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

[Jonny Utah]

For those close to Philadelphia, you should check out the d3 lacrosse final this year on Memorial Day weekend.  It is probably the biggest d3 event of all sports.  (because it is combined with the d1/d2 finals).

The d3 lax championship will be in at the Baltimore Ravens stadium in 2007 and at Foxboro Stadium (NE Patriots) in 2008.

[Jacketlawyer]

For those close to Philadelphia, you should check out the d3 lacrosse final this year on Memorial Day weekend.  It is probably the biggest d3 event of all sports.  (because it is combined with the d1/d2 finals).

The d3 lax championship will be in at the Baltimore Ravens stadium in 2007 and at Foxboro Stadium (NE Patriots) in 2008.

GOOD STUFF.  But the best DIII game is the War By the Shore between Washington College and Salisbury.  Really good.

[Jonny Utah]

Your right, WAC-Salsbury is a great d3 rivalry and maybe the biggest d3 lacrosse game in the country every year.

[Flea]

I would add cross country to a track and field board . . . posing in the fall (XC), winter(Indoor T&F) and spring (Outdoor T&F).

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Good call flea; that would make it a year-round board.

[BVHawk]

I don't think there would be too much traffic on a cross country board, but you never know.

However, I agree, it would be a good way to keep a Track&Field board up throughout the year.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

D3 cross country is an underground phenomenon; you might be suprised if the word gets out.

[Warren Thompson]

D3 cross country is an underground phenomenon ....

They run in tunnels and caves?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Totally, they may be beneath your house right now, listening and readying themselves for the time when a trumpet shall sound and they shall overrun the earth with their superior lung capacity and endurence.  It is inevitable; all religions and cultures have omens and portents predicting its coming.  The time is near!

[Flea]

D3 cross country is an underground phenomenon ....

They run in tunnels and caves?

Those suckers are everywhere.  When we go to track and field away meets we will have 10 or 12 get on the bus and 13 to 14 get off. 

[mybleedinghands]

here's what I dont like about track and field: you could play just about any other real sport like basketball or football or lacrosse or anything else that involves a lot of running, throwing, or just having muscle, and you can excel at it in some way. for example, ive known of basketball players who have never patricipated in track and field before and they go and do high jump afgter the season is over and they end up being one of the best on the team with no prior training or experience.

i haven't heard of known of hardly anyone that has gone from soccer in the fall to deciding to pick up baseball in the spring and become pretty good at it with less than a month's training and experience. sure it takes talent to play track and field, but no where near the training and experience it takes to become specialized in a sport like basketball for instance.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I've known plenty of cross-country and track long distance guys who've hopped on to soccer teams without having played since 4th grade and doing fine.  Obviously refined skills aren't there, but they hold their own.

A basketball player has athletic ability and he might end up being the best high jumper on the team, but in terms of how much of his potential he is fulfilling will not be as much as some less talented kid who has worked on it for a long time.

It's the same reason why we as Americans sucked at soccer for so long.  We just didn't have our most athletic and talented people participating in it.  I mean there is no way to prove it, but if the same number of players who grew up playing basketball or football had grown up playing soccer or if soccer players made as much money and got as much publicity as football or basketball we would have been better.

The better atheltes generally play the glamour sports, because that's where our society sends them.  Specific skills are developed and may be more apparent in football or basketball or soccer because there are higher numbers of equally skilled people.  Not to take anything from track athletes, but there are less of them and probably less competition.  I hope NJLincolnlion comments on this, but I doubt they'd have any basketball players at Lincoln who could compete in their track program without a history of running or throwing.

It speaks more the the quality of atheletes involved than it does to the difficulty of the sport.  Each sport is about competition; if it isn't competitive, it's easier to compete.

[Ralph Turner]

>,  your line of reasoning about track is one of the reasons that track (and the Texas Relays historically) have been so big in Texas.

All of the football coaches wanted their linemen working on weights and "explosion" style quickness in the Shot Put and Discus, and they wanted the backs and receivers working on speed, jumping and hurdling.

In fact, the Dallas Cowboys drafted the 1964 Olympics 100 Meter Champion, Bob Hayes from Florida A&M, and cultivated him as a wide receiver.  IMHO, the "World's Fastest Human" forever changed the nature of Pro Football.  Look at those stats for Hayes from 1965-1970.  They are incredible.  The film highlights are classic stuff.  I believe that part of that was due to Tom Landry, a UTexas grad, who had always had an appreciation for speed.

In 7th grade, everyone on my football team was placed on the track team in some event in which you were either naturally talented, or an event that would develop skills necessary for football.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Here, here.  Well said Ralph.

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you really can't knock track for being what it is... basic.  What does it take to sprint, throw, or jump? not much, but to do them well takes a whole lot.