I wonder if it would be possible to review the permanent opponents to reassign them every 4 years to rebalance the teams. I think they play everybody at least twice by then. Probably not, but it would keep the parity.The thing about all this is that every team will rotate so often that it almost doesn’t matter. I’m ok with the 1-7-7 model too for that reason. I think the variety will be refreshing versus what we have had since 92.
I think more teams are worried about the financial effect of 4 home games one year and 5 home games the next year.