(07-12-2017 09:51 AM)MJG Wrote:  

(07-11-2017 02:08 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  Here's what we do: Merge the Sun Belt and CUSA, add JMU and Missouri State for 26 schools.

Football
* 13 divisions of two teams apiece (UTEP-UTSA, Rice-Texas State, North Texas-Louisiana Tech, ULL-ULM, Arkansas State-Missouri State, FIU-FAU, South Alabama-Southern Miss, Troy-UAB, WKU-Middle Tennessee, ODU-JMU, Charlotte-Coastal Carolina, Marshall-Appalachian State, Georgia State-Georgia Southern)
* Week 1-2: Home-and-home with the other team in your division. All division winners and three wild-card teams advance to the conference tournament (score differential is first tiebreaker, points scored on the road is second, coin flip is third). Everyone else plays in a lower tournament except for the worst two teams, which play a worst-of-5 Series of Ignominy.
* Weeks 3-6: Tournament play.
* Week 7: Bye
* Week 8: Tournament placement games, from 1st to 23rd.
* 1st-place game is televised by Stadium on delay, all other games are broadcast on Periscope using fans' iPhones. Nobody watches and no money changes hands.
* Everyone goes to crappy bowls anyway.
* In an effort to boost interest, Sun Belt/CUSA plans expansion to 32 schools and 16 divisions, eliminating the possibility of 0-2 teams reaching the championship tournament
Basketball
* No in-conference play
* Automatic bid is determined by committee.
Other sports
* All champions are determined by cheese roll



Future
* bright.

Sound good?

How do ou prevent schools from recruiting former professional Cheese Rollers?

Presumably if you hear a bunch of Gloucester accents in Tuscaloosa, you'd do well to be suspicious. Or if somewhere like Miami or Tulane has a strong program.