(04-16-2026 09:48 AM)Keswick_Crusaders_Forever51 Wrote: One other option I could see is allowing each school to pick between 1 & 3 teams they don't want to miss, & if both schools include the other, they're locked in as never misses
I know this sounds wacky, but this is CUSA, so conventional is not our strong suit
For Liberty, I could see them picking 2 or 3 of:
Delaware
FIU
NMSU
WKU
Kennesaw St
Yeah, I considered an option like this as well. It's lopsided, because not every school has even one top choice for a "protected" opponent, let alone 3, but for some of us, it makes a lot of sense.
In addition to Kennesaw, Jax State could easily protect MTSU and WKU as well.
One wonders how complex the scheduling would get if you were to go around the conference, letting schools pick 1-3 protected games. If (for example) Jax State picked WKU, but WKU didn't pick JSU, then that game wouldn't be protected. But any matchup where both schools picked each other (e.g., Liberty and NMSU) would be.
Once you locked those in, you'd have to flesh out the rest of the schedule for 8 conference games over 13 weeks, with byes and nonconference games built in.
It would either all fall into place nicely, or just about the time you got to the last couple of schools, the whole thing would blow up when you realize FIU needs an 8th conference game, and there's no one left to play them.
I guess we'd find out which one played out if Judy showed up with gray hair and bleary, bloodshot eyes for the schedule release.
