Goodbye Coastal Division

UL will benefit from playing us regularly. We get little from then, but hopefully for some fans to travel.
 
I don't have a problem with nuking the division structure but if you go to just letting 1 and 2 play in a championship game then that will be pretty silly at times. Imagine that Clemson and UNC finish 1 and 2. But they may have played just the week or 2 before in the regular season. That championship is either going to be very anticlimactic or make the regular season matchup pretty meaningless.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
I don't have a problem with nuking the division structure but if you go to just letting 1 and 2 play in a championship game then that will be pretty silly at times. Imagine that Clemson and UNC finish 1 and 2. But they may have played just the week or 2 before in the regular season. That championship is either going to be very anticlimactic or make the regular season matchup pretty meaningless.
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That’s why I wish (though it’s likely not ever going to happen) the conferences would roll back their membership to ten schools or less. That way everyone conference member would play a round robin schedule and they could eliminate the conference championship games.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
I don't have a problem with nuking the division structure but if you go to just letting 1 and 2 play in a championship game then that will be pretty silly at times. Imagine that Clemson and UNC finish 1 and 2. But they may have played just the week or 2 before in the regular season. That championship is either going to be very anticlimactic or make the regular season matchup pretty meaningless.
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The key for the second level programs is to plan to have up teams when the schedule is down. That was harder to do with divisions.

Think about it, ifyou only have one third the budget spend it wisely and create a winning record every third year. It’s not that hard to figure out… it’s the new realities of college football.
 
I remember when the Divisions were made and they strategically put Miami in another Division separate from FSU, Us separate from Clemson to ensure that 'rivalries' would never cancel each other out in Division Play. Quite the opposite happened. If we had separated everything regionally, then year in and year out, only one Division would dominate and the teams in it would beat each other up (for example, if you broke it up North vs South, you'd have (FSU, Miami, GT, Clemson, NC State, UNC, WF) vs (Louisville, France, VT, Pitt, BC, Syracuse, Duke). Notre Dame in all other sports would be in the North Conference. This alignment would appeal to regional rivals like the SEC. I still get why they're doing away with Divisions but I don't like it. It made 'internal' Division races interesting. Hopefully they'll go back to Divisions, or Divisions more region specific.
 
Vive La France!

I like a few permanent rivals and then play everyone more often. I hate our permanent rivals. They suck. Ergo I suppose I also would prefer going back to divisions.
 
GTCrew4b said:
Vive La France!

I like a few permanent rivals and then play everyone more often. I hate our permanent rivals. They suck. Ergo I suppose I also would prefer going back to divisions.
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I like that we still have Clemson, but I would’ve preferred FSU or Miami plus VPI as our other two permanent rivals. At least we’re still playing ‘Atlantic’ teams more often.
 
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