Future of Division III

Started by Ralph Turner, October 10, 2005, 07:27:51 PM

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Pat Coleman

Only slightly related but D-II has had some conference shuffling as well. Here's some new movement:

http://www.wvmetronews.com/news.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=53329

Nine football-playing members of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) will withdraw from the league to form a new regional all-sports conference.  The new, yet to be named league, will consist of 12 schools from West Virginia and surrounding states.
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Ralph Turner

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These are the new full members that I have found for 2012-13.

Penn State-Abington  (NEAC)
SUNY-Cobleskill           (NEAC)
Spaulding                   (SLIAC)


KnightSlappy

Quote from: Ralph Turner on July 08, 2012, 08:44:07 PM
These are the new full members that I have found for 2012-13.

Penn State-Abington  (NEAC)
SUNY-Cobleskill           (NEAC)
Spaulding                   (SLIAC)

That's now confirmed by the NCAA

No word yet on which schools have been moved to year one of the exploratory process.

I have:

Houghton
Georgetown
Kentucky Wesleyan
Sarah Lawrence
Southern Virginia
SUNY-Canton
Valley Forge Christian

As exploratory year members last season. (From what I've heard, Georgetown is definitely out).

hickory_cornhusker

Quote from: KnightSlappy on July 13, 2012, 04:17:16 PM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on July 08, 2012, 08:44:07 PM
These are the new full members that I have found for 2012-13.

Penn State-Abington  (NEAC)
SUNY-Cobleskill           (NEAC)
Spaulding                   (SLIAC)

That's now confirmed by the NCAA

No word yet on which schools have been moved to year one of the exploratory process.

I have:

Houghton
Georgetown
Kentucky Wesleyan
Sarah Lawrence
Southern Virginia
SUNY-Canton
Valley Forge Christian

As exploratory year members last season. (From what I've heard, Georgetown is definitely out).

Kentucky Wesleyan is leading the creation of the new Great Midwest Athletic Conference in Division II so I doubt they are moving to Division III anytime soon.

Ralph Turner

Quote from: KnightSlappy on July 13, 2012, 04:17:16 PM

No word yet on which schools have been moved to year one of the exploratory process.

I have:

Houghton                                          Empire 8
Georgetown
Kentucky Wesleyan
Sarah Lawrence                                   Traditional Eastern Liberal Arts Colleges in D-III
Southern Virginia                                 Capital AC (football schools especially)
SUNY-Canton                                      Upstate NY/SUNY's/North East AC/M&W Ice hockey/Advocates of kangaroos {Austin College TX?}
Valley Forge Christian                            Not sure who "wants" them

As exploratory year members last season. (From what I've heard, Georgetown is definitely out).
I can imagine "advocates" for the above colleges.

CKBeber329

Will the NCAA release what schools moved up in the membership process?  I know that they released an article for the three that became members, but what about the ones in the provisional process?

KnightSlappy

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Quote from: Ralph Turner on July 14, 2012, 10:29:58 PM
Quote from: KnightSlappy on July 13, 2012, 04:17:16 PM

No word yet on which schools have been moved to year one of the exploratory process.

I have:

Houghton                                          Empire 8
Georgetown
Kentucky Wesleyan
Sarah Lawrence                                   Traditional Eastern Liberal Arts Colleges in D-III
Southern Virginia                                 Capital AC (football schools especially)
SUNY-Canton                                      Upstate NY/SUNY's/North East AC/M&W Ice hockey/Advocates of kangaroos {Austin College TX?}
Valley Forge Christian                            Not sure who "wants" them

As exploratory year members last season. (From what I've heard, Georgetown is definitely out).
I can imagine "advocates" for the above colleges.

Houghton has announced themselves as a year-one provisional. The article also mentions that they have joined the Empire 8. I don't know if this had been made official before or not. http://www.houghton.edu/news/archive.php?p=6434

SUNY-Canton had already announced they were moving to year one as well. I don't remember if this had been posted or not: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120628/SPORTS03/706289919

Hampton U SID

Quote from: CKBeber329 on July 20, 2012, 08:54:33 AM
Will the NCAA release what schools moved up in the membership process?  I know that they released an article for the three that became members, but what about the ones in the provisional process?

Well it appears they're slowly letting that word out as Southern Virginia was put in the pipeline
http://athletics.svu.edu/about/news/2012-13/dIII-provisional-membership

KnightSlappy

And now Sarah Lawrence and Valley Forge Christian are saying that they're in as well.

http://www.slc.edu/news-events/news/2012-08-08-sarah-lawrence-athletics-nr.html

http://www.vfccpatriots.com/sports/2012/8/9/GEN_0809121950.aspx?tab=compliance

That makes five new provisional members: Houghton, Sarah Lawrence, Valley Forge Christian, SUNY-Canton, and Southern Virginia

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jeffconn

The Great South Athletic Conference actually added two schools in the last few weeks. The independent Trinity Washington University, out of DC, and Pine Manor College, from Chestnut Hill, Mass. Pine Manor left the Great Northeast Athletic Conference just last week.

http://www.greatsouth.org/news/2012/8/27/GEN_0827122836.aspx
http://www.greatsouth.org/news/2012/9/7/GEN_0907121421.aspx

After Covenant and Huntingdon leave for USA South in 2013, that will leave the GSAC with 6 women's colleges. Add 1 or 2 more women's colleges and they might just survive after all.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)

So, do these schools have the budget for this kind of travel?
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Pat Coleman

They won't travel for regular season games, surely. But they'll need to have a postseason tournament.

For some of these teams, it will replace an Independents tournament they had been traveling to.
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Just Bill

Great South gets even bigger in numbers and geography:

http://www.greatsouth.org/news/2013/1/14/SB_0114131528.aspx?path=wsoc

Finlandia (Mich. in da U.P. der hey!)
Mills (Oakland, Calif.)
Maine-Presque Isle

Maine to Georgia to Michigan to California? You win GSAC, you win.

I'm assuming they won't play a regular season schedule, they'll just get together for the most unusual post-season tournament in the country. The GSAC will already be including Finlandia for softball this spring.

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Ron Boerger

This isn't a conference, it's a joke.  If you're not playing each other except in a tournament it hardly seems D3ish.