I agree with what Bishop Athanasius Schneider said a few months ago in an interview he gave in the UK. If I recall correctly, he said that the problems that will come from the synod will reveal how serious the crisis is. Which will be a good thing, IMO. So many in the Church don't think there's a problem. Bp. Schneider said also that he can forsee a split coming,leading to an eventual renewal along traditional lines, but that this won't before the crisis has plunged the Church into further disarray, and that eventually the man-centered clerical system will collapse. He also said that traditional Catholics may be persecuted or discriminated against, but that eventually the Supreme Magisterium will issue an unequivocal doctrinal statement rejecting any collaboration with neo-pagan ideas.
Bp. Schnieder says that trads will be persecuted and discriminated against, but that's already been going on for a long time now. Maybe he thinks that it will get worse - I dunno.
There's also an interesting article on the Eponymous Flower blog which gives a testimony of a nun (in Rome, I think) showing that Benedict XVl was indeed forced out of the papacy.
I think that if Benedict was still pope in the event of a schism, the revolutionaries would be breaking away form the Pope. But with Francis at the helm, the revolutionaries will stay in Rome, and maybe faithful Catholics in the hierarchy will be tempted to leave instead. I think that it will be a terrible mess. It will be "cardinals opposing cardinals, I think."
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-resignation-of-benedict-xvi-from.html