(12-09-2020 03:50 PM)TexasTerror Wrote:  Let's presume for all intents and purposes, Chicago State is out of the picture and that the league adds Southern Utah & the four Texas-based institutions... still need one more team to join or someone to leave...

Again, all speculation... but I really am trying to share with my Southland brethren how scheduling can be done in a decent enough way to limit travel out of Texas.

West
Cal Baptist
Dixie State
Grand Canyon
New Mexico State
Seattle
Southern Utah
Utah Valley

East *
Abilene Christian
Lamar
Sam Houston State
Stephen F Austin
Tarleton State
UT-RGV

East features one TBA school; could be a D2 team from Texas, a non-football add (not so likely) or end up being New Mexico State if one of the Big Sky schools come over
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Football - All teams play each other once.

Men's and Women's Basketball - Home-and-homes within divisions; a single game against the teams in the other division (rotating each year home & away). That's 12 divisional games & 7 intra-division games (19 game schedule; you could conceivably add one "intra-divisional rival" to balance things at 10 home/10 away and 20 game schedule

Volleyball/Softball - Divisional schedule only with the addition of one or two "round-ups" allowing intradivisional play (say that all teams converge once in the west and once in the east)

Swimming & Diving / Beach Volleyball / Cross Country / Track & Field / Golf - a single championship event as is the case now

Tennis - no regular season play; end of season tournament based on ITA rankings

Baseball - this is where I am stuck; could you conceivably do home-and-homes within the division? That's 36 games (6 opponents x 3 x 2) in league play and then do a tournament based on divisional seeding/rank? Maybe do "pool play" in the tournament so everyone gets at least three games?

So you are gonna take out ChiSt (an eastern school) and then say your speculation includes a TBA eastern school? SMH. These threads are so ridiculous. Don’t change things to fit your narrative.