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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

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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.

Technically, Gallaudet has club teams on the schedule for three of those weeks, but those are probably possible to get out of.

Quote from: DagarmanSpartan on May 06, 2026, 10:59:37 AMGang,

I just noticed on another thread that my own alma mater, Case Western Reserve U., just got a transfer QB from Bates College named Sergio Beltran.

What can you folks tell me about him as a QB?  Should we be excited?

https://gobatesbobcats.com/sports/football/roster/sergio-beltran/17314

In fact, no Division III men's basketball head coach has gone directly from D-III to D-I head coach since 2018.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 04, 2026, 04:35:00 PMConcordia TX earns the Pool A for the SCAC. I do not anticipate a "Pool C" (at-large) bid for the conference.

The term "Pool C" is no longer used.

Jim Dixon and I sat down with the Division III baseball national committee chair to talk about a wide range of topics related to the playoffs and World Series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEyptctISRw

We discuss the use of the NCAA Power Index (NPI) and what tweaks might be coming for the formula in the future, attempts being made to bring more fans out to the World Series in the final year it is being hosted in Eastlake, Ohio, the work being done to keep conferences teams from having to play each other early in the bracket, the importance of filing to host the early rounds of the NCAA postseason, the challenges of the World Series format, where the World Series is going next, could it ever be played on turf, and why the event hasn't found a long-term home since leaving Appleton, Wisconsin, coming up on a decade ago.