
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(08-01-2015 10:00 AM)ken d Wrote:  
(08-01-2015 12:55 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  To make everybody happy, it would have to be larger than three. Five is more plausible. So you see less teams you DON'T want to play. And that's a bad thing???? Well pardon me if I don't shed many tears for not playing Louisville or Syracuse as often. I would have listed BC as well, but the game in Ireland is pretty damned cool of them.

I'll add the obligatory note here that if you move to a megaconference like my signature, you could not only see almost exclusively teams you want to play, but you'd eliminate lame OOC games (looking at you NCST and Duke), the PITA of OOC scheduling altogether, but still have a trickle of variety from the greater region, and you'd have THE RETURN OF THE HOME AND HOME ROUND ROBIN in basketball with your division. Have I mentioned yet how a megaconference solves all these problems while making you filthy huge piles of lucre? 04-deal

Basically, your signature creates one conference by merging three conferences. But you have to sacrifice two schools - BC and Iowa State - to make it work. I am partial to 9 team conferences/divisions as you are. But I'm not willing to make anybody walk the plank to make it happen.

I would keep the three conferences, but reshuffle the deck just a little.

I would move West Virginia to the ACC, bringing the B12 down to nine.

Then, I would move Missouri and Vandy to the SEC West, bringing them to nine and the SEC East to five. I would bring them up to nine by moving Ga Tech, UNC, Duke and Virginia from the ACC, leaving the ACC with 11. I'd bring them back up to 12 by adding Cincy.

The three 9 team divisions/conferences play a full round robin, with no crossovers (unless two teams agree to play OOC). Divide the ACC by geography:

BC, Syracuse, Pitt, West Virginia, Cincy and Louisville.
FSU, Clemson, Miami, NC State, Wake Forest, Va Tech.

Play 5 and 3, with no permanent rivals. Notre Dame plays north division teams every two years and south division every three years.

The two ACC divisions still play a CCG, as do the two SEC divisions to produce a champion. Since the nine team SEC West doesn't play against the East in the regular season, they can play a challenge series every year against the nine team B12.

I can't see a single team whose schedule would be made worse by this, and I can see a lot whose would be improved.

As you would, I would look forward to a return of the home and home round robin in hoops for 27 of these schools. And I would love to see Duke, UNC and Kentucky in the same division.

What would sweeten the deal for me is if the ACC were added to the SEC network as part of the bargain. Their footprint would cover roughly half of the US population.

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(08-01-2015 09:49 AM)He1nousOne Wrote:  
(08-01-2015 09:36 AM)ken d Wrote:  
(07-31-2015 07:04 PM)Jimi357 Wrote:  All I ever hear is the pod system. What if every team had three constant rivals? You get a 9 game conference slate and play 6 of the remaining 12 every year. In this model you play every team in the conference home and home every four years.

Would this format still allow for a CCG? What do you guys think?

I've tried to make that work on paper, and have never been able to do it. With different teams all having different ideas about who their three permanent rivals should be, schedules always wind up a bit wonky. The pods are more balanced, and accomplish the same general goal.

Honestly, four pods and four divisions pretty much work in identical fashion except that one provides an easy set up for expansion of the conference post season while the other is just working within the current status quo system.

With four team pods, you would have to switch up the pod combination every year in order to achieve a full conference scheduling in a three year period. With four divisions of four teams in each, you can actually do that in two years with a 9 game conference schedule. Now that gets pushed to three years if you have any permanent cross division rivals but even with that, it's still equivalent to the best that you can do with pods.

I believe that what I am calling "pods" you are calling "divisions". They are identical. In either case, the current NCAA rules regarding divisions would have to be relaxed, which I am assuming will happen within the next 12 months.
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(08-01-2015 10:14 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  
(08-01-2015 10:00 AM)ken d Wrote:  
(08-01-2015 12:55 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  To make everybody happy, it would have to be larger than three. Five is more plausible. So you see less teams you DON'T want to play. And that's a bad thing???? Well pardon me if I don't shed many tears for not playing Louisville or Syracuse as often. I would have listed BC as well, but the game in Ireland is pretty damned cool of them.

I'll add the obligatory note here that if you move to a megaconference like my signature, you could not only see almost exclusively teams you want to play, but you'd eliminate lame OOC games (looking at you NCST and Duke), the PITA of OOC scheduling altogether, but still have a trickle of variety from the greater region, and you'd have THE RETURN OF THE HOME AND HOME ROUND ROBIN in basketball with your division. Have I mentioned yet how a megaconference solves all these problems while making you filthy huge piles of lucre? 04-deal

Basically, your signature creates one conference by merging three conferences. But you have to sacrifice two schools - BC and Iowa State - to make it work. I am partial to 9 team conferences/divisions as you are. But I'm not willing to make anybody walk the plank to make it happen.

I would keep the three conferences, but reshuffle the deck just a little.

I would move West Virginia to the ACC, bringing the B12 down to nine.

Then, I would move Missouri and Vandy to the SEC West, bringing them to nine and the SEC East to five. I would bring them up to nine by moving Ga Tech, UNC, Duke and Virginia from the ACC, leaving the ACC with 11. I'd bring them back up to 12 by adding Cincy.

The three 9 team divisions/conferences play a full round robin, with no crossovers (unless two teams agree to play OOC). Divide the ACC by geography:

BC, Syracuse, Pitt, West Virginia, Cincy and Louisville.
FSU, Clemson, Miami, NC State, Wake Forest, Va Tech.

Play 5 and 3, with no permanent rivals. Notre Dame plays north division teams every two years and south division every three years.

The two ACC divisions still play a CCG, as do the two SEC divisions to produce a champion. Since the nine team SEC West doesn't play against the East in the regular season, they can play a challenge series every year against the nine team B12.

I can't see a single team whose schedule would be made worse by this, and I can see a lot whose would be improved.

As you would, I would look forward to a return of the home and home round robin in hoops for 27 of these schools. And I would love to see Duke, UNC and Kentucky in the same division.

What would sweeten the deal for me is if the ACC were added to the SEC network as part of the bargain. Their footprint would cover roughly half of the US population.

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You are probably right. But which schools would object the strongest, and why?
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UNC-Duke, NCSU, Wake, UVA
Duke-UNC, NCSU, Wake, GT
NCSU-UNC, Duke, Wake, Clem
Wake-UNC, NCSU, Duke, VT

UVA-UNC, VT, SU, BC
VT-UVA, Wake, Miami, Clem
Clem-NCSU, GT, FSU, VT

GT-Duke, Clem, FSU, Miami
FSU-Clem, GT, Miami, Louis
Miami-FSU, Pitt, VT, GT

BC-SU, Pitt, Louis, UVA
SU-BC, Pitt, Louis, UVA
Pitt-BC, SU, Miami, Louis
Louis-Pitt, FSU, SU, BC

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