If you're thinking you still need a place for your wrestler to compete, seems counterproductive to take a dig at the athletics and academics of your historic conference home on the way out. Why on earth would the ARC give Luther affiliate wrestling status. IMO, the dumbest thing the MIAC did was let MAC leave for football and keep their other sports. This one seems even more obvious from an outsiders perspective. If I'm ARC presidents/AD's "Don't let the door hit ya on the way out"

AJ Parnell, Bethel alum and former OC named HC at Azusa Pacific. His older brother played at PLU under Frosty. From Washington originally and a HS HC a decade or so ago so he knows the West Coast.

Thanks Pat, appreciate the off season info! #Isitfootballseasonyet

It's weird to me that he's resigned but staying on until Aug 1. Outside of him still wanting a paycheck until he starts at Osseo, how do you not make it effective immediately? You could even pay him until then but still have him be gone right away.

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Quote from: hazzben on May 19, 2025, 04:46:53 PMBethel named their new HC for men's b-ball. At first glance I like the fit/hire.

Shame on me - I didn't realize that WI had any D2 basketball programs...though it seems that they're the only one.

TBH I didn't either. I've always thought of the GLIAC as a football conference, but they've got their own "St. Mary's" if you will. The Loras stint is nice as well, he's got familiarity recruiting at a high level in multiple small college contexts in the upper midwest.

Bethel named their new HC for men's b-ball. At first glance I like the fit/hire.

Quote from: art76 on May 18, 2025, 12:11:14 AMNon-D3 football post follows: Just got back from this year's Oral Presentations and Safety Checks for the Upper Mid-West High-Powered Rocket Contest that will have the launches done tomorrow in North Branch, MN. There will be 19 teams launching tomorrow - yikes! The MIAC is well represented with Augsburg, Bethel, Concordia, Gustavus, and Macalester. Other notables mentioned here would be St. Thomas and Whitewater. Some of the bigger schools include NDSU, University of Iowa, Austin Peay, and three teams from the U of MN. It's gonna be a fun day launching tomorrow - could easily end up being over 50 or 60 flights.

Go Bethel!

Let us know how it goes Art!

Correct, it would result in a true round robin and each team would pick up the 1 team they aren't currently scheduled to play. Sounds like it's not a done deal, but it does sound like dropping it is very much on the table for this season still. And given that it'd be a very simple shift to make, it something they could decide to do at almost any point this summer before fall camps open.

Sounds like the MIAC Championship game might still be on the chopping block. Mtgs ongoing but a lot of coaches want to get rid of the rematch games and just play a real round robin.

It was the second half of the season basketball collapse that killed us. Injuries and a player getting kicked off (IIRC) played a role in the 10 game skid to end the year. Sounds like there's been fantastic national interest in the job from conversations I had last week.

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Quote from: faunch on May 05, 2025, 09:08:59 AMHow will this impact D3?
Considering very few, if any generate any real revenue.

https://www.startribune.com/ramstad-this-could-be-the-week-the-ncaa-becomes-a-professional-league/601335749

I don't think it will. Article notes it's for Division 1, I'm not sure the revenue sharing will be applied below that level. To your point Faunch, there aren't many small college athletic departments that make money. Frankly there aren't that many D1 athletic departments that do outside of the Power4.

It also comes down to who drives the most revenue into their program and operates it profitably. Shockingly the Top 25 revenue athletic departments is an exclusively B1G and SEC party.

Doesn't the D1 money from just a few sports (men's bball and football?) fund the post season tournaments in D3?  If they carve 1/4 off the top of all D1 revenue, then that's a whole lot of spare change which will no longer be available for D3 playoffs, no?

Someone mentioned that to me the other night.

Yep, so the Men's and Women's March Madness/NCAA Tourney money is what funds the "down market" playoff championships (the lion's share coming from the men's tourney historically).

As I understand it though, this is talking about the individual schools sharing their revenue with their athletes. So I'm not sure that it's really being proposed to take it from the same pie that the D3 sports playoffs are funded from, which is an NCAA piggy bank.

And I think you're totally right Faunch, my guess is this will have an effect on non-revenue sports. My guess is that would hammer men's D1 non-revenue since there are still Title IV compliance concerns. So unless you're Iowa and wrestling brings in money, this could cut into how viable a baseball or men's soccer team is going forward. But you've still got to keep women's sports going because you need to balance scholarship offers with Football's 105 man rosters throwing the math off.

Bottom line, the times they are a changin ... and the dust hasn't settled yet. To mix our metaphors a bit.

Quote from: faunch on May 05, 2025, 09:08:59 AMHow will this impact D3?
Considering very few, if any generate any real revenue.

https://www.startribune.com/ramstad-this-could-be-the-week-the-ncaa-becomes-a-professional-league/601335749

I don't think it will. Article notes it's for Division 1, I'm not sure the revenue sharing will be applied below that level. To your point Faunch, there aren't many small college athletic departments that make money. Frankly there aren't that many D1 athletic departments that do outside of the Power4.

It also comes down to who drives the most revenue into their program and operates it profitably. Shockingly the Top 25 revenue athletic departments is an exclusively B1G and SEC party.

@Duff, don't you live in Lamker's neighborhood or something? Guess you'll have to troll him with a Maple Grove sweatshirt and SJU hat or something on the dog walks now.

Quote from: bleedpurple on April 28, 2025, 09:29:14 PMPainful loss for the Warhawk Family. RIP Ryan Ponick. Prayers up for the Ponick family.

https://x.com/WarhawkFootball/status/1916870854249456070

Very sad, condolences to his former teammates and family.

Some clarity on Lamker-gate.

Apparently he's on paid administrative leave at Augsburg. Not sure the goal was ever to coach both teams as much as it was he had a window to ensure a landing spot at Osseo. I think he saw the writing on the wall in Minneapolis. But he did try to convince his DC to do the double duty gig initially. So maybe there was a part of him that thought double HC was possible, while at the same time he made sure he had a gig if things played out like he foresaw with his Alma Mater??

Timing sucks for Augsburg. Do you have time to hire the next guy or do you go with an interim for next season? I don't lose any sleep over Augsburg's rising or falling, but they are closer to becoming a Hamline than breaking into the top Tier.

IMO the MIAC has no need for more teams ranked in the bottom 25% of D3 Football. The league is better, and the top teams more battle hardened, when there is a healthy middle 50% of the league that can compete regionally and give the top teams a genuine push on a consistent basis.