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Post by Gnocchi on Apr 4, 2013 13:56:26 GMT -5
The only way the AAC can "steal" a bid is if its tournament champion is given an automatic bid, increasing the number of automatic bids from 31 to 32 and, by definition, reducing by 1 or "stealing" an at-large bid. Presumably the AAC will not get an automatic bid because it will have fewer than 7 teams in the same conference for the preceding years. If the new Big East and the AAC have only 1 automatic bid between them next season it amounts to the same thing as having 1 large conference with 1 automatic bid, with everybody else in the 2 conferences vying for at-large bids -- no different from before the new Big East and AAC were formed.
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Post by big5time on Apr 4, 2013 14:39:40 GMT -5
Gnocchi... Actually, the football schools are retaining the auto-bid per this article... Linkand the new basketball league is going to secure an auto bid per ESPN... "The email details that the league needs the old Big East to have a new name before the May 2 NCAA board of directors meeting so the new Big East can be recognized as a full NCAA member with all rights afforded it, including automatic bids to NCAA championships."
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Post by vasalos on Apr 4, 2013 15:19:55 GMT -5
Both conferences will have an auto bid. They just need to apply. We need the CAA or CUSA to merge with another conference
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Post by Gnocchi on Apr 4, 2013 16:10:22 GMT -5
Gnocchi... Actually, the football schools are retaining the auto-bid per this article... Linkand the new basketball league is going to secure an auto bid per ESPN... "The email details that the league needs the old Big East to have a new name before the May 2 NCAA board of directors meeting so the new Big East can be recognized as a full NCAA member with all rights afforded it, including automatic bids to NCAA championships." Thanks for the clarification caused by confusion from the assertion that the new league does not have an automatic bid so it is in reality a bid stealer. From your information the reverse is true and it's simple, as I mentioned earlier: with a new league there now will be an additional automatic bid, leaving one fewer at-large bid -- 36 instead of the current 37. Just found this link: basketball.about.com/od/teamsandconferences/a/great-west.htmThe NCAA requires the following of any league before it will grant an automatic bid to its champion: At least seven schools that are fully-fledged members of Division I At least seven "core" members that have been in Division I for at least eight years At least six "core" members that have been in the league for five years The interesting wrinkle is that the Catholic 7 qualifies under the 3rd criterion (assuming that having been together in the old Big East equates to "have been in the league for five years") but the AAC would not because next season it will have only 5 core members in the league for 5 years: Louisville, Rutgers, Cincy, UConn and USF. Presumably the old Big East, now the AAC, got to keep the automatic bid with only 5 core teams remaining because the old Big East wasn't technically dissolved when the 7 members bolted, so the automatic bid stayed with the remaining core members even though there are only 5. The Catholic 7 or new Big East seems to meet the criteria for an automatic bid.
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