David Josselyn writes:
>On Tue, 12 Apr 1994, Ralph Christopher Slate wrote:
>>                  Then, Division III schools could not get any of the
>> money from the tournament.
>>    In other words, if RPI won the NCAA Championship, they would get $0.
>
>But if a school like RPI, playing only ONE D1 sport, assuming that it's
>likely that prohibitive cost is at least part of the reason WHY the
>school doesn't field D1 teams across the board, would then be DENIED any
>money from winning the tourney?
 
The rule was that all of the money from all of the tourneys in each
division went into a pool (DivI hoop + DivI hockey + ...), and only
schools from that division could share in the profits.  For example,
Syracuse is a DivI school, so even though they do not have an NC$$
hockey team, they could technically share in the profits from the DivI
hockey tourney.  But RPI, which is a DivIII school, could share in the
profits from the DivIII hockey tourney but not the DivI tourney - even
though their hockey team actually competes in DivI.
 
The idea behind this had more to do with hoop.  As the hoop tourney
became more and more profitable, the NC$$ believed that some DivII and
DivIII schools were pushing their hoop teams up to the DivI level - even
if they were not competitive - just to share in the profits from the
DivI tourney.  So the NC$$ decided that you can only share in profits
from your own division, based on school classification.
 
I do not think this rule has changed, although I thought I heard
someone suggest a little while ago that it had.  I would be interested
to hear one way or the other.
 
I do believe that the NC$$ would like all schools to play all sports
within their division of classification, but that is just my opinion.
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