The scuttlebutt is that men's soccer it coming back, after it was dropped about a decade ago.

What you describe is absolutely the rationale for closing that loophole in the early 1990s, yes.

Quote from: tomt4525 on February 12, 2026, 09:33:23 AMThis forum has gotten ridiculous and less and less about basketball.  Have fun learning about "Heather."

It's super easy to scroll past the chicken stuff.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on February 11, 2026, 01:23:49 PMSetting the cap on D3 tournaments at 64 was a signal to the D1 movers and shakers that D3 would not get too greedy and try to wheedle more than the 4.19% of D1 income that the NCAA allots to D3 every year.

Sadly, it's even less: 3.18%.

Just adding the context that NDSU moving from FCS to FBS is still within Division I, so their move doesn't affect the scholarship levels for any sport other than football.

For Mount Union, or any D-III school, to move to D-II, it has to do so for all of its sports (as you noted). My understanding is that there is a minimum amount of athletic scholarship overall that a school has to fund to be in D-II, but I wasn't able to easily find that info right now. Also, a school must have a D-II conference invite in order to apply for D-II membership.

Quote from: raiderpa on February 08, 2026, 09:26:02 PMThat is a great mention that Fuline has 8 of the 9, 20 wins seasons in Mount history, and was the covid year 20 wins?

Oh yes -- 27-3 that year.

https://d3hoops.com/teams/Mount_Union/men/2019-20/index

In the fall, Flo did a free game of the week for Division III and Division II on its YouTube channel, like it is today for the women's basketball game. I was wondering why they hadn't been doing so for basketball all along to showcase the product, but maybe it was a traffic deflation initiative as much as a showcase?

Quote from: MediaGuy on February 07, 2026, 07:55:42 PM

Quote from: NCC2010 on February 05, 2026, 04:32:49 PMUSee beat me to it...what a great schedule for NCC.  2 years in a row homecoming against Wheaton sure is something.  Bethel and Wartburg to start the season also is great, wish they had the opportunity for 2 OOC games every year...

Let your radio kids know that since ESPN isnt taking up 3 booths in the pressbox, they should have a nice spot to do the game this trip...unlike last time NC came to Waverly.

One of those three was almost certainly the DV Sport replay folks, not actually ESPN, right?

Bethel played Wartburg in 2023 and Platteville in 2022 but I can understand why the memory would be short when it's been Northwestern the past two years.

OK, so, school, yes. Not schools.

Even if true at more than one of the 60 or so, it's not typically widespread and I'd hardly expect Mount Union to do anything the same way that Thiel did.

Yes, St. John's is playing UW-La Crosse to open. It's a home-and-home in 2026 and probably 2028, not 2027.

Quote from: Mister36 on February 05, 2026, 04:00:32 PMNCCs 2026 schedule released today...which is how we find out that Bethel is going back to Naperville start of this season - getting all we can this year from the one OOC opponent I guess.

https://northcentralcardinals.com/sports/football/schedule

That's excellent, and it means that Bethel only recently took that game. North Central went into the offseason still looking for that Week 1 opponent.

Quote from: pradierguy on February 05, 2026, 02:07:38 PMMount Union is adding Women's Flag Football as an official sport. I wonder if any current staff gets plucked to run that program?

That hasn't happened at other schools, for what it's worth.

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on February 04, 2026, 11:32:41 AMTry Point beer. Stevens Point brewery.

As far as I can tell, that beer is not named after the Pointers or UW-Stevens Point.

Titan Gold, by Fox River Brewing, is named for the UW-Oshkosh Titans.
https://untappd.com/b/fox-river-brewing-company-titan-gold/5714291

Quote from: WRMUalum13 on February 04, 2026, 12:09:08 PM

Quote from: Dr. Acula on January 28, 2026, 11:28:08 AMListening to Zac Jackson's podcast from the Senior Bowl.  He said there was buzz of "who is this kid from JCU?"  Sounds like Montgomery is opening some eyes down there.  Also saw on Daniel Jeremiah's draft top 100 that the safety from Toledo is #19.  I'm curious what type of talent VK is going to be able to get to Cuse and develop.

With all the hype I saw on social media I was suprised to see that he had zero touches in the game

The game is actually the least important part of Senior Bowl week.