This is a hot topic in the ACC world.
As it stands right now there looks to be two divisions -North and South. The problem is who is the seventh team in the North?
Six are set - Cuse, Pitt, BC, MD, UVA and VT. The seventh will come from Wake, NC State or Clemson. The only reason Clemson may be #7 is the desire to keep te four NC schools together. Unfortunately, I have a sinking feeling that if the ACC stays at fourteen, Wake will be odd man out.
I think the internal setup problems will the prime factor in wanting to expand to sixteen teams. The talk regarding sixteen teams has centered around two eight team football divisions and four pods of four teams each for basketball.
In football, you'd play each team in your division and two or three teams out of the division in a rotating manner.
In basketball, you'd play your pod home and home and everyone else once a year with homecourt laternating every other year. You guys would get Duke, Carowhina, etc., every other year at the Carrier Dome.
As it stands right now there looks to be two divisions -North and South. The problem is who is the seventh team in the North?
Six are set - Cuse, Pitt, BC, MD, UVA and VT. The seventh will come from Wake, NC State or Clemson. The only reason Clemson may be #7 is the desire to keep te four NC schools together. Unfortunately, I have a sinking feeling that if the ACC stays at fourteen, Wake will be odd man out.
I think the internal setup problems will the prime factor in wanting to expand to sixteen teams. The talk regarding sixteen teams has centered around two eight team football divisions and four pods of four teams each for basketball.
In football, you'd play each team in your division and two or three teams out of the division in a rotating manner.
In basketball, you'd play your pod home and home and everyone else once a year with homecourt laternating every other year. You guys would get Duke, Carowhina, etc., every other year at the Carrier Dome.