RUMOR: Some DI teams/conferences considering leaving NCAA for US Soccer

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I'm curious how this would look in the colder regions of the US, especially at the D3 level. I'm in MN, and you generally can't play outdoor soccer from December-March here. Even April can be iffy some years. There are full-size domed fields available, but there are only a couple I know of (Augsburg and St. John's) that is owned and run by a D3 school. The rest of the schools in MN would have to find a way to rent space in a dome which is typically $300-$500/hr for a full field. Not to mention that many of these domes already have very high demand between youth club sports and community activities. The cost alone would be pretty prohibitive for a lot of these D3 schools that are already spreading their athletic budgets pretty thin.

Not sure that this would extend to D3, which I am pretty sure it won't. D1 has previously proposed for D1 was playing half a season in the fall with one game or so a week and then the rest of the season in the spring with d1 playoffs in the spring. This is old. https://povichcenter.umd.edu/sasho-cirovski-continues-to-look-towards-the-future/