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CONFERENCE STANDINGS 2009
Conference
Champions (FBS)
What is
the Excellence in Management Cup?
The Excellence
in Management Cup was established by the Laboratory for the Study of
Intercollegiate Athletics (LSIA) at Texas A&M University in order to
address the question of:
Who is the most
economically efficient athletic department in Football Bowl
Subdivision (formerly Division I-A)? The unique, yet
simple, scoring system awards more points to athletic departments
that win conference and national championships while efficiently
allocating money to win these championships. Other championship
cups do not address natural competitive advantages given to
universities that have higher operating budgets and play more sports
(thus, more opportunities to win championships).
The Scope
and Purpose of the EM Cup
The purpose of
the EM Cup is to bring awareness about NCAA athletic departments
that are maximizing fiscal resources leading to championship
victories. In other words, when less money is spent winning
championships will lead to a higher score in the Excellence in
Management Cup.
How are
the EM Cup scores calculated?
Because
athletic departments are unique from one another in size, economic
strength, and number of opportunities available to win
championships, the EM Cup results are calculated using a formula
that will even the playing field.
A database was
created to tally the following information in the scoring system
depicted below pictorially. National and conference champions are
tallied for each NCAA and Conference-specific sanctioned sport and
awarded to the winners. More value is placed upon the national
championships than conference championships in the formula. Then,
each the athletic department’s operating expenses and number of
sports played at the university are entered into the database. This
information was collected from the EADA reports and individual
athletic department websites. In order to make the scores more
manageable, the entire equation is multiplied by 100,000,000.

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