Complex sentence: The final straw came in spring 1998, when Brigham Young University and the University of Utah proposed a permanent split into two eight-team divisions, which would have forced some schools into an unnatural alignment because of the geographic distribution of the conference.
Split into simpler sentences: The final straw came in spring 1998, when Brigham Young University and the University of Utah proposed a permanent split into two eight-team divisions. This would have forced some schools into an unnatural alignment because of the geographic distribution of the conference.