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Quote from: jknezek on May 30, 2025, 02:30:33 PMODAC has some problem children between Averett and Guilford. There are a few others that I would look real closely at before writing a check for my kid.

It was this past fall, I think, that there were some posts on the ODAC boards about financial issues and personnel discontent at Lynchburg. Are you thinking of any others?

I think Lynchburg will be ok. Thinking more of Sweet Briar or EMU. Schools very dependent on tuition and relatively small endowments.

I found some info on EMU. In this report is a graph that provides a Financial Strength Score from the Council of Independent Colleges. Based on that one metric, they seem to be stable.

EMU President's Report 2024

I wasn't able to look at the link, but I think EMU more due to the type of school. Smaller religious schools seem most at risk right now. While EMU is not strictly Menonite, or even a majority Menonite, it does have strong ties. It's a small school, under 1000 undergrads, possibly as low as 800, charges almost 50K a year on the sticker (I suspect the real cost is closer to 20K per year), and has a 40MM endowment. The school, as far as I can tell, has limited national reputation.

It's exactly the business model that I think will come under the greatest pressure, with the lone exception that there are about 200-300 graduate students on campus.

Wow - small world sometimes! Averett and Guilford both reached out to my son within the past week or so with recruiting pitches (lacrosse). He doesn't want to consider schools much smaller than 2k anyway - but with the closure of Limestone - I've been doing at least a quick check of enrollment trends and endowment numbers before we return calls from anyone. Roanoke seems relatively stable (though not a huge endowment). Wash & Lee will certainly be a target from our end. Berry has also reached out and I was pleasantly surprised by their situation.

PL-who over Rowan in '99 has to rank up there

Those .500 conference champs in March Madness are a ton of fun. But with the number of slots, everyone in the top 30 gets in as well. 4 at-large bids are not enough for D3 football. 

Quote from: DuffMan on November 14, 2023, 08:18:00 PM
That'll never happen, though, as it goes against the D3 access for all philosophy.

Could you just give me a min or two to believe it's possible? 

I prefer something like the D2 earned access model (or a hybrid) to all the D3 auto bids. No offense to UM-Morris or Alfred St (and I acknowledge that D3 leadership has a different philosophy).

My idea would look something like this: expand Regional Rankings to ~9-10 teams per region. 'Pool A' conference winners must also be ranked in the top 9-10 regionally otherwise their conference's bid becomes an additional at-large for that year.   

That could result in just enough additional at-large bids within the limits of 32 teams. Yes, you won your conference 6-4 Alfred St (congrats!) - but (IMO) Muhlenberg should be playing Mount, SJU instead of UMM (etc.)

Quote from: DriftlessDuhawk on November 14, 2023, 11:17:43 AM
That being said I have no doubt that the region 5 RAC knew exactly what they were doing when ranking Central 7th... I would think they understood that having Central ranked would give Coe a much better resume and would give them the upper hand in the selection process. If I was a St Johns fan I would certainly be upset but at the same time, everyone is playing by the same rules and the region 5 RAC didn't break any rules (though they may have bent them just a touch)...

Was there a more deserving team(s) for 6th/7th? Honest question, I'm not familiar enough with the region to know.

It would be hard to call shenanigans or say that the RAC bent rules if more deserving teams simply don't exist in the region.

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Quote from: d-train on November 10, 2023, 02:50:42 PM
d-train thought Ice Bear mostly wrote in third person. Did I miss a change?

I used to post in the third person for a long time as it was a long held tradition on the LLPP. A fellow poster had enough of it and called me on it. Upon reflection, at my age, I felt it was time to come on here and post like an adult. I put old Ice Bear to rest lol. +k for the memory.

Gotcha. I found it entertaining (like George Constanza) - but all good. 

d-train thought Ice Bear mostly wrote in third person. Did I miss a change?

Quote from: desertcat1 on November 06, 2023, 07:52:26 PM
Are you ok 

Probably not 

I don't have any insight or inside information; I actually haven't seen any NWC games this year

Quote from: desertcat1 on November 06, 2023, 03:29:23 PM
What were the stats at half time D?

No idea, but 5 rushing yards and 5 turnovers were totals. 

Probably some correlation with why I'm not here as much...

Quote from: George Thompson on November 04, 2023, 05:17:14 PM
PLU is over matched.

Hey, double check those passing and penalty yards.   

Unfortunately, there are only 4 at large bids nationwide. Agree with W11 that this is a playoff game.

Quote from: D O.C. on October 14, 2023, 07:19:17 PM
We knew the potential

I mostly post nonsense, so have stayed away.