As most of you know, I hate the way baseline is currently implemented. It artificially inflates prestige and does not provide any equality in regards to on-court performance. So this is my thought.

Baseline is, and should be, the expectation of a school. It should be what the boosters expect, not something that is forced into the recruiting process. What I propose is a low cap on schools, a point at which they cannot pass below and using baseline as the arbiter of hiring and firing. Thus if you have an elite like Duke or KU, their baseline is an A+; so you set that as the expectation: you must achieve that in a majority of the seasons you coach, or you get fired. The low cap for these schools would be at B. They will never drop below that, but it is thier on-court performance that must get them up to the A+ range. For most other BCS schools, B is the baseline and the low cap would be C-. Set the others at C and be done. There is a reason there is a quick hook in RL for those schools and WIS doesn't mirror that. And a low cap will ensure that those traditional powers don't ever fade into obscurity (though I'm in the camp that says that after the worlds are full we make our own destiny and WIS should treat all schools equally, put it on the court and let us determine our prestige there and there alone.) 

I would also tighten the hiring requirements for the high end schools so that the benefits (and pitfalls) are awarded to coachs who have proven high-end success.

Thoughts?