Quote:Football:
The Atlantic and Coastal divisions will remain the same with Syracuse joining the Atlantic and Pitt joining the Coastal. The current primary crossover partners will remain consistent with Syracuse and Pitt becoming primary crossover partners with each other.

When Pitt and Syracuse join the ACC, the league will play a nine-game conference schedule. The format will consist of each team playing all six in its division each year, plus its primary crossover partner each year and two rotating opponents from the opposite division. This six-year cycle allows each team to play each divisional opponent and its primary crossover partner six times (three home and three away) while also playing each rotating crossover opponent two times (one home and one away).

http://www.theacc.com/genrel/020312aaa.html

The ACC continues Zipper format with one permanent cross over for each school on a 9 game schedule.

How could a MAC schedule work similarly?

Reese Division: NIU, Ball State, BGSU, Miami, Kent St, Ohio, Temple*
Jacoby Division: WMU, CMU, EMU, Toledo, Akron, Buffalo, UMass*

Suggested Permanents:

Northern Illinois:Western Michigan
Ball State:Central Michigan
Miami:Eastern Michigan
Bowling Green:Toledo
Kent State:Akron
Ohio:Buffalo
Temple:UMass

I like the above more than moving BGSU back and forth from the East and West division depending on the sport. This also breaks up the markets better for each division.

(02-03-2012 01:36 PM)Louis Kitton Wrote:  

Quote:Football:
The Atlantic and Coastal divisions will remain the same with Syracuse joining the Atlantic and Pitt joining the Coastal. The current primary crossover partners will remain consistent with Syracuse and Pitt becoming primary crossover partners with each other.

When Pitt and Syracuse join the ACC, the league will play a nine-game conference schedule. The format will consist of each team playing all six in its division each year, plus its primary crossover partner each year and two rotating opponents from the opposite division. This six-year cycle allows each team to play each divisional opponent and its primary crossover partner six times (three home and three away) while also playing each rotating crossover opponent two times (one home and one away).

http://www.theacc.com/genrel/020312aaa.html

The ACC continues Zipper format with one permanent cross over for each school on a 9 game schedule.

How could a MAC schedule work similarly?

Reese Division: NIU, Ball State, BGSU, Miami, Kent St, Ohio, Temple*
Jacoby Division: WMU, CMU, EMU, Toledo, Akron, Buffalo, UMass*

Suggested Permanents:

Northern Illinois:Western Michigan
Ball State:Central Michigan
Miami:Eastern Michigan
Bowling Green:Toledo
Kent State:Akron
Ohio:Buffalo
Temple:UMass

I like the above more than moving BGSU back and forth from the East and West division depending on the sport. This also breaks up the markets better for each division.

*NO*

While MAC fans are not known for traveling well this is a way to make it ever worse.

(02-03-2012 01:36 PM)Louis Kitton Wrote:  

Quote:Football:
The Atlantic and Coastal divisions will remain the same with Syracuse joining the Atlantic and Pitt joining the Coastal. The current primary crossover partners will remain consistent with Syracuse and Pitt becoming primary crossover partners with each other.

When Pitt and Syracuse join the ACC, the league will play a nine-game conference schedule. The format will consist of each team playing all six in its division each year, plus its primary crossover partner each year and two rotating opponents from the opposite division. This six-year cycle allows each team to play each divisional opponent and its primary crossover partner six times (three home and three away) while also playing each rotating crossover opponent two times (one home and one away).

http://www.theacc.com/genrel/020312aaa.html

The ACC continues Zipper format with one permanent cross over for each school on a 9 game schedule.

How could a MAC schedule work similarly?

Reese Division: NIU, Ball State, BGSU, Miami, Kent St, Ohio, Temple*
Jacoby Division: WMU, CMU, EMU, Toledo, Akron, Buffalo, UMass*

Suggested Permanents:

Northern Illinois:Western Michigan
Ball State:Central Michigan
Miami:Eastern Michigan
Bowling Green:Toledo
Kent State:Akron
Ohio:Buffalo
Temple:UMass

I like the above more than moving BGSU back and forth from the East and West division depending on the sport. This also breaks up the markets better for each division.

Like the format. Like the names of the divisions. I vote YES.

