The logical 2012 scheduling solution - that's probably too easy

[Moontan]

Update: the "solution" presented here doesn't work from a MAC-standpoint. Probably best to ignore this thread.

Here's the logical plan that could (and still might) work:

1. Temple joins the Big East
2. 8 MAC teams are left with a scheduling hole
3. Temple and each of the other Big East programs agree to play a MAC team that would've been on Temple's schedule
4. BE balances things out so that each of the 7 other BE teams get one home game and one road game between their Temple and MAC games

Up side:

1. fixes BE scheduling issues
2. solves MAC scheduling holes
3. MAC can still have its championship game

Down side:

1. MAC has unbalanced divisions

Problems:

1. Yukon, Louisville, Rutgers & USF have already scheduled a 5th OOC game

Solution:

1. four BE members with 5 OOC games work with their OOC opponents to arrange that they play each other.
2. BE throws some cas$h at the MAC (or agrees to additional games) and the 4 affected OOC opponents to address any posible negative impact.

Conclusion: Every program has 12 games on their 2012 schedule... life goes on.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

The MAC's used to having unbalanced divisions. They had 13 teams last season.

They end up swapping UMass for Temple.

 

[Moontan]

They end up swapping UMass for Temple.

That's fine... as long as they're convinced to delay that until 2013.

 

[BlazeOrange]

Here's the logical plan that could (and still might) work:

1. Temple joins the Big East
2. 8 MAC teams are left with a scheduling hole.

Easiest MAC solution is that the teams with holes play each other to complete their conference schedule. If some of them were already scheduled, they can juggle with some of the other MAC teams. To do anything else would mean that teams scheduled to play Temple would have one less conference game than the rest of the MAC.

 

[Moontan]

To do anything else would mean that teams scheduled to play Temple would have one less conference game than the rest of the MAC.

Yeah, well there is that. It looked so good from a BE viewpoint... oh well. Back to the drawing board.

With every passing day, as other programs complete their schedules, it becomes clearer just what a mess the situation is. We can only hope that the braintrust at Manley has tentative solutions for both the Temple and non-Temple scenarios. Hopefully they won't be as bad as the worst possible scenarios that have been speculated here.

 

[bnoro]

We should contact an ACC school, buyout one of their non-BCS games, and schedule both them and the school we bought out. Easiest solution.

 

[Moontan]

That was already suggested. I even provided Manley with exact games where the change would appear to be an even exchange for the teams concerned, where it was even advantageous for our ACC partner, and where it fit in easily on our schedule. The publication of the ACC schedule indicates those either weren't considered or didn't work out. Of course, this was all suggested prior to the Temple revelation.

I'm curious to see how it will unfold.