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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 2781041, member: 3850"] The ACC will probably never have Northern and Southern Divisions. Although many fans like the idea of regional divisions. Although if they move to 16, there will have to be compromises. and there would be a tussle over Notre Dame. With Notre Dame still out there, I am sure there has been some noodling about what to do if they ever did go all in. Currently, playing a non division opponent at home (except for the one permanent crossover) once every 12 years is almost like not being in the same conference with them. So a team like FSU travels to Boston and Syracuse while not seeing GT in Tallahassee but every 12 years. GT, their closest rival who also plays in the city with FSU's largest out of state fan base. Two divisions of eight only compound that scheduling problem...it would be almost like having two different leagues whose champs play for a combined champion. ...ADs evidently do not want FSU and Miami to be in the same division. Programs fear not playing a Florida team would mean that Florida kids would grow up watching the southern division and would be more difficult to recruit. That may be one of the reasons that realignment of divisions has failed to carry the last three times it was brought to a vote. ...The density of ACC schools in Tobacco Road would mean that with FSU, Miami, GT, Clemson definitely in the South...and Cuse, BC, Pitt, Notre Dame definitely in the North.... ...that the Tobacco Road teams of UNC, Wake, NC State, Duke, Virginia, VT would have to be split...they are densely packed in the center of the conference. I think that, no matter what conference, going to a format of sixteen will cause scheduling problems and change the way that conferences are viewed... [/QUOTE]

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