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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 1057307, member: 1145"]
But that rivalry was in basketball, only.

The simple fact is that when a conference expands, if it does so in such a way that charter members, and that goes at least double for the most important charter members, are upset, not irritated but truly upset, then you have the recipe for implosion.

For many fans of charter and more recent ACC schools, the answer to what you propose would be to have a division of former BE schools. And that would be rejected by 100% of the former BE schools. Some of you fans might think you want that, but none of your ADs would.

And for a conference that lacks, in comparison to the SEC and Big Ten especially, rivalries that are ancient played between schools with large fan bases, it is incumbent on the league to protect as many old games as possible.

I don't think that any divisions we could devise would please any fan base or any AD for long. That is just the nature of the league, of the type schools we have in the locations they are with the football histories they have. Until the recent move to 14, the SEC divisions seemed absolutely perfect, the best working in the country. Even so, LSU was complaining about scheduling based on those divisions a half decade before the move to 14.

The only thing that can work well for all of us is to junk divisions and play 3+5 (5).
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