By the time I was involved with the D1 event (I started in '87), the main determination for the number of qualifiers per conference was the collective conference team score. Apparently, the Southern and SEC had waned considerably by then. The committee asked me to do the conference team score calculations and give my conclusions. The algorithm was simply (total conference score / total tournament score) * 330. IIRC, D2, D3 were always 20 and 10. I assume that by conclusions they weren't looking for wise-ass but wanted the number of qualifiers. But I decided to use this one as a loophole. As it turned out one of the conferences "earned" 0.6 qualifiers and the other 0.4. So in conclusion I suggested merging the conference and qualifying only the OW.
They didn't use my conclusion.
TBH, I didn't feel like listening to 10 minutes just now but did he say a loophole as to NCAA rules or to Ivy rules? Since Ivy rules are more stringent in this area it would seem to be more of an Ivy loophole.
And all the previous generation (at least the males) were apostle names. John, Mark, Matthew, Luke, Jude, Andrew, Thomas and Simon. Sister Nancy Jean Skove (they told me as in NJS- New Jersey States)
No, completely disagree other than it would help if we had big donors. I'm in the present and it's the way it is because we DON'T have those donors and aren't likely to.
RTC's can work in freestyle because there are so many practicing and coaching you can split them up like this. They visit each other.
There aren't enough Grecoites to warrant more than a couple training sites.