(06-15-2017 02:10 PM)msm96wolf Wrote: TR,
Actually, the ACC is an equal revenue sharing conference. The NCAA Credits precisely work that way in the ACC, the money is divided up among the 15 schools. It has how the ACC has operated since day one. First link I found, http://www.technicianonline.com/sports/a...d16d5.html didn't really want to to an extensive google, you are welcome too.
but that article does not address at all what happens if a team is penalized by the NCAA
most conference bylaws have provisions for that
while one could argue that since Louisville cheated to get some of those players and thus won and earned money they were not entitled to that the conference as a whole really should not have been entitled to that money
but one can also argue that Louisville cheating and getting caught while other conference members are either not cheating or are better at not getting caught cheating is in fact detrimental to conference members that do not cheat because they are losing conference games to a team that cheated to get players and wins
so there should be some financial penalty to Louisville for doing so
if the conference was set to make $2.5 million per school or $37,500,00 total for 15 teams and Louisville brought in $5 million of that
so then you take $37.5 million minus the $5 million forfeited and get $32.5 million and you still divide that by 15 teams to get $2,166,666 per team then Louisville felt a loss of $333,333, but so did every other team in the conference
so how exactly is that really fair to the other members of the conference that did nothing wrong and that played by the rules and lost games to a team that was cheating
so if you take the $32,500,000 and divide by 14 then you get $2,321,428 and Louisville gets nothing so there is some damages/penalty that others are not feeling
but again you can make the argument that if Louisville was not cheating perhaps some other conference member might have made the tournament and thus that individual program or a couple of programs were impacted as well
or if Louisville had played by the rules and still was just as successful then everyone in the conference would be getting $2.5 million instead of $2,321,428 million
so should Louisville have to suffer the penalty of making everyone in the conference "whole" relative to what the earnings would be if they had the same success without the cheating
and I think one can make the argument that they should be required to do so and thus they should have $5 million held back from their total conference earnings and distributed to the rest of the conference equally
the article you linked discusses nothing about cheating or NCAA infractions or the conference dealings with that