Press coverage (Articles about D3 players or D3 in general)

[ADL70]

ESPN's Big East Blog's report of SMU's hiring of Hal Mumme refers to him as former McMurry head coach, with no mention of his previous DI HC stops.

[Ralph Turner]

ESPN's Big East Blog's report of SMU's hiring of Hal Mumme refers to him as former McMurry head coach, with no mention of his previous DI HC stops.

How quickly the reporter forgets!

Or, was he even paying attention to SEC football in the late 1990's?

[Ralph Turner]

Webster and UT-Dallas are among the College Chess Final Four.

[Pat Coleman]

Webster and UT-Dallas are among the College Chess Final Four.

Webster is a chess power but their recruiting tactics are not very #whyd3.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Webster and UT-Dallas are among the College Chess Final Four.

Webster is a chess power but their recruiting tactics are not very #whyd3.

True, but isn't 'stealing' a coach and an entire team from a D1 school pretty cool?!

[Ron Boerger]

Blurb in the latest Time mag (yes, it still exists) about colleges admitting kids for the wrong reasons ... one of the snarky things said is that 30-35% of Division III students play athletics.  Of course the turkey who wrote the article probably thinks D3 athletes are sub-standard academically because, by golly, student athletes can't be as smart as their peers. 

Current issue articles are subscriber-only, so can't post a link.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Blurb in the latest Time mag (yes, it still exists) about colleges admitting kids for the wrong reasons ... one of the snarky things said is that 30-35% of Division III students play athletics.  Of course the turkey who wrote the article probably thinks D3 athletes are sub-standard academically because, by golly, student athletes can't be as smart as their peers. 

Current issue articles are subscriber-only, so can't post a link.

I'm still a (paper) subscriber; it came today; haven't yet read it.  I'll have to check that out and see if I agree on the snarkiness.  (With the difficulties at some schools for paying students, especially males, I have little doubt that some D3 schools are more than willing to admit sub-par athletic recruits, but I have doubts that is a wide-spread problem.  Heck, I don't doubt there are schools that will admit any warm body who brings money, though I would hope they are rare in D3. )

[repete]

Not about d3 overall, but some mentions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/sports/alex-ferguson-is-among-historys-greatest-coaches.html?pagewanted=all

[repete]

Nice story ... except for the clueless d3 reference ...

http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/free-agent-charles-dieuseul-wants-to-make-a-name-for-himself-with-giants-1.5233347

[madzillagd]

Long form article on D3 football finances and the resurgence of football in some schools that haven't played for decades.

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/10/1/4786810/diii-football-revolution

[D3MAFAN]

Any idea if this goverment stoppage is having some effect on Division III Military acadamies?

[mattvsmith]

Don't know if USCGA is up and running. It likely is, because the military was exempted from the shut down. However, my friend who is a USCG civilian employee was furloughed, so maybe the civilian profs had to stay home.
The most ridiculous thing I've seen about the shutdown is the NOAA website. They made a screen saying that their website was shutdown due to the overall shutdown. It took an employee time and money to do that. The website itself was static and not often updated, so it would have cost nothing to leave it as is. It's just BS designed to make things inconvenient. I found the info on another website.

[mattvsmith]

Long form article on D3 football finances and the resurgence of football in some schools that haven't played for decades.

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/10/1/4786810/diii-football-revolution

What an interesting article!
I'm amazed at the assumptions the allegedly open-minded liberals have about football. The critics featured in the article operated on a level of stereotyping that, had we replaced "football" with blacks, women, LGBT, or whatnot, then there would be hell to pay.

It's funny to me because the most liberal colleges in the world have football teams. Princeton, possibly the root of all evil (or all greatness if you love perpetual wars and inflation), has many sports. Does having sports make the extremely liberal schools of the NESCAC somehow crypto-fascists? What a bunch of ninnies!

In short, the critics mentioned are just a$$holes. Good on Hendrix for reviving football! I hope you guys make a lot of money from it.

[madzillagd]

Well my experience reading SB Nation original content is mixed at best.  It's a network of bloggers mainly so while some consistently provide you with great stuff, others tend to overreach past their experience level to put it in a nice way. 

[ExTartanPlayer]

Nice story ... except for the clueless d3 reference...

http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/free-agent-charles-dieuseul-wants-to-make-a-name-for-himself-with-giants-1.5233347

Funny, I just looked at this.  I have to just laugh when I read things like that.  Opinions of D3 football seem to fall into three categories, from my experience. 

1) The most accurate: people truly familiar with the game understand that it's real football, just like what they see on TV, and that the teams have real coaches, practices every day, film sessions, offseason weight training and, not only that, but that Division III teams are full of guys who were very, very good HS football players.  These people generally know that any "average" D3 football team would run a good high school team off the field.

2) The middle-ground seems to be people that think it's an extension of high school football, but that the competition is scarcely different than HS football, and that their good-ol-boy high school teams could beat some Division III teams. 

3) The lowest seems to be the few morons who are under the impression that it's "just a step above intramurals" and that teams maybe gather to practice once in a while and play a few games, with some mix of kids that played in high school and random dudes that just walked on to the team.

Reminds of the portrayal of Vince Papale as some random bartender that just tried out for the Eagles because he was tearing up the beer league...neglecting to mention that Papale was an elite track athlete in college who won the conference meet in the long jump and triple jump.  He hadn't played college ball, but he was a little more of an athlete than he's made out to be in the movie.