Future of Division III

[Ralph Turner]

Didn't you know? Methodists are perennials, just plant one and you get a bunch every spring.

Unfortunately, they do not grow to perfection. 

Lutherans are annuals, you have to plant new ones every year.

Best grown in very cold climates. Fertilize copiously with jello mold.

Both are grown organically by the Amish.

... and then sold at robber-baron prices to the unsuspecting "English".

If the students are getting sex from faculty in the parking lot, who are the alumni watching play the sports and where do they park?

Alumni's on second. Parking's on third. 

Actually, I don't know is on third.  Parking is the left-handed mid-inning reliever that is only available between midnight and 6 am.

[Warren Thompson]

So, Ralph, there's at least one other poster out there ancient enough to remember A & C's "Who's On First" routine .... 

[Ralph Turner]

I would have to say that Sager is in the same metaphorical ball park as we two! 

[Knightstalker]

What?

[Ralph Turner]

What?

What's on second.

[smedindy]

And I Don't Give A Damn.....

[Knightstalker]

Tomorrow

[oldpa]

I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

[David Collinge]

So let me get this straight:  the Future of Division III involves sex in the parking lot, gin before breakfast, planted Lutherans, and "Who's on First?"  Where's the NCAA when you really need them? 

(Actually, that description sounds an awful lot like my college experience, so maybe this is not the "Future of DIII" but rather the distant past?)

[Warren Thompson]

DC:

You "planted Lutherans" as part of your college experience? Clarify soonest ....

[redswarm81]

At the risk of saying something bound to be unpopular, here I go.  The problem here is that most college presidents don't like athletics and many do whatever they can to limit the power of athletics programs without ticking off alumni.  By using the NCAA process to "reform" D3, the presidents are gaining more campus control and play to the folks who say "academics should be first."

What they arent saying is that they are afraid of the faculty and they dont want to lose power to athletic departments.  So, in one move, the presidents ingratiate themselves with the faculty and also minimize the athletic programs.  They  do this at the expense of the student athletes and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Welcome to the unpopular speaker club, Coach.   

I haven't read the "anti-reform" proposals, so I really can't speak to how enlightened they are.  That said, isn't it proper though that Division III administrations "play to those who say 'academics should come first?' "  Division III's premise is that academics should come first.  The controversy is in trying to determine exactly where and when athletics pass academics.

The NESCAC says that a ninth regular season football game would  threaten academics' priority.  As Keith McMillan's "Around the Nation" column pointed out, NESCAC students aren't exactly suffering--they're not even complaining.

I've had a lot of animosity directed toward me because I dare to suggest that a school that permits its football team to play in 15 games, where the last five games are of increasingly higher "winner take all" stakes (and likely played during final exams), ought to think carefully about its commitment to placing academics ahead of athletics.

If the student athletes truly want to emphasize athletics over academics, they don't belong in Division III at all, don't you agree?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Did you see this score  That is rediculous.

[smedindy]

It is ridiculous.

The minutes are way off in the second half. that's just shoddy stat keeping...

[redswarm81]

Don't you just love irony?

On Tuesday, the star running back of the 2002 BCS Champion is arraigned on two first degree felony counts of aggravated robbery.

(That particular Tuesday just happens to be three years from the very day that the 2002 BCS Championship game was played).

The next day, Texas and Southern Cal play what could easily be described as the greatest college football game ever.

I love irony, don't you?

[Ralph Turner]

Voting on Legislation is occurring today at the National Convntion.

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/

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