Millennial_Messiah
12-23-2020, 12:23 PM
It makes sense. Yes you lose some per-game revenue but you help player safety and you probably get to eliminate back to backs and "load management" games altogether this way. Barring injury you get the best players available for every single game. Quality over quantity, like the NFL, while keeping the mid October - mid June general time frame for the length of the season + playoffs. The top players don't want to play 82 games anymore. It's time for a change.
I'd even be in favor of bringing back the 66-game season from 2012 [to me, this is the best idea], just changed differently from that poorly designed year... i.e. each team should still play the home-and-aways out of conference games (total of 30), four games (two home-and-aways) against each division rival (total of 16) and the home-and-aways against each non-division in-conference opponent (total of 20) for a grand total of 66.
I'd even be in favor of bringing back the 66-game season from 2012 [to me, this is the best idea], just changed differently from that poorly designed year... i.e. each team should still play the home-and-aways out of conference games (total of 30), four games (two home-and-aways) against each division rival (total of 16) and the home-and-aways against each non-division in-conference opponent (total of 20) for a grand total of 66.