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#1
I can imagine a #4 conference tourney seed, getting hot and going deep in the NCAA's.
#2
Multi-Regional Topics / Re: Conference changes
March 19, 2024, 11:38:04 AM
Quote from: Pat Coleman on March 18, 2024, 10:08:19 AMThe super short version:

-> There are athletic programs trying to get away from Mary Hardin-Baylor, hence leaving the ASC.
-> The SCAC has a reputation of having higher academic standards, which is attractive for schools.
-> However, the SCAC no longer really lives up to that reputation, so Trinity and Southwestern left for the SAA, which does generally feature schools with higher academic standards.

More background on the SAA...

Trinity and Southwestern have long been members of the Associated Colleges of the South. It is a mission and vision thing. Centenary was D-1 for the first two decades of that organization's existence.

https://www.acsouth.edu/
#3
Here is how much NYU scored relative to their opponents as a percentage...

No. 1 New York University beat Smith 51-41  124%

def. Millsaps (n), 78-51  153%
def. No. 15 DeSales (r), 93-59  158%
def. No. 10 Hardin-Simmons (h), 73-55  133%
def. No. 6 Scranton (h), 68-46  148%
def. No. 2 Transylvania (n), 57-42  135%

Not bad, Cowgirls.
#4
HSU should not feel badly about their performance in the Sweet 16. NYU trounced Scranton in the next round.
#5
I will temper my exuberance concerning the 13-5 win by McMurry over UW-Whitewater. They really got to pitchers Eli Frank (Junior, Bay Port, WI) and Cade Hansen (a sophomore who played at New Braunfels Smithson Valley).

Looks like the UWW coach was trying out his bullpen staff against a middle-of-the road ASC team.
#6
Quote from: Bmo on March 10, 2024, 10:07:55 PMDumb question probably, but I noticed this footnote on ASC baseball standings page. 

https://ascsports.org/standings.aspx?path=baseball

It says that Sul Ross is "Ineligible for ASC and NCAA Championships (NCAA Division II reclassifying)."  Wouldn't UT Dallas also be ineligible?  Didn't UT Tyler win the national championship the year before they reclassified?  Why would Sul Ross be treated differently?
I think that UT-Tyler's paperwork began after the "title". I also think that this applies to UTD, who is moving to D-2.
#7
The TIAA was only AC, HSU, HPU McMurry and SRSU and competed in the NAIA.
#8
Quote from: The Third Division on February 26, 2024, 09:27:04 PMHow did the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association operate differently from the ASC? Were there differing politics involved? Why was a new conference formed in '96 in the first place? Why couldn't everyone stay in the same conference under the same name?
I have not stirred those memories in a long time.

Founding members were Howard Payne University, Austin College, Hardin–Simmons University, McMurry University, Mississippi College, Sul Ross State University, the University of Dallas and the University of the Ozarks. Only 6 schools played football.

The first commissioner was a very powerful influential man. He came from the old Southwest Conference after that conference fell apart. (Arkansas to the SEC and then A&M, UT, Baylor and Tech to the Big XII.) He was chosen to move the schools from NAIA to D-3.

Mississippi College moved from D-2 to D-3. They had had to "vacate" a season about 1994. I do not recall the reasons.

A new president hired at McMurry in 1994. Dr Robert Shimp was a strong advocate for a "strong, vibrant, very championship oriented' McMurry athletic program.

The ASC sought new D-3 programs, colleges willing to leave their current athletic alignment and join within the next 5-6 years

Concordia TX
ETBU
LeTourneau
Louisiana College
Texas Lutheran
Schreiner
UMHB.

.. and some to add football as an attractor for new students: ETBU, LaCollege, TLU and UMHB.

Wikipeida has a pretty good chronology of the ASC.
#9
I am glad that Ron opened up a board on which we can discuss this.

I have plenty of questions about how and why it should/not apply to D-3.
How many D-3 colleges will close if athletics is not an enticement to attend?

One already sees "Tik-Tok" shorts encouraging guys to go to trade school instead of college, because they will make more money. You also read of CEO's who preferentially pay/hire non-white or female candidates.

Can we imagine what D-3 will look like in 5 years?
#10
Yes. The SCIAC is strong this year.
I saw the PP series win over ETBU.
Impressive.
#11
Update on B-SC from the WSJ...

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/birmingham-southern-college-alabama-aef0fcb7?

From the article...

QuoteYet resources continued to dwindle, and the endowment is now just over $20 million, according to Birmingham-Southern's state loan application, down from $125 million in 2003
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#12
Case Western Reserve bumper sticker on car at Univ of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.  (...and a Wellesley one too.)
#13
Multi-Regional Topics / Re: Conference changes
January 05, 2024, 11:04:33 PM
John Carroll to the NCAC in Fall 2025. Pundits say this is cause more dominos to fall in the Region.
#14
A woman wearing a SUNY Oneonta sweatshirt in a Tyler TX grocery store...
#15
General Division III issues / Re: Future of Division III
December 20, 2023, 03:48:23 PM
Yes, jknezek, I enjoyed your post.   :)