What Division III sport should we add a board for next?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Touche

[Ralph Turner]

narch, part of the beauty of Pat's "D3sports.com" empire is the precision, the cleanness, the user-friendly appeal, and the organization that these boards have.

A track & field board will have a specific group of users who will use the board in specific way.

As I moderate the Baseball Board, I can already see a use pattern by the SCAC members that is almost as active as the football board in the same conference.

Also, the skills and the interests of any future moderators would need to be considered.  As Regional Reporters, I consider Ron Boerger (Bfb) and Clyde Hughes to be excellent football reporters. But,  Jared Rosenbaum does an excellent job on Great Lakes Region hoops.

I believe that Pat will find it easier to identify a soccer-specific or a track-and-field specific moderator who will have a burning passion for the board to succeed,  than an "all-sports" moderator who "kinda traffic-cops the chaos".

I personally hope that Track and Field is added, but I want these sites to grow and surpass our fondest expectations as THE Place for D3Sports!

I trust Pat's judgment!

[Ralph Turner]

What would you call the board on which we are currently posting?

i don't know, but "What sport should we add boards for?" or "What Division III sport should we add a board for next?" seem like logical choices to me since those are the two titles under which you can find this thread ...my suggestion also would entail breaking this "all sports" board into geographic regions and conferences

Conferences and Regions may vary. The ASC is in the West Region for Baseball, the South Region for football and the Central Region for Soccer.

[narch]

ralph - i understand where you're coming from, but i think it would be great to have a place where you could talk about some of the sports that are likely to NEVER have a board of their own - i don't suggest that it's done at the expense of a baseball board or a lax board or even a soccer or t&f/cc board, but really, is there EVER going to be a golf board or a swimming board, and if there was, would they really generate enough interest to make them viable?  i think once you get the more popular boards up, then a catch-all conference page could be nice for the smaller sports - again, just my thoughts

i understand that regions vary by sport, but i imagine you could break it up into actual geographic regions...say the southeast, northeast, great lakes, midwest, southwest, west and northwest, for starters ?

[Ralph Turner]

I think that D3sports.com boards can grow into that function in the next several years!

I wonder how Lax and Baseball will do.

[seventiesraider]

I am beginning to agree with Narch's point about catch-all conference boards where interest in other less visible sports might develop. I'm sure some sports might never get out of the catch-all phase while others might develop enough of a following to set out on their own.
What this discussion has demonstrated clearly to me is that to the person with no particular interest in a sport it is hard to imagine what anyone would want to talk about in that sport. Build it and they will blab.

[foul_language]

Late to this discussion, but the following needs to be explained (or point me to the already-been-explained page)

Not that I am favoring Lacrosse... but it does have an upside in that the WIAC does not field Lacrosse teams (Unless you consider the all the sports at UW La Crosse). 

Is the upside that WIAC people won't post or that WIAC would dominate or just that WIAC has LaCrosse (city and university) as member and it's kind of funny?

[Ralph Turner]

  8) I will often an opinion...

Is the upside that WIAC people won't post  I doubt that. They always show up!

or that WIAC would dominate Possibly

or just that WIAC has LaCrosse (city and university) as member  Definitely

and it's kind of funny?    Yeah!  You could say that!

[foul_language]

At what time of year is women's lacrosse? Most WIAC schools don't have  what you'd call 'spring'. As a matter of fact, with global warming, most don't have much of a summer, either. Now, if you can  play it on ice or a basketball court, I think we could swing it.

[narch]

pat - this has nothing to do with adding a sport, but i'd like to make a navigation suggestion/request - is it possible (meaning, relatively easy/straight-forward) to add the conferences as "child boards" under the region in posting up...i really like the way post-patterns and the new boards have the child boards visible and you can see if there are new posts...just a suggestion, please take it for what it's worth

[Knightstalker]

At what time of year is women's lacrosse? Most WIAC schools don't have  what you'd call 'spring'. As a matter of fact, with global warming, most don't have much of a summer, either. Now, if you can  play it on ice or a basketball court, I think we could swing it.

Considering it is actually the national sport of Canada, I would say it could be played in the snow and mud.

[Pat Coleman]

pat - this has nothing to do with adding a sport, but i'd like to make a navigation suggestion/request - is it possible (meaning, relatively easy/straight-forward) to add the conferences as "child boards" under the region in posting up...i really like the way post-patterns and the new boards have the child boards visible and you can see if there are new posts...just a suggestion, please take it for what it's worth

I'm not sure -- that would require making each of the eight regions a top-level board in both men's and women's basketball, so I am not sure the clutter is worth it...

[Jonny Utah]

At what time of year is women's lacrosse? Most WIAC schools don't have  what you'd call 'spring'. As a matter of fact, with global warming, most don't have much of a summer, either. Now, if you can  play it on ice or a basketball court, I think we could swing it.

nowadays, even for a lot of northern d3 schools the sport of lacrosse is being played on astroturf.  Many schools now have two fields to possibly play on, turf or grass.  Id say every d1 team has one turf field that they practice on and if the weather permits it, those schools play on that field.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Lacrosse on ice without skates, now there is a sport I want to see.

[narch]

I'm not sure -- that would require making each of the eight regions a top-level board in both men's and women's basketball, so I am not sure the clutter is worth it...

doh...i meant post patterns...the football boards...my bad