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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 276283, member: 1145"]
I think that is as good good an analysis making the case for basic North/South divisions, but with Miami in the North, as I've seen.
 
His ending noting that many want to see the NC schools split is the reason we have the divisions we have. When we went to 12, many boosters of Wake and NCSU felt they had been assured that they would be in the same division with UNC and Dook. But there were unrelenting demands made to split the NC schools.
 
Maryland wanted them split to try to keep them from being a voting block in the league and to mess up their rivalries perhaps to help Maryland basketball become bigger (say, if Dook no longer plays NCSU twice per year, Maryland can be a bigger rival for Dook than is NCSU).
 
GT demanded the NC schools be split because GT wanted North/South divisions.
 
FSU and Miami demanded the NC schools be split because they wanted to be split and neither wanted to be in a division with 4 NC teams.
 
Of the above, only Maryland's opposition to North+Miami/South divisions would remain strong. But UVA would [B][I]HATE [/I][/B]not being in a division with UNC and Dook, and VT would be almost as angry about not having 2 NC schools in its division. The adamant opposition of that trio would be enough to keep the divisions we have with Pitt tossed into 1 and Cuse into the other. The divisions we have are the great compromise that nobody liked much but that everybody could live with. I don't think they will be messed with until Notre Dame joins.
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