The ITM Cup finals will take place this weekend. Canterbury will take on Auckland, in Christchurch in the Premiership on Saturday night and Hawkes Bay will take on Wellington in the Championship final, in Napier on Friday night.
Oago dipped out of the competition on Saturday night in Wellington in the Championship semifinal, going down to the men from the capital 34-14.
Overall, Otago had six wins and five losses and should be well satisfied with a season in which it scored some nice tries and made the playoffs.
Brown said the competition was great but he did think all teams should be in the one competition and everybody should play each other.
''There is no difference between the teams in the Premiership and the teams in the Championship. We had to have crossover games to play them but maybe we should get to play them all,'' he said.
''They could do away with the short turnarounds and just get everyone to play each other. They wanted to make the season shorter because of All Black tours but the All Blacks don't play in the competition now, anyway.''
He was also backed by Hawkes Bay chief executive Mike Bishop, who told the Stuff website last week all teams at the start of the season should have a chance to grab the national title.
The season was a 10-week competition with sides playing 10 games before the finals. Otago began its season on August 15 and played its final regular-season game on October 11.
Teams in each division, which have seven teams each, played each other before playing four teams from the other division.
Opponents were worked out by where teams finished the previous year and through selection.
That led to some lop-sided playing schedules. Otago had to play the top four teams in the Premiership this season while Wellington did not end up playing Auckland or Canterbury.
Brown said he could not see the problem of playing for another two weeks and teams would just have to live within their budgets.
Pre-season could perhaps be shorter.
All teams had to play once midweek and Brown said that was tough on sides, especially once players started picking up injuries.
In the 28 games between teams from the separate divisions, eight wins were recorded by the lower Championship division and there was a draw between Auckland and Southland.
Otago Rugby Football Union general manager Richard Kinley said in a perfect world it would be good for every team to play each other but the calendar did not allow that.
''If you go too late then it starts eating into All Black end-of-season tours. You could say All Blacks don't play in the competition but there is still Maori All Blacks and then there is leave for players to have before they join their Super rugby sides,'' Kinley said.
Kinley said the season could not start any earlier as it would encroach on the club season. Clubs wanted to have their better players available for the entire club season.
He said the draw was hard on teams but it was difficult to do it any other way. Otago getting the top four premiership teams was tough but there was no alternative.
Dunedin club rugby finished near the end of July and Otago then played three pre-season games, although not all players were available for them.
The national union is not looking at making any changes to the competition and a conference would be organised in the next month for teams to select their opponents for next year.
Otago will automatically host Counties-Manukau next year.
