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(01-30-2016 03:12 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(01-30-2016 03:10 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(01-30-2016 02:59 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(01-30-2016 02:41 PM)NoDak Wrote:  If any seven grouping has been together eight years, wants to form another conference, and would meet the definition of a conference with the needed sports for an autobid, the court would find in their favor. The NCAA would have to pay big time damages if it didnt, unless the NCAA again change the rules before hand.

They changed the rules already. In 2011. I'm pretty sure you're just trolling at this point.

Not trolling. You and others just don't get it. The Big East didn't have any favors done to them to get an autobid, no matter what you think.

"Others", including the people who wrote the NCAA manual. Those dopes don't get it. NoDak knows the score.

The NCAA formerly had a rule where new DI teams could transition over five years and then over eight years become a core member and form a conference. The term "core member" was dropped and the transition was dropped to four years, but DII schools can only move up if they had a bid from an existing confernce. The eight year continuity rule remains in place, as shown by the new Big East getting an autobid. New conferences by definition can no longer form from DII members, so those rules became superfluous and we're dropped.

All the rules about a new conference forming from DII moveups went away, not the continuity requirements that went with them. There is still eight years continuity for seven members. The P5 wants that to protect themselves from an unforseen event, i.e. something worse than Paterno. The new Big East took advantage of it. As a Big East fan on this board it must be pretty shameful not to know that, so understand that your pride was wounded.

I been following the rules since I was a teen in the 70s. They've changeded massively from the days the Big South and Transamerica moved to DI from DII. The MWC, Great Midwest, American South, and CUSA didnot get autobids right off the bat.