08-07-2023, 05:17 PM
Thanks Matt.
I posted in another thread that Stanford was clearly the best California team of the 2010s and co-best in the Pacific Time Zone with Oregon. Unfortunately, none of that matters. Maryland and Rutgers have no place in the Big Ten historically, but at some point in time, the DC and NYC markets were coveted, so there they are. (The ACC GOR is a direct fallout from Maryland's defection - they knew who the Terps were, and let them off the hook. RIP DG)
Logic is playing no part in any of this.
Logic would lead to a relegation system. Chip Kelly could run it. He gets it.
64 teams in the premier league, geographically organized into 16 groups of four teams. The Pac4 stays like it is. Because. Round robin group play winners proceed to the knockout round as one of 16 seeded playoff teams. For the winning team and runner-up, that is four playoff games. Group play is three games, so 7 total. That leaves anywhere from 5 to 8 non-group games in which seeding and relegation points happen. Cumulative strength of opponents plays a prominent role to avoid nothing but body bag games. There are another 64 or so teams in the FCS (Football Championship Subdivision - Championship? that don't make no sense!) getting their own premier points ™ ready to move up and replace the bottom group finishers every year. Treble points for beating premier league teams and vice versa.
Prove me wrong. :)
I posted in another thread that Stanford was clearly the best California team of the 2010s and co-best in the Pacific Time Zone with Oregon. Unfortunately, none of that matters. Maryland and Rutgers have no place in the Big Ten historically, but at some point in time, the DC and NYC markets were coveted, so there they are. (The ACC GOR is a direct fallout from Maryland's defection - they knew who the Terps were, and let them off the hook. RIP DG)
Logic is playing no part in any of this.
Logic would lead to a relegation system. Chip Kelly could run it. He gets it.
64 teams in the premier league, geographically organized into 16 groups of four teams. The Pac4 stays like it is. Because. Round robin group play winners proceed to the knockout round as one of 16 seeded playoff teams. For the winning team and runner-up, that is four playoff games. Group play is three games, so 7 total. That leaves anywhere from 5 to 8 non-group games in which seeding and relegation points happen. Cumulative strength of opponents plays a prominent role to avoid nothing but body bag games. There are another 64 or so teams in the FCS (Football Championship Subdivision - Championship? that don't make no sense!) getting their own premier points ™ ready to move up and replace the bottom group finishers every year. Treble points for beating premier league teams and vice versa.
Prove me wrong. :)