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

[WLCALUM83]

not to be sexually bias or anything, but with v-ball being a fall sport and all the men posting on football.  Who is going to post on V-ball?  That just leaves a selected few men and then women.  How many women post on here?  I just don't see the market for v-ball i guess.

This poster's a man who is also a die-hard WLC volleyball fan. I guess it would also depend on which region, too. I noticed there were several postings about Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association women's volleyball at the end of last season. I'd have no problem following both football and women's volleyball.

Just my .02.

[Pat Coleman]

If we added a board for volleyball, do you think the AVCA would promote it? Would D-III volleyball fans find out about it?

That's one of the factors I consider when looking at this stuff. I'm not sure we have a lot of fans already coming here who would cross over to volleyball. I wouldn't want volleyball boards to end up like women's lacrosse.

Baseball was slow last year.  This year it is getting a lot of postings.  I'm not a baseball fan, but I have been reading the SCIAC and National topics.

Volleyball might work out the same.

Baseball has three or four very active moderators who have done a great job pulling people in, including the editor of a national Web site.

There was a baseball audience already here. I am not convinced there is one for volleyball.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

There might be a lot more audience on the women's boards.  I haven't posted there for quite a while, but it seems like there is a decent overlap between players playing both sports, especially at smaller schools.  You might find some audience there.  But it is true, to get a true national audience, you'd probably have to get some pub through the AVCA, which probably isn't out of the question and might be a worthy off-season project.

[tjcummingsfan]

If I didn't know how lazy ultimate frisbee players can be, I would vote that.  But swimming is definitely the way to go.

[Mr. Downtown]

I vote for volleyball. Or I'll just post about the Oshkosh volleyball team in the football board if the Titans struggle this season.

[foul_language]

I'll just post about the Oshkosh volleyball team in the football board if the Titans struggle this season

Since I regularly post hockey stuff on the basketball website, perhaps we can agree what the sub-subjects for each represented sport will be. Although I don't see volleyball being related to football other than season, I guess I could support the idea that when conversation about the given sport wanes, we have the backup sport to discuss.

I suppose hockey and basketball don't have much in common, either, other than season and that you have a net in each.

Soccer and golf? Wrestling and danceline? Baseball and rugby?

[Pat Coleman]

I think lacrosse and hockey on the football boards (contact sports), volleyball on the basketball board (gymnasium sports) and golf on the basketball board (occasionally shared coaches).

[JeffRookie2]

Got to be hockey. Its not as big nationally, obviously, but you would definitely get a lot of attention from the rabid fans up north.

[seneca]

Rugby anyone?
A true contact sport!

[d3bballinboston]

volleyball already has a very very strong and active board at

http://volleytalk.proboards88.com/

Very active posters onthere with both men's and women's volleyball;

[mybleedinghands]

volleyball already has a very very strong and active board at

http://volleytalk.proboards88.com/

Very active posters onthere with both men's and women's volleyball;

yeah active...if you want to talk about hawaii vball, what looks to be either professional or foreign, and division 1

[foul_language]

Just read an old message asking if there were enough people to run a college in Michigan's upper peninsula, and in case it hasn't been answered, I'd like to point out that Finlandia (formerly Suomi--I think I spelled that sorta close to right) is the smaller of the two schools--Michigan Tech in Houghton being the other--on the peninsula.

If we used those schools as exemplars (how do you like THAT word?) of sport, we'd include snowball throwing and shoveling in the discussion boards.

[Mr. Ypsi]

There's also Northern Michigan in Marquette and Lake Superior State in the Soo - all but Finlandia are d2.

One of the schools (NMU?) has a rite of spring consisting of 'burning' a snowman.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Cal Lutheran won the D-III women's water polo championship. The team was led by junior driver Nicole Pecel, whose picture appeared in today's Ventura County Star. I think I just became a fan of women's water polo.



http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/27/pooling-their-energy/

OxyBob

Better stay on your toes, she teaches Kickboxing:
http://www.clusports.com/womens_water_polo/roster/1476

[cave2bens]

Rugby anyone?
A true contact sport!

I'd concur with Seneca on this one - there are actually some pretty strong, DIII rugby clubs and several alums have made the  US national side over the past thirty years.

A bonus would be positive posts about Denison U on the NCAC board - their rugby sides fare much better than most other athletic teams in Granville  

Signed,

Aged Loose-Head Prop