[Crafter Artisan]

This change is a little perplexing, and has a guinea-pig experiment feel to it.  This would make more sense if our conference were like the Big Ten or ACC with 14+ teams, but our 18-game schedule gives us a perfectly fine arrangement where we play one pair of schools at home only, another pair of schools away only and everyone else twice.  Now in order to pack the extra games in they have to split each region's pairs in apparently arbitrary fashion.  It looks like they're trying to figure out something new for after next season when we will have completed the double pentagram, or the "10-year cycle" as they call it.

[Crafter Artisan]

This change is a little perplexing, and has a guinea-pig experiment feel to it.  This would make more sense if our conference were like the Big Ten or ACC with 14+ teams, but our 18-game schedule gives us a perfectly fine arrangement where we play one pair of schools at home only, another pair of schools away only and everyone else twice.  Now in order to pack the extra games in they have to split each region's pairs in apparently arbitrary fashion.  It looks like they're trying to figure out something new for after next season when we will have completed the double pentagram, or the "10-year cycle" as they call it.