(08-04-2022 09:23 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote: So for football scheduling, I can foresee a 5-pod system wherein each of the 15 teams plays its 2 podmates annually and half the other 12 opponents twice in 4 years. The pods:
1) Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
2) Albany, Monmouth, Stony Brook
3) Delaware, Towson, Villanova
4) Hampton, Richmond, William & Mary
5) Campbell, Elon, NC A&T
I'm not sure how important it is to keep Hampton/NC A&T annual.
D1 360 did his 4 minutes in. He seems to think W&M/UDel and A&T/Hampton would be protected over in-state pods, creating a pentagon with Nova/UDel/Towson/W&M/UR and a quadrangle with Hampton/A&T/Elon/Campbell.
I hope he’s correct on the pentagon pod and history would support that. Within the CAA, W&Ms preferred opponents would be UR, Delaware, Villanova and likely Elon, in that order. I could understand Hampton annually given the proximity - the rest could all be rotating. Those 4 to 5 provide at least two conference games if interest per year.