Would a split have helped the split?

[Evolution]

Just a random thought I have been having. When WWE first split into 2 brands with Ric Flair owning RAW and Vince owning SmackDown, they picked guys who they wanted for their shows. Tag teams were split up (Dudleyz, APA).

However, this dominant force of nWo was left in tact on RAW. Why?

In my view, nWo splitting over both brands would have been great. At the time, nWo was Nash, X-Pac, Big Show and Hall.

Have Nash and X-Pac stay on RAW and Big Show and Hall go to SmackDown. Now, Hall was released, which is where you bring in Michaels. He was brought in late anyway to help the nWo, so you put him on SmackDown in Big Show's nWo. Maybe have him say he got rid of him because he wasn't nWo quality, and he brought in ol' HBK.

This way, on SmackDown more and more people are joining nWo (maybe even bring back LWO) and on RAW more people are joining. RAW's nWo could have the original white logo and SmackDown's could have a blue logo, then at joint PPV's they could feud against each other or try and lure people away from their brands/version.

Then people would watch both shows to see who would join that week and/or who would leave etc.

Meh, something similar was probably done in WCW.