(08-09-2021 06:30 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(08-09-2021 05:46 PM)herdfan129 Wrote:  I could be wrong, but isn’t being an AQ conference more than just basketball, but all of those sports?

If that’s the case then we have the same argument as the Big East in the other sports as we get multiple bids every year in soccer, baseball, softball etc... Marshall also won the national championship in soccer last year.

But track which of the arguments are regarding the explicit argument for the waiver, and which of the arguments are political arguments.

There is a reason that basketball is the only one in the bylaws with a guarantee of having games on TV and a guarantee of 34 at-large places. That is because Basketball is the one that pays the bills at the NCAA, and its the one that has been the focus of a long process of haggling over spots.

But the explicit argument for the waiver is the establishment of a conference process for the split designed around the prevailing NCAA rule at the time, which had been changed less than two years before the timing for the split had "matured".

The political argument would be that it wouldn't really be likely to take away at-large spots from any other basketball power conference, so there wouldn't be any reason for the power conferences to lobby against granting the waiver.

For the latter, the AQ for other sports doesn't matter, because the power conferences are not going to fight in the same way for those at-large spots. There is a reason why there is no guarantee of a minimum number of at large spots, there is no guarantee that play-in games are handled by the NCAA, and there is no guarantee of a television broadcast for any other championship ... nobody cares as much about the exposure in any other championship as the NCAA men's basketball tourney, and no other championship generates revenue sharing units that many low major conferences use to fund their conference activities.

Ok. So my question still remains. Does the AQ ruling apply to all of the other sports too or just basketball? I never claimed the other sports made the same amount of money as basketball. Just a general question about the process for other sports.