and it didn't work out well for them. It is possible conference are worried that history might repeat itself if they try the pod/quad method. Some reasons the 8 schools left the WAC to form the MWC are as follows:

1. Teams were unhappy with which quad they were placed in.

2. Teams and their fans were unhappy that they were selected to be in the 2 quads that rotated every 2 years. It made it tougher for everyone to know which teams were in which division in a given year.

3. Rotating pods/quads make it tougher for teams to develop rivalries with the other members in the division. Rivalries would basically be limited to the 3 other teams assigned to the pod/quad and the 1 team paired for the protected cross-division game.

4. Once a conference grows to a certain number of members, it stops feeling like a conference and it starts feeling more like a confederation. Maybe 16 is that "magic number."

5. Rivalries get impacted since it is unlikely a team will be placed in the same pod/quad with all of its rivals. For example, the BYU-Hawai'i rivalry suffered because they were placed in different quads.