(11-14-2018 10:29 AM)ken d Wrote:  There's an alternative to the five protected game model that doesn't require a nine game league schedule. In your three protected game model, every school will play non-protected rivals twice every four years. If a school were to play whichever of their two additional rivals were not on their conference schedule OOC, they would be happy, and teams which want to preserve their 4 OOC games for schools outside the conference (Clemson comes to mind in the ACC) could still choose to do so.

True, this is an alternative, but I'm not sure many schools would sign off on a conference schedule that requires them to play in-conference rivals OOC.

(11-14-2018 11:07 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Thats was my whole original point. I'd like to see the NCAA give the the conferences the ability to divide into as many divisions as they like. Yes, you can use pods today---but your really just using the pods to mimic two divisions. What I'm proposing is simply allowing conferences to decide how many divisions to split into. The single CCG per conference rule is fine and would not need to change. A true 3 or 4 division format would give conferences far more scheduling flexibility than the current model.

I too am in favor of letting conferences decide how to organize their own members and set their own schedule. I don't see why either of those need to be regulated by the NCAA. I'm also in favor of giving conferences control over their championship structure, although I can see for the players' sake why the NCAA wants to limit the number of extra games. I don't think permitting 3 extra games per conference (for a 2-round championship) instead of just 1 extra game would result in that much of an additional burden.