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Bye Bye Corstal? ACC Possibly Moving Toward Eliminating Divisions

LoungeLord said:
Crap, I just printed 8,000 'Cristobal Wins Coastal 2022' shirts. Had to get the deposit in to get them back in time. Figured it was a given. Crap, crap, crap.
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Insert "Atlantic" and splash some white ink over the "-al" letters, and all is good.
 
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OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
I don’t really care one way or the other but what was the rationale that they gave in the article for removing the division divide?
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Money. Better matchups for TV, especially the championship game. They want to be able to match up the two best teams for the championship game regardless of division.

Also, it gives the ACC somewhat of a better shot at getting a 1 loss team in the playoffs, because it makes the championship more likely to be a "a quality win."

Not sure if that was in this particular article, but it's been in others since the conference expansion stuff started. The ACC has been kicking this around since OU and Texas went to the SEC.
 
Divisions are so dumb.

A few permanent rivals and then rotate everybody in lane every other year is the way to go.

It also should make playoff automatic qualifiers easier.

You’re never going to have AQs when the Big Ten West exists. 8-4 Northwestern gets in the Big Ten Championship and then upsets Ohio State somehow, and is now in the playoffs, is not something the playoff committee will ever allow.

Ditch divisions, and now it becomes easier to allow AQs.
 
cane1963 said:
ACC - 8 conference games
BIG - 2 games
PAC10 - 2 games

Now that would make for many games worth watching. AND, it would go a big way towards putting fans back in the seats!
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I'd love something like this but (and sorry for harping on it) it HAS to accompany auto bids for conference winners. The ACC, Big Ten and Pac 12 can't be playing these non-cupcake schedules and then get repeatedly burned as the SEC just sits back and continues business as usual and is guaranteed multiple playoff bids.

Ideally this would actually force the SEC to improve its OOC scheduling to as they should eventually get burned in an expanded playoff system featuring at-large bids when a team like UiF doesn't play a game west of the Mississippi in 32 years or doesn't leave the state for months on end.

But give me a Miami-USC home-and-home asap. ****, throw in a 3rd neutral site game too. Play it in Texas or NYC or Mexico City in prime time.
 
Well, since we're talking going divisionless, can we also make Notre Dame become a full member? It's bull**** that they can get away with being one foot in the door, one foot out.
 
So Clemson’s schedule will never play hs again now that we have a legit staff. Good timing
 
Costy21 said:
The sec is going to have to do this also with OU and UT coming in. How could they realign that unless Alabama and Auburn move to the East and UT OU stay in the West.
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They would follow the Mizzou route and put OU in the east with OU being TX cross division rival.
 
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Do wish we had a couple years of destroying the coastal like we should have been doing. But being in Ohio I would love to get more opportunities to see the canes @ UL in KY
 
One other good thing about no divisions in the ACC:

I know I'm not the only who cannot off the top of my head remember the other 6 teams in the Coastal (other than it's not the semenholes or Clemson).

I mean who came up with this haphazard alignment.

Even the Big Ten was smart enough to switch to an East and a West because nobody knew who the **** was in the Leaders and Legends divisions.
 
RightSaidFred said:
Money. Better matchups for TV, especially the championship game. They want to be able to match up the two best teams for the championship game regardless of division.

Also, it gives the ACC somewhat of a better shot at getting a 1 loss team in the playoffs, because it makes the championship more likely to be a "a quality win."

Not sure if that was in this particular article, but it's been in others since the conference expansion stuff started. The ACC has been kicking this around since OU and Texas went to the SEC.
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We saw how well that worked for the big 12.
 
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