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[QUOTE="riskylogic, post: 319677, member: 1415"]
[B]ND as a Semi-Full member: A 15 team proposal[/B]
 
If ND doesn’t want to come as a full member, I’d rather stick with 14 or take UConn and Rutgers. But, as a third alternative, I’d grudgingly accept the following three-pronged proposal, which lets ND play for the conference championship:
 
•Two divisions, one with seven teams, and another with eight. ND will always be in the seven team division.
•Within-division records will be the primary determinant of the conference champions. Extradivisional records would only be used to break ties. The teams in the eight team division would play two extradivisional games each for a total conference schedule of nine games, and 16 total intradivisional games. Four of the teams in the 7 team division would play 3 extradivisional games for a nine game conference schedule. Two of the teams would play two extradivisional games for an 8 game conference schedule. ND would play no extradivisional games for a six game conference schedule.  ND would just about always lose the tiebreaker.
•The memberships of the divisions will vary from year to year. Pods could be used to mix things up while still providing some consistency in the schedule.  ND would be in a three team pod, meaning two teams they play every year.  For example, the three possible combinations of the following pods could be cycled every three years:
 
Outlier Pod: BC Miami ND
Northern Pod: Maryland Pitt VT Syracuse
Central Pod: Duke NCSt UNC, UVa
Southern Pod: Clemson, FSI, GT, Wake
If ND could be coaxed into seven games, then you could add another team and have two 8 team divisions, and (4) 4 team pods.
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