I understand your point, but I totally disagree with you. You have to consider the developpement factor: BBW has a good team now, but a relatively small arena and high wages. That means he doesn't earn any money.
You just have to play it like HBH: train your players, upgrade your arena in order to earn more and then when you get enough cash to build a stronger team than all your opponents you go for it and promote. This could happen in 3-4 season, just the time to get ready not only to promote be to stay in div 2!
BBW and geoffrey have a very low devoppement potential, while the other conference has absolutely no dangerous team. If BBW does't promote now, he'll never get out of this.
On another note, I'll fight for the first seed next week. That's gonna be one really interesting game! I'll probably go LI / M2M... or do you guys have any suggestions?