Future of Division III

[CrashDavisD3]

Two Division III schools are in this article from the same conference  SCIAC
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/111664/collges-that-bring-the-highest-paycheck

Cal Tech
Harvey Mudd (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps(CMS))

[Just Bill]

Actually three D-III schools.... MIT.

[Ralph Turner]

Alexandria LA Town Talk about the moves by Centenary and UNO from D-1

Discusses the indebtedness by UNO athletics, the need to add sports at UNO (only 2 needed to be D-II), the resistance by alumni at Centenary and support by the faculty to cut missed class time.

Centenary College interim AD is Dave Voskuil.  He knows his stuff.  He will hire a good staff!

(I will bet that Centenary adds football in year-2 of provisional status.  It makes too much sense to add another 80-120 male students to a 56% female/44% male 887-student body.)

[roocru]

D3 partners with Special Olympics

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Modified for brevity  Thanks for the link.  Ralph Turner

[roocru]

   
DIII championships panel to begin study of squad, travel and bench limits

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Modified for brevity  Thanks for the link.  Ralph Turner

[hickory_cornhusker]

Is Colorado College thinking about moving to the closer pastures of the Rocky Mounain Athletic Conference and Division II?

http://www.cnjonline.com/sports/invite-42022-mountain-mulling.html

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Is Colorado College thinking about moving to the closer pastures of the Rocky Mounain Athletic Conference and Division II?

http://www.cnjonline.com/sports/invite-42022-mountain-mulling.html

It's a poor, poor fit academically and otherwise.  I think they'll stay put.

[Ralph Turner]

Is Colorado College thinking about moving to the closer pastures of the Rocky Mounain Athletic Conference and Division II?

http://www.cnjonline.com/sports/invite-42022-mountain-mulling.html

It's a poor, poor fit academically and otherwise.  I think they'll stay put.

However, Colorado College has their special "Block Plan" which means that the students take one course at a time.  You miss a lot of school on a road trip to Oglethorpe and Sewanee.

Colorado School of Mines would like them, and the savings in the travel budget probably cannot be ignored.

I also think that the prospects for restoring football may be better in D2.  The eastern half of the RMAC is looking to move eastward, so the trips to Nebraska would go away.

The missed classtime issue should carry a lot of weight in this discussion.

This will clear the way for Berry to join the SCAC.  With the addition of UDallas, this makes for a "tighter" geogrpahical conference, too.

There have been rumors of ENMU going to the RMAC, and now Black Hills State has been invited to join!

Black Hills State

UNebKearney is leaving.  There was also thoughts that BHSU and SD School of Mines would go as a travel pair.

The Yellow Jackets were one of three schools that were extended invitations by the RMAC. The other two have not been released, but Mines' Athletic Director Dick Kaiser said that the Hardrockers did not receive one of the other two invites.

"What we were told by the RMAC is that there was no big reason BH was selected over us, but we heard there was some inner squabbling between the Colorado schools," he [Mines' Athletic Director Dick Kaiser] said. "Some wanted to make it a 100 percent Colorado schools conference only, and some obviously didn't. In a compromise, they chose one school from the north, one from the middle region and one from the south. I do not know why they chose BH and not us, but for me to speculate would not be fair to our institution."

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Maybe the economy has hit CC harder than I thought, but they've always put reputation over money.  The prestige hit alone would make half the alums roll over in their graves (or mausoleums, as the case may be).

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Maybe the economy has hit CC harder than I thought, but they've always put reputation over money.  The prestige hit alone would make half the alums roll over in their graves (or mausoleums, as the case may be).

I'd just like to point out that I spelled "mausoleums" correctly on the first try.  I'm typically a horrible speller.  This might have been the highlight of my day.

[Ralph Turner]

Maybe the economy has hit CC harder than I thought, but they've always put reputation over money.  The prestige hit alone would make half the alums roll over in their graves (or mausoleums, as the case may be).

I'd just like to point out that I spelled "mausoleums" correctly on the first try.  I'm typically a horrible speller.  This might have been the highlight of my day.

Or, someone surreptitiously activated the "automated spellcheck and correction" feature of the browser for a random 30-second time period that coincided with that posting.   

[Gray Fox]

Maybe the economy has hit CC harder than I thought, but they've always put reputation over money.  The prestige hit alone would make half the alums roll over in their graves (or mausoleums, as the case may be).

And the ones in urns would be smoking mad?

[Ron Boerger]

Would the NCAA continue to grant CoCo the exemption to host D1 ice hockey if they made the move to D2?

[Ralph Turner]

Would the NCAA continue to grant CoCo the exemption to host D1 ice hockey if they made the move to D2?

Yes, because there is only one classification in NCAA "scholarship" men's ice hockey.

[GoGreenGoRed]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I came across the below article the other day. I thought it was really interesting that conventional wisdom seemed to be that you couldn't be a Sabbath-observing Jew and be a college athlete (with Yeshiva as the obvious exception I'd assume), especially because there are so many DIII schools that won't play on Sundays. What are your thoughts?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/more/wires/03/02/2080.ap.us.gymnast.sabbath.1st.ld.writethru.1708/