(10-19-2019 06:08 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  Why have any rules at all if they are to keep extending?

They really don't. They pretty much make it up ad hoc as they go along. Whatever the balance-of-forces will approve is approved, either through a waiver or by rearranging the rules to make it legal. And the balance-of-forces is, we now know, OK with an 11 team no-divisions AAC playing a championship game.

A couple of years ago, the balance-of-forces decided that they were OK with the Big 12 playing a CCG without expanding and, poof, the rules changed. (And the Sun Belt took advantage, booted NMSU and Idaho, and nobody who mattered cared.)

Does the ACC get their no-divisions CCG? No telling. We won't know until a decision is announced. The rules will stay the same, or the rules will change, depending on what the balance of power dictates.