Everyone seems to have a plan for fixing the NCAA post-season, but only those who take into mind tradition have any prayer of even being considered.

The first thing your plan lacks is any consideration of the current bowl games.  While nobody is going to miss the Poinsettia Bowl or the New Mexico Bowl, messing with the Rose, Cotton, Orange or Fiesta Bowl is going to get any plan knocked out of the water.  This is the reason they tried to implement the BCS system in the first place.

Second, assuming we can have a football conference and that schools could be re-alligned for other sports, your divisions are ignorant of many traditions.  Maybe you think Northwestern is a MAC team, but they are only 10-years removed from their last Rose Bowl appearance and they have won it once.  Indiana, on the other hand, has only been there once in all their history and lost that one appearance back in 1968.  Switch the sport to basketball, and Indiana is what gives the Big Ten respectability.  Actually, Penn State is the pretender in the Big Ten having only joined the conference back in 1990 making it literally the Big Eleven.

Hawaii has already been mentioned, but you did other silly things like putting Navy in the MAC, yet sticking Northern Illinois in the Sun Belt, putting Louisianna Tech and Memphis in the WAC and San Diego State in the Mountain West.

With all of these oversights, your article and proposal completely lose their credibility.

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