04-18-2020, 07:17 PM
No one has asked me (which makes me the expert) to divine the results of the cost cutting committee, but I do have a proposal for them. I have a plan that can have soccer and football played in fall 2020 or spring 21, plus cost savings for basketball.
1. Football- Start 3 October play straight through until 5 Dec (if it has to be in the Spring start 6 March and end 8 May). A 10 week season with a conference championship week 11 (at the highest seed), no bowl season if a Spring season.
The 10 week season would be 4 OOC and 6 C-USA games (in division only).
Thus ODU would play at home: Wake, Hampton, UVa, FIU, MTSU and Marshall
away: UConn, WKU, Charlotte, and FAU... no games with UTSA or UAB.
2. Men's Soccer: 8 teams (2 affiliates Kentucky and South Carolina, plus ODU, UAB, FIU, FAU, Marshall, and Charlotte). 3 home 3 away; max of 10 OOC (including tourneys), 4 team tourney at highest seed.
3. Women's Soccer Same divisions as FB: 3 Home and 3 away (skipping somebody in the division); max 10 OOC (including tourneys); 4 team tourney at highest seed
4. Basketball (here I get off the beaten path), all doubleheaders [men/women] except for mini-tourneys (trust me). Same divisions as football, no inter-division games (minus the mini-tourneys).
All teams play each intra-division school home and away (12 conference games).
3 more games come from one of 3 Mini-tourneys: 3 games in 3 days at one host school (a separate host school for MBB and WBB mini-tourneys).
Group 1: ODU, FIU, FAU, Charlotte and Marshall
Group 2: WKU, MTSU, UAB and USM {UAB and USM [also WKU/MTSU] could only play each other once, twice of one of the teams in the other division (example: WKU would play MTSU 1x, UAB 1x, and USM 2x; MTSU would play WKU 1x, UAB 2x, USM 1x)}.
Group 3: UTEP, UTSA, Rice, LATech, and UNT
This would give 15 conference games allowing for 3 more OOC (looking at you FIU and USM not to schedule every Bible school in the South).
8 teams (4 from each division) at the highest seed (if the highest seed is the same school then so be it, work around the logistics) in a classic 8 team knock-out tournament.
weird I admit, but one path to try.
1. Football- Start 3 October play straight through until 5 Dec (if it has to be in the Spring start 6 March and end 8 May). A 10 week season with a conference championship week 11 (at the highest seed), no bowl season if a Spring season.
The 10 week season would be 4 OOC and 6 C-USA games (in division only).
Thus ODU would play at home: Wake, Hampton, UVa, FIU, MTSU and Marshall
away: UConn, WKU, Charlotte, and FAU... no games with UTSA or UAB.
2. Men's Soccer: 8 teams (2 affiliates Kentucky and South Carolina, plus ODU, UAB, FIU, FAU, Marshall, and Charlotte). 3 home 3 away; max of 10 OOC (including tourneys), 4 team tourney at highest seed.
3. Women's Soccer Same divisions as FB: 3 Home and 3 away (skipping somebody in the division); max 10 OOC (including tourneys); 4 team tourney at highest seed
4. Basketball (here I get off the beaten path), all doubleheaders [men/women] except for mini-tourneys (trust me). Same divisions as football, no inter-division games (minus the mini-tourneys).
All teams play each intra-division school home and away (12 conference games).
3 more games come from one of 3 Mini-tourneys: 3 games in 3 days at one host school (a separate host school for MBB and WBB mini-tourneys).
Group 1: ODU, FIU, FAU, Charlotte and Marshall
Group 2: WKU, MTSU, UAB and USM {UAB and USM [also WKU/MTSU] could only play each other once, twice of one of the teams in the other division (example: WKU would play MTSU 1x, UAB 1x, and USM 2x; MTSU would play WKU 1x, UAB 2x, USM 1x)}.
Group 3: UTEP, UTSA, Rice, LATech, and UNT
This would give 15 conference games allowing for 3 more OOC (looking at you FIU and USM not to schedule every Bible school in the South).
8 teams (4 from each division) at the highest seed (if the highest seed is the same school then so be it, work around the logistics) in a classic 8 team knock-out tournament.
weird I admit, but one path to try.