(01-13-2017 11:02 AM)MplsBison Wrote: (01-13-2017 10:52 AM)NoDak Wrote: you reject logic because you don't agree with its end result.
Describes you to a T.
Logic says that if the WAC gave an invitation to UND, and then UND suddenly declared "we're FBS now, because WAC used to be FBS and there's this rules that says so", the NCAA would laugh at you.
You are confusing the NCAA with a logic based institution.
It is a rule based institution.
Logic says the continuity rule should be about having played together for a certain number of years, but, to avoid the continuity rule killing the WAC, they dropped the language that made it about previous years, and magically "shall establish continuity" became something a conference could do starting from the present into the future.
You are also engaging in a straw man fallacy argument, given that your characterization of what is claimed is quite clearly not the process previously described ... that is, a school turning around after joining the WAC and saying "we are FBS now!" is nothing like the process described above.
The invitation and the declaration by the school that they are transitioning would be by May of a year and the transition would start. So that transition would have to include a declared plan for how all Div I FBS requirements are met.
So if there is no plan for how they will meet the 60% FBS games requirement and the 5 FBS home games requirement starting in year two, the application could indeed be knocked back as not satisfying the NCAA rules.
That is why a "critical mass" of schools are required to get things going ... and why the WAC exception to the FBS invitation rule is not an open door to single schools becoming FBS independents.
So all it would really take to close the door would be to amend the FBS home game counter rule to say only one transitioning FBS school home game can count, and the WAC loophole would be closed, and it would instead become a break glass in case of emergency system for rescuing a small group of Go5 schools stranded by some future wave of realignment.