The existing one automatic promotion place would be supplemented by play-offs between the ninth-placed team in the toptier and three teams in the second tier.
Relying less on catenaccio, the name for the stifling brand of defense played in Italy, than sides in the toptier, Serie B teams often appeal to the purists because of their more open, less predictable games.
But political wrangling forced more teams into football's toptier than financially belonged, exacerbating the divisions that led the big schools to sue to gain their TV rights.
Williams has been a top-tier NBA point guard for a while, but he has done it for low-fi teams like Utah and Jersey, where attention is not a given, even in good years.