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RE: Final 2016 NCAA Basketball Fund Units earned and 2017 Payouts
(03-27-2016 01:40 PM)adcorbett Wrote: (03-27-2016 12:55 PM)stever20 Wrote: For there to have been a change, it would have had to be voted on by the NCAA at the convention....
I'm on my phone, and I can't cut and paste all of the info. There are a couple of items that seem to be able to interpreted either way, but this one is worth mentioning...
NCAA Wrote:The basketball fund is distributed to Division I conferences based on their performance in the Division I Men’s Basketball tournament over a six-year rolling period. The 2014 distribution is based on units earned from 2008 to 2013. Independent institutions receive a full unit share based on its tournament participation over the same rolling six-year period. The basketball fund payments are sent to conferences and independent institutions in mid-April.
If a new member participates in the Division I Men’s basketball tournament in March-April 2014, the units for participants will be included in the Basketball Distribution in April 2015.
One unit is awarded to each institution participating in each game, except the championship game. Units are retained by the Conference in which they are earned. In 2013, each basketball unit was approximately $245,500 for a total $188.3 million distribution.
In 2014, each basketball unit will be approximately $250,100 for a total $193.58 million distribution.
For the purpose of distributing the basketball fund, a conference is defined as one that comprises at least six member institutions that are classified as Division I for eight preceding academic years. If a conference falls below the six-member requirement, the basketball fund is retained by the conference for a one-year period only.
The following policies also apply when a conference’s membership changes or realignment occurs:
A. If an institution leaves a conference and realigns with another and its original conference remains in operation, the units it earned remain with the conference that it left.
B. If an institution leaves a conference to become an independent, the units that the institution earned are retained by the conference that it left.
C. If an independent institution joins a conference, it retains the units it earned as an independent prior to the date it elected to join the conference; any units the institution earns subsequent to that date accrue to the conference.
D. If a conference disbands, each institution retains the units it earned in the basketball fund.
E. If an institution leaves a conference and the conference falls below the six-member requirement, the units remain with the conference for a one-year period; however, if the conference then later disbands, those units return to the basketball fund.
F. If 50 percent or more of the member institutions in a given conference leave the conference simultaneously and the remaining conference membership falls below six member institutions, the conference shall be considered disbanded and each member institution shall retain the units it earned in the basketball fund as if the conference had in fact disbanded.
Reading part F, it would seem to indicate that the original Big East could have been deemed disbanded, and the teams that left (probably including West Virginia) may have actually retained their own rights, and transferred them to their new conference, since their definition of a disbanded conference fits the Big East in 2013-14. 10
Members left in one year, the C7, ND, Cuse, and Pitt, and only five of the original remained (UConn, Cincy, USF, Rutgers, and Louisville). That would be "disbanded" by that definition. So perhaps it is true.
I guess we'll see in about two years when the NCAA updates their distribution reports (they are usually two calendar years behind, as only 2014's is now currently available.
The Big East was very careful not to disband, as it would have caused the loss of all of the Syracuse, West Virginia and Pittsburgh units. I'm guessing the C7 had the ability to cause disbandment, which would have allowed them to keep their own credits, but would have been a nuclear option. This leverage allowed them to negotiate to keep their credits, the Big East name, etc.
Also, the NCAA distribution for 2014-15 is available and clearly shows, the American keeping all of the credits, even from the C7 and Notre Dame, which is why I included separate adjusted and unadjusted tabs.
http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/...nFinal.pdf
(This post was last modified: 03-27-2016 02:03 PM by orangefan.)
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