Quote from: uwwcontra2007 on March 26, 2025, 05:31:33 PMI was thinking it might be Keystone.  I can't find anything on them for this upcoming year, and they aren't showing up on any Landmark Conference opponents' schedules.  What's up with Keystone?

The Landmark issued a new conference master schedule in December, swapping out Keystone for Western Connecticut.

Quote from: IC798891 on March 27, 2025, 10:14:58 AMYou're unwilling to engage in good-faith discussions, you deserve every bit of criticism.

Go spew your false equivalency of the workloads of pre-med majors and business/comms majors to someone who might be naive enough to be fooled by it.

Hi -- I know you can be more civil than this. Please do so.

Quote from: DagarmanSpartan on March 27, 2025, 07:28:12 AMYa know, I am surprised that Saint Francis didn't consider joining the D1-FCS non-scholarship Pioneer Football Conference, which includes Butler, Drake, Stetson, etc.

To do that, you have to be in D-I for everything else.

Quote from: el_jefe_90 on March 25, 2025, 12:00:57 PMYou may recall Wesleyan also was ranked #1 for the first time ever this season. Wonder how many instances two teams from the same conference had their first ever #1 rankings in the same season.

In fact, it happened twice this year, as Emory and NYU did the same thing.

Quote from: The Third Division on March 25, 2025, 12:38:37 PMPer a source who knows a kicker at St. Francis "Almost the entire team is gonna transfer."

Pretty obvious there.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 25, 2025, 06:00:32 PMWhere is Hartford likely to land in 2025-26?  CNE?

They are there already and have been since they moved.
https://d3sports.com/notables/2022/06/hartford-finds-its-d3-home
(Was named the CCC when this was written.)

Quote from: Crubacker on March 25, 2025, 05:20:49 PMHard to imagine a school transitioning from D1 to D3.

Fourth time in 20 years -- not super often, but I bet it will be more than four schools in the next 20.

https://d3sports.com/notables/2025/03/st-francis-coming-to-d3

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Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 24, 2025, 10:19:04 AMWe're told it will be Thursday - Saturday for the rounds of 8 and 4 in Fort Wayne (March 19 and 21).  The final will be played two weeks later in Indianapolis on the day between the D1 semis and final, along with the D2 final.  That will be April 5th, Easter Sunday!

So the 2 final teams are going to be off for 2 weeks before they play the final? That is just plain stupid! NCAA at its best. This is just another of many reasons why the ncaa won't be around in another 10 years.

The NCAA survived when this happened in 2013.

Quote from: The Third Division on March 24, 2025, 02:20:33 PM

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Quote from: Mavchamp on March 23, 2025, 04:36:38 PMI think affiliates count towards an AQ...... provided I'm reading this article from Pat Coleman correctly
 
https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2022/01/d3-reduces-aq-requirements

It states that it was 7....but reduced to six schools for the AQ.

"extending automatic qualification status to essentially any group of.....schools offering a sport"

The question is.....

Can the ASC and the SCAC both move forward with six for 2026?

SCAC:  Austin College, TLU, Centenary, Lyon, Hendrix

ASC:  UMHB, HSU, ETBU, HPU, McMurry, Schriener

Can the SCAC get Trinity or Southwestern to stay instead of moving to the SAA?  Can they get someone from the Sooner Conference to come over?  Louisiana Christian?  Nelson?  Maybe Belhaven?

Can the ASC lure more from the SCAC?  Will Sul Ross return to D3?  Can they get LCU or Nelson?  Belhaven?

If I'm reading the 2023-2024 DIII Manual correctly, it appears the SCAC will have to have 6 football members for two years before they get an AQ?

Taken from: NCAA Publications

So how did the Landmark get their auto bid in their first season? By starting with 7?

The Landmark had six full members sponsoring football in their first season. Keystone as an affiliate did not factor in because there were six core members already sponsoring the sport.

If you are using an affiliate as one of your six, then that triggers the waiting period.

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 23, 2025, 01:28:00 PMYeah, there were a few comments on Twitter commenting on the play, "It looks like a WIAC game." Not sure if they knew they were actual WIAC officials.

We definitely posted that they were WIAC officials, yep.

Quote from: ronk on March 19, 2025, 07:06:18 PM

Quote from: Augie2020 on March 19, 2025, 09:13:01 AMThen why bring it up,If you didn't think someone should be on it? Especially on the womens board.

 Will McLoughlin was the only multi-year(2025,2023) Landmark 1st teamer not to make all-region this season after being all-region previously(2023). Should have merited serious consideration.

Good news! He received serious consideration.

Quote from: Augie2020 on March 19, 2025, 09:13:01 AMThen why bring it up,If you didn't think someone should be on it? Especially on the womens board.

For the sake of completeness?
To continue the group's general conversation about how disappointing they find the Scranton MBB team to be?

While an interesting idea, I don't think you'd get a lot of coaches eager to hamper their own season in order to possibly be present for a hypothetical Elite 8 game.

I think it's much more likely to get spring break adjusted so that it falls on a different week.

No, I mean literally the SIAC that jknezek mentioned.

https://thesiac.com/sports/2018/7/9/gen_0709184210.aspx?path=gen

Quote from: jknezek on March 17, 2025, 03:41:31 PMThat's a good pickup for the SCIAC. Should ease scheduling. I'd love to see DIII pick up a D2 conference in the southeast and fill in some holes. Something like D2's SIAC moving to D3 would really help with scheduling for the the southeastern D3s. And I still struggle to see the benefits of D2 for smaller private schools.

Everytime I hear about an E&H or a Ferrum I just shake my head. I get it, they are trying to stand out in a crowded D3 environment, but I find it hard to believe it makes economic sense.

Good job picking up Azusa Pacific. They were a D2 orphan, so it makes sense.

So many of those SIAC athletic departments are so underfunded. I don't know that they'd do any better in D-III.

We might have a better chance of getting Big South members to come to D-III. Would love to have them fill in our map.