[quote="1987alum"]Admittedly, I'm no expert, but I took a whack at it nonetheless. In this chart, E1 = MAC East Team 1, W2 = MAC West Team 2, etc.
Please tell me where the holes are ... I'll post this on the MAC board, too.
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Karl,
Fun to "brainstorm" on this little problem, right? How about THIS idea?
Since Temple is the "bastard child" of the MAC, let IT be a 'FLOATER' TEAM. in other words, neither East Nor West...but the rest of the league plays a "normal" schedule with Temple getting games with whoever needs an OOC game... I know, they're "supposed" to become members of the conference...but why should ANY of the established teams have scheduling problems because of them...let em play as an "independent" MAC school...then they could use it as a recruiting tool...(we "won" the IMAC).
Seriously, I think this is the best answer to a very complicated problem, which won't EVER be resolved as long as we stay a 13 team conference WITH divisions. Then, after this year, either add another team to balance out the league OR eliminate the division concept and play a straight eight game schedule with rotating teams ala the Big 11. If we still wanted to have a MAC "championship" game, take the teams with the two best conference records, regardless of where the usual "divisions" used to be, and let them play it off. Could result in a rematch of an earlier game, but what the heck!