It's a creative solution, but not one I'd get behind. The travel would make too many schools complain and the fans don't travel that well. The real killer though is that I don't think the MAC wants to go to a nine-game conference schedule. It'd lose a pay day against a BCS team or a cheap win against an FCS team.

(02-03-2012 01:36 PM)Louis Kitton Wrote:  

Quote:Football:
The Atlantic and Coastal divisions will remain the same with Syracuse joining the Atlantic and Pitt joining the Coastal. The current primary crossover partners will remain consistent with Syracuse and Pitt becoming primary crossover partners with each other.

When Pitt and Syracuse join the ACC, the league will play a nine-game conference schedule. The format will consist of each team playing all six in its division each year, plus its primary crossover partner each year and two rotating opponents from the opposite division. This six-year cycle allows each team to play each divisional opponent and its primary crossover partner six times (three home and three away) while also playing each rotating crossover opponent two times (one home and one away).

http://www.theacc.com/genrel/020312aaa.html

The ACC continues Zipper format with one permanent cross over for each school on a 9 game schedule.

How could a MAC schedule work similarly?

Reese Division: NIU, Ball State, BGSU, Miami, Kent St, Ohio, Temple*
Jacoby Division: WMU, CMU, EMU, Toledo, Akron, Buffalo, UMass*

Suggested Permanents:

Northern Illinois:Western Michigan
Ball State:Central Michigan
Miami:Eastern Michigan
Bowling Green:Toledo
Kent State:Akron
Ohio:Buffalo
Temple:UMass

I like the above more than moving BGSU back and forth from the East and West division depending on the sport. This also breaks up the markets better for each division.

Ugh!!

ACC is killing themselves.

Why should we want to do likewise?

We just changed like 4 months ago. We already want to change again? I'm sorry but this conference has been realigned. Until a team moves out, or a new team moves in... Abondon the new division stuff.

(02-03-2012 09:56 PM)psc2009 Wrote:  It's a creative solution, but not one I'd get behind. The travel would make too many schools complain and the fans don't travel that well. The real killer though is that I don't think the MAC wants to go to a nine-game conference schedule. It'd lose a pay day against a BCS team or a cheap win against an FCS team.

But we could replace it with an even cheaper win against the East.

Folks need to know what the ACC has done to itself.

It used to be a GREAT hoops conference and now has slipped.

With this crazy schedule the regular season will be a joke. Rivalries have been diluted. Amazing but Maryland plays Pitt twice and the rest once. UGH!!!!

The MAC's strength is that it knows it's PLACE in the sports universe and doesn't do stupid things like some of the other conference.

The MAC has broadened its footprint as intelligently as it can (e.g., Temple, UMass).

The one conference which was the smartest, the B1G, adding PSU and Nebraska in the last 20 years.

(02-03-2012 01:36 PM)Louis Kitton Wrote:  

Quote:Football:
The Atlantic and Coastal divisions will remain the same with Syracuse joining the Atlantic and Pitt joining the Coastal. The current primary crossover partners will remain consistent with Syracuse and Pitt becoming primary crossover partners with each other.

When Pitt and Syracuse join the ACC, the league will play a nine-game conference schedule. The format will consist of each team playing all six in its division each year, plus its primary crossover partner each year and two rotating opponents from the opposite division. This six-year cycle allows each team to play each divisional opponent and its primary crossover partner six times (three home and three away) while also playing each rotating crossover opponent two times (one home and one away).

http://www.theacc.com/genrel/020312aaa.html

The ACC continues Zipper format with one permanent cross over for each school on a 9 game schedule.

How could a MAC schedule work similarly?

Reese Division: NIU, Ball State, BGSU, Miami, Kent St, Ohio, Temple*
Jacoby Division: WMU, CMU, EMU, Toledo, Akron, Buffalo, UMass*

Suggested Permanents:

Northern Illinois:Western Michigan
Ball State:Central Michigan
Miami:Eastern Michigan
Bowling Green:Toledo
Kent State:Akron
Ohio:Buffalo
Temple:UMass

I like the above more than moving BGSU back and forth from the East and West division depending on the sport. This also breaks up the markets better for each division.

Hell NO!!! I couldn't tell you who is in the Coastal or who is in the Atlantic Divisions, I can't tell you who is in the Leaders or who is in the Legends divisions. These type of breakdowns make absolutely no sense to me. I knew who was in the Big 12 North and who was in the Big 12 South. I like the geographic divide!!!