2023 D3 Men's Soccer National Perspective

[Freddyfud]

FYI - On a quick pass, you can also add Clarkson, Hobart, UT-Dallas and WashU as D3's.  Were you able to confirm that the Univ. of St. Thomas is the Texas institution instead of the Minnesota one that just recently moved to Division I?

Thanks!  I made those changes.  And no the only info I have is the name so to your point it could be the other University of St Thomas.  That brings the total to 43 now (or 42?)

[Recon]

Nice info, thanks...  quick glance, one more... University of Rochester UAA Conference, (not RIT) attending...   cheers

[Freddyfud]

Nice info, thanks...  quick glance, one more... University of Rochester UAA Conference, (not RIT) attending...   cheers

Got it thanks!  (I promise I'm not trying to hate on the LL with my errors...)

[Recon]

ha!  apologies if it wasn't clear...  cheers. 

So, RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) does not appear to be attending based on the "initial" coaches list...  (although, yes, they are liberty league conference)

UAA D3 Schools Attending the Showcase:   

University of Rochester, UAA Conference  (many get URochester and RIT mixed up!)
and,
Washington University St Louis, also UAA conference.  (It appears D1 school University of Washington is highlighted as UAA).

[Flying Weasel]

ha!  apologies if it wasn't clear...  cheers. 

So, RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) does not appear to be attending based on the "initial" coaches list...  (although, yes, they are liberty league conference)

UAA D3 Schools Attending the Showcase:   

University of Rochester, UAA Conference  (many get URochester and RIT mixed up!)
and,
Washington University St Louis, also UAA conference.  (It appears D1 school University of Washington is highlighted as UAA).

If Freddyfud's list of attending schools is correct (I'm assuming he cut-and-pasted it from a reliable source), then RIT is coming and Univ. of Rochester is not.  The wrong Washington, however, was tagged.  I know that Freddyfud had originally posted a link to last year's (2022) list.  Maybe that's causing some confusion.  Anyway, either way, Freddyfud's work gives a general sense of the number and demographic of D-III schools attending this event.

[Freddyfud]

ha!  apologies if it wasn't clear...  cheers. 

So, RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) does not appear to be attending based on the "initial" coaches list...  (although, yes, they are liberty league conference)

UAA D3 Schools Attending the Showcase:   

University of Rochester, UAA Conference  (many get URochester and RIT mixed up!)
and,
Washington University St Louis, also UAA conference.  (It appears D1 school University of Washington is highlighted as UAA).

If Freddyfud's list of attending schools is correct (I'm assuming he cut-and-pasted it from a reliable source), then RIT is coming and Univ. of Rochester is not.  The wrong Washington, however, was tagged.  I know that Freddyfud had originally posted a link to last year's (2022) list.  Maybe that's causing some confusion.  Anyway, either way, Freddyfud's work gives a general sense of the number and demographic of D-III schools attending this event.

Flying Weasel is correct.  The earlier link was to last year's event, notably published after the event.  The more recent Google Sheet is the list of "confirmed" programs attending this year's event which starts next week.  The source was my son's coach as of a couple of days ago.  Not sure where he got is as I don't see anything online. And the actual attendees may change of course.  But that means RIT confirmed they will be attending this year.  (I also corrected Wash U of St. Louis.) 

[FBALLISLIFE]

One relevant note about the lists of "Colleges Attending..."   A healthy number of schools register and don't attend, so they can get the emails from players and send invites to camps.  And others attend, but don't register.  Admittedly far more in the first camp, but lots of both.

Bottom line for recruits, don't depend on the registration list as indicative of who is watching and when.

[camosfan]

Coaches go to these events to recruit players for their camps!

[Another Mom]

Sad the season is completely over. What's the story with the Spring? I know there are more practices than previously,  but is there also another game or two? (Yes, I'm addicted, and looking for my next fix :-) )

[camosfan]

 

[Kuiper]

Sad the season is completely over. What's the story with the Spring? I know there are more practices than previously,  but is there also another game or two? (Yes, I'm addicted, and looking for my next fix :-) )

There are more practice days - 24 v. 16 - permitted to be spread over more of the Spring (rather than being limited to 5 weeks), but still only one day for games.  That works out to one game, although some programs have two on the same day to give everyone playing time, so long as no one plays more than 90 minutes on a single day.  They can have intrasquad scrimmages during practices in programs with a large enough pool of returning players.

I don't think all programs will take advantage of the extra days and some still won't practice at all in Spring, but I imagine many programs that do have spring practices will take advantage of the extra days and especially the extra time.  The latter is particularly helpful when bad weather cancels practices so you can push them later rather than just have fewer altogether.

[Chargers96]

I'd guess there are a significant number of players that aren't excited about the prospect of more practices w/o the benefit of more games in the spring.  Bad move by NCAA -- this is D3 for a reason.

[Rcjh2245]

This may fall into the category of "how cute, she doesn't understand," but why no more than 1 game in the spring? What do DI and DII get in the spring, and if more why the difference?

[Kuiper]

This may fall into the category of "how cute, she doesn't understand," but why no more than 1 game in the spring? What do DI and DII get in the spring, and if more why the difference?

I don't think an official explanation was ever given, but the assumption is money and field space. 

[Rcjh2245]

Can't be that simple. Can't afford 1 extra chartered bus, and no field space b/c of spring sports, i.e. lacrosse? From what I can tell, coaches and players universally would trade out a few extra practices for another game. Is it that important to have more games or does it just make spring season more fun?