(01-29-2016 08:05 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(01-29-2016 07:48 PM)NoDak Wrote:  The new Big East did not get a waiver. The existing rules allowed it.

No they didn't. The rules you're talking about were junked to save the WAC.

Quote:SJ, Providence, Vill, Georgetown, SH, Marq, and DePaul met the continuity requirement. Seven school eight years. Case closed.

I googled up the 2012-13 NCAA manual , and followed pretty much the same chain of references. There's nothing about seven schools for eight years. The conference has to have continuity for eight years.

If you had a citation to back up what you're saying about the *current* (and current-as-of-2012-13) rules, that would be great.

The group of schools which were the C7 had established continuity for eight years, even if it was in the old Big East. The NCAA doesn't gratuitously offer autobids.

The A10 can do the same thing as long as those seven schools have eight years of continuity between them.

The same principle allowed the single sport conference, the NCHC, to immediately have an autobid as six schools were together for more than two years in the WCHA. That group separated from the WCHA plus two more and we're granted an autobid right away.

Single sport conferences require six schools together for two years, not seven together for eight years like multisport conferences.