How to divide the new Big 12

[wazucat]

keep all of the remaining original Big 8 schools together in one division , I'm not interested in being part of a reconstituted Southwest Conference

[CaptainEric37]

Agreed. Old vs New was just an alignment for discussion. Travel for the "New" teams would be bad. It will be interesting how divisions are set. I could see this:

West: BYU, OSU, BU, TTU, TCU, UH
East: KU, KSU, ISU, WVU, UC, UCF

Personally, I would split the Texas teams, 2 in each division.

Yeah. May be move at least one texas school in the other pod.

Into the realm of craziness....

How about this one:
Red/Orange: OSU, TTU, UH, UC, KU, ISU
Others: BU, TCU, KSU, BYU, UCF, WVU

Or this one:
Animals: BU, TCU, KSU, BYU, UH, UC
Not?: OSU, TTU, UCF, WVU, ISU, KU

[dlc]

The former way of dividing the conference meant playing an opponent in the other division half the time. That is too little. I would suggest 3 pods of 4. Three games against your own pod, play three teams from the other 2 pods every year. That way you are playing 3/4 of the teams every year. Playing every team at least 3 times in 4 years.

[Mrylndcat]

I'm ssure they will come up with a plan we never thought of. They won't draw a line dividing the conference into a strict
north/south or east/west. It will be a combination of everything trying to satisfy each team and unlike what we would draw up.

[rajstat]

Yeah. May be move at least one texas school in the other pod.

Into the realm of craziness....

How about this one:
Red/Orange: OSU, TTU, UH, UC, KU, ISU
Others: BU, TCU, KSU, BYU, UCF, WVU

Or this one:
Animals: BU, TCU, KSU, BYU, UH, UC
Not?: OSU, TTU, UCF, WVU, ISU, KU

Red/orange one is pretty good. I don't think these are crazy ones. You need 2 new schools and 2 Texas schools in each division.

[Nolaeer]

WVU is already challenged with travel. there's no way any AD would suggest BYU and WVU be in the same division.
Oklahoma State is going to insist on having all the Texas teams in its division. Travel will be huge bc of the paycut.

East: WVU, Kstate, Kansas, ISU, UCF, Cinn
West: Baylor, TT, BYU, Houston, Oklahoma State, TCU,

Pretty simple.

Likely play everyone in your division every year plus 4 from the other division, so a team will only miss 2 teams a year.
If they add Memphis and USF, then kansas' schools will move to west div.

[ChemicalKat]

WVU is already challenged with travel. there's no way any AD would suggest BYU and WVU be in the same division.
Oklahoma State is going to insist on having all the Texas teams in its division. Travel will be huge bc of the paycut.

East: WVU, Kstate, Kansas, ISU, UCF, Cinn
West: Baylor, TT, BYU, Houston, Oklahoma State, TCU,

Pretty simple.

Likely play everyone in your division every year plus 4 from the other division, so a team will only miss 2 teams a year.
If they add Memphis and USF, then kansas' schools will move to west div.

Looks good. This is the likely format.