Case Western Reserve and Yeshiva vary widely as institutions, do they not?

Ranking, not a poll. I doubt there are multiple voters here.

Wow, the floor is lower than I would have thought.

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Quote from: Brady12 on May 20, 2026, 05:24:44 PMI believe Trinity had 85 players last year with 22 being Seniors. With O'Brien coming back how can they bring in 29 players? 

The 2025 Trinity roster listed 83 names (23 Seniors). I'm not sure if anyone other than O'Brien are returning for a Graduate year, but assuming he's the only one and nobody else has transferred or left the team it would leave 61 players. If you add in 29 freshmen that puts the number of players reporting for camp at 90. With the roster limit at 84 players, it seems like a pretty reasonable number when you factor in potential injuries that could pop-up along with a handful of roster cuts.

Significantly more than one senior returning, as Jeff Devanney said in our podcast interview with him last week:
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2026/05/18/atn-podcast-408-nescac-countdown-bomber-boss-mascot-madness/

I will take Greg's lead on what's the Inland Empire, and, more importantly, who might recruit from there.

It's good to remember that the interview with Coach Parnell at Azusa took place in January.

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Quote from: Jake Feldman on May 14, 2026, 02:11:07 PMIF we had most of the D2 schools move down to D3, that may necessitate a split to maintain competitive balance in the division.

My baseline assumption is programs coming to D3 from 'higher' levels will struggle for a while as they adjust to turning over their roster and recruiting without scholarships to offer.

For the average student-athlete (those not going to highly selective nor selective schools), in the case of the PSAC in PA, maybe the differential could be tuition/room & board/fees coming in at about half the cost of many D3 schools in PA. I know many PSAC grads who have done extremely well for themselves in a variety of fields and if I was a coach at any of the PSAC schools (after the move to D3), I am selling the student-athlete (again, the non-selective, non-highly selective school student athlete) on a variety of factors......facilities (if and where applicable), academics and cost. Add in decent financial aid packages and the all-in cost factor of a PSAC school will be much more reasonable than the all-in cost of your average, garden variety, tuition dependent, D3 school.

Also, PSAC schools vary widely in the amount of athletic aid they currently give, with a number of them giving lower than the maximum. They distance between some of these programs and Division III isn't super large.

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on May 14, 2026, 08:12:29 AMThe PSAC is huge.  I wonder what d3 would do with a request to bring 17 schools into the division all at once?

I'm not sure the procedure for a whole conference changing affiliation.  Would they be considered individually?

Certainly a conference of this size joining en masse is unprecedented.

Once upon a time, the Northwest Conference came in all together, but these days a conference has to sponsor a school before they can gain entry to D-III. Not sure how that would work.

Insight into ETBU:
https://www.d3football.com/teams/East_Texas_Baptist/2026/index

Quote from: ADL70 on May 12, 2026, 09:23:03 PM

Quote from: IC798891 on May 08, 2026, 12:59:31 PMI know Rochester is split between two conferences, (and typically charges anyway), but it's ridiculous to me that the Liberty League softball championship is behind FloSports' paywall when the Liberty League is not part of Flo

Has anyone inquired if Rochester is sharing revenue from the championship with LL or the other paarticipating teams?

There isn't any revenue specifically tied to any specific event. It's year-long.

Here's my conversation with NCAA committee chair Ben Cooprider from last night, where we tackled all sorts of questions about matchups and who didn't file to host.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXc1-N3ktPg

No top 16 in that pod but it has 18 and 19 -- it's not terrible at all.

Quote from: AndrewB on May 07, 2026, 02:23:51 AMA few notes from this spring.

RF exceed the giving days goal.  Not sure if the $20,000 is before or after the $10,000 matching contribution.  But in the notes, it's for helmet communication and Instant replay reviews..
Pat, does this mean the entire conference will be having reviews this fall?  Or is this for Playoff games only?

Great question and I don't have the answer. Yes, for conference games, it would have to be a conference-wide decision, but UWRF could certainly choose to use replay review in its home non-conference games.

Haven't heard plans on a WIAC-wide level for review but it's certainly possible.

Sure thing -- yes, we do not list games against club/JV teams.

Last version with 2024-25 changes:
https://www.d3boards.com/index.php?msg=2135328

The board provides said function and it doesn't need to be carried forward. Probably the next posting of the changes can eliminate the 2025-26 version, just like once the 2024-25 version was deprecated.