(05-29-2019 12:30 PM)Wear Purple Wrote: (05-29-2019 10:12 AM)Garrettabc Wrote: 1 Ditch divisions - each school can have 2-3 permanent conference rivals and can cycle through everybody else much quicker. This will result in better matchups more frequent. Let's start with ditching divisions in baseball...makes zero sense for that sport and accomplishes nothing. As far as FB goes, try figuring out and facilitating who each school's 2-3 permanent conference rivals are going to be while making it equitable from a competitiveness standpoint. I'm OK with ditching divisions in FB if there is some scheduling solution that makes sense. For example, if Miami and GT have to face Clemson and FSU (and vice versa) every year as those 2-3 permanent conference rivals, that is not competitively equitable to the rest of the conference. Bottom line, it isn't as easy as you suggest is my point.
I think divisionless scheduling is a football-only issue (although basketball is already divisionless with 2 annual rivals, and that works pretty well).
(05-29-2019 12:30 PM)Wear Purple Wrote: (05-29-2019 10:12 AM)Garrettabc Wrote: 2 Feature ACC rivalry games on CCG weekend - with no ACCCG you could feature ACC rivalry games that would otherwise get less attention on the previous week. Example: UNC-NCSU, UVA-VT, UM-Pitt How much does the ACC make off the ACCCG to be distributed across all 14 FB members? Whatever I'd think the revenue from that outweighs having the few legit inter-conference rivalries that exist in the ACC in that first Saturday of December. i.e., I doubt there will be any surge of folks watching UNC-NCSU a week later than the week before.
Garrettabc's suggestion isn't as crazy as it first sounds, for 2 reasons:
1) AFAIK, ESPN does not specifically pay anything extra for the ACC CG, so removing it might not cost a thing (and might even give the ACC an opportunity to "sell it back" at the next look-in!)
2) If the other conferences don't want to play ball, forget 'em! The ONLY reason the ACC schedules with 2 divisions is because the rules for holding a CCG require it... scrap the CCG and do whatever schedule you want! (Then when the rules are finally changed - and they will be - sell the new and improved ACC CG to ESPN)
Divisionless scheduling would allow the QUALITY of the regular season to improve dramatically - and I'm sure ESPN is ok with that!
Not enough games? No problem - make sure every ACC team plays 7 home games and pick up 7 more games (from 91 to 98).
Need to spread them out even more? Either play at Hawaii or play someone who plays at Hawaii in week 0. For instance, FSU @ Boise St next year can be moved to week 0 if desired because BSU plays at Hawaii. That won't give FSU a 13th game, but it would give them an extra BYE week.
And did I mention that you could do all of this for a few years, then sell the ACC CG back to ESPN for more money????