John Jay College in NYC is in need of one more game. Home game needed, can return in 2026-27. Please contact LDay@jjay.cuny.edu with potential dates! Thank you

I could be wrong...but I don't think the TX state government pays for SCHOLARSHIPS.

Monies are given to state schools for athletic operating budgets....but not for scholarships.  That falls on the schools themselves through boosters, fundraising, sponsors, etc.....

But don't quote me on that.  I could be 100% wrong.

Quote from: Riley Zayas on Today at 02:48:19 PMAgreed. I just think from their standpoint, scholarships go a long way in recruiting, especially as a public school. Not impossible to recruit without them, considering they were D3 for as long as they were, but it's hard to see where the benefit would be to SRSU returning to D3.

And yeah, the travel thing may have been used more for PR reasons than it actual reality, but I think about the future ASC setup. If SRSU returned to make it 7, they'd still need 4 non-conference football games and 13 non-conference basketball/soccer/volleyball.  In non-football sports, you hardly even have to play outside your league in the LSC. That saves money, because you're not spending several thousand to fly your men's basketball team to Colorado/Oregon/California or bus them to Arkansas for two games. Financially, it'd work fine with football...but it's all the other sports that would be of concern compared to the LSC schedule.

You mentioned the state pays for the scholarships. Is this a Texas thing? In Virginia, zero state funds are used for athletic expenses. Operational, scholarships, salaries etc. ZERO! I know, as an example, UVA has the VAF (Virginia Athletic Foundation) which is a private foundation that raises the money to fund all of UVA's athletic scholarships.

Quote from: Kuiper on April 13, 2025, 05:59:30 PMNorth Park

Lots of familiar teams, but replaces Wisconsin Eau Claire with Wisconsin Platteville

It's not entirely same-old, same-old for North Park in 2025. Trine is on the schedule; while NPU has played Trine in plenty of other sports before, this will be the first time ever that the Vikings and the "other" Thunder meet on the soccer pitch. MSOE is also back on the North Park docket after a dozen-year absence; the Vikings used to play the Raiders practically every season for awhile in the millennium's first decade when John Born, now North Park's AD, was the head coach of the Vikings; MSOE had been his previous stop as a head coach.

Quote from: Kuiper on April 13, 2025, 07:14:49 PMAlma

Not sure I understand why they agreed to play Calvin twice, adding them as a non-conference game before also playing them in conference, but maybe it's tough for them to get a mid-week game.

It's not as conspicuous an island school as are UMPI, Colorado College, UCSC, or the two West Coast conferences' teams, but Alma really does fall within the "you can't get there from here" category. Trust me on this, as I've been on the team bus to call road games against the Scots for both the NPU football and the NPU men's basketball teams, and the trips were mind-numbingly long. Alma, MI is located a third of the way up the index finger on its inside edge, if you're using the traditional "point at your outstretched left hand" method Michiganders use to identify locations on the Lower Peninsula. The only non-MIAA schools that are less than four hours away from Alma are Heidelberg and Bluffton, and they're both 3 1/2 hours distant. Alma coaches in a lot of sports have difficulty with midweek non-conference scheduling.

Quote from: Kuiper on April 13, 2025, 07:14:49 PMAlfred State

First season for Vince Correa after moving over from an AC position at SUNY Brockport. I, for one, am happy that they open the season hosting Alfred University so that no matter what happens, Alfred wins.

There's no good reason for these two schools to not play each other in every sport possible. This could naturally evolve into the one of the best D3 rivalries there is, alongside Calvin/Hope, Williams/Amherst, DePauw/Wabash, Carleton/St. Olaf, and Ithaca/Cortland.

Quote from: Kuiper on April 13, 2025, 07:14:49 PMSUNY Potsdam

Traveling to St. Lawrence on 9/17 for Saints fans.  Host SUNY ESF and the Baruch/Nazareth in the Potsdam College Cup

I'm happy to see that the Stumpies are still playing sports. When I was a kid I used to read the paragraph-sized recaps of ESF men's basketball games in the Syracuse newspapers. I can remember wondering how the heck the ESF coach was able to recruit basketball players to come to a school set up to train forest rangers and logging managers. Of course, since then I've learned that the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry produces graduates who cover a much more diverse spectrum of occupations than just forest ranger and logging manager, but it's worth noting that all ESF students are still called "Stumpies," regardless.

Quote from: Kuiper on Today at 01:02:33 AMDominican

They replace Fontbonne (RIP) and Nebraska Wesleyan with Elmhurst and North Central

It's an upgrade in terms of competitive level, but I suspect that the reason that the Stars are doing this is to cut travel costs.

Quote from: Kuiper on April 10, 2025, 12:29:24 PMBig announcement out of Gettysburg

Mark Mettrick announces his retirement, effective at the end of the spring semester, after 11 years at Gettysburg and 31 years as a college coach

QuoteAfter 11 years on the Gettysburg sidelines and 31 years as a collegiate head coach, Mark Mettrick has announced his retirement, effective at the end of the spring semester.

I wonder how this announcement will affect Gettysburg's search for a replacement for Mettrick.

Gettsyburg's Athletic Director Announces his Departure

One possibility is that Gettysburg's outgoing AD puts in place an interim for the Fall season before he leaves and then the new AD hires a replacement for next season.  Not ideal for the program, but pretty hard to recruit a strong head coach as a lame duck athletic director with one foot out the door.

In my first installment of "Where are they now", I give you an update of Harrison Boushele, formerly of Augustana, who has transferred to D1 Houston to play out the remainder of his eligibility for the Cougars.

19   Boushele, Harrison   4.91 ERA   3.00 WHIP   0-0   6 appearances    3.2 IP   4H   4R   2ER   7BB   2K   15AB   .267 Avg

Swarthmore is seeking one away game on Nov. 8th to complete our 2025-26 schedule. Open to discussion about starting Home/Home and game time depending on travel distance.

Please reach out to Shane Loeffler at sloeffl1@swarthmore.edu if interested.

Agreed. I just think from their standpoint, scholarships go a long way in recruiting, especially as a public school. Not impossible to recruit without them, considering they were D3 for as long as they were, but it's hard to see where the benefit would be to SRSU returning to D3.

And yeah, the travel thing may have been used more for PR reasons than it actual reality, but I think about the future ASC setup. If SRSU returned to make it 7, they'd still need 4 non-conference football games and 13 non-conference basketball/soccer/volleyball.  In non-football sports, you hardly even have to play outside your league in the LSC. That saves money, because you're not spending several thousand to fly your men's basketball team to Colorado/Oregon/California or bus them to Arkansas for two games. Financially, it'd work fine with football...but it's all the other sports that would be of concern compared to the LSC schedule.

6'8 F Ben Grabner from Kimberly committed to UW-Oshkosh.

Norwich University is looing for 1 team to complete the field of the 2025 Ed Hockenbury Classic.  The tournament will be held on December 6-7, 2025.  We offer a generous guarantee, food after the first game, shirts and awards.

If interested contact Paul Booth at 802-485-2239 or pbooth@norwich.edu.