There are 10? d3 conferences on Flo now?  It's hard to keep track sometimes.  That would be the 27%, correct?

I suspect the other deals are like the New England schools covered by NSN or some local production company that they outsource to?

With the first pick in the draft, I'm taking Chapman!

Quote from: y_jack_lok on June 01, 2026, 01:44:00 PM^^^Yep. Every year I have to call Spectrum to see what kind of a renewal deal I can get on my internet. This year they actually increased my speed, sent me a new modem, and lowered the price by $10/month.

I have an unboxed Verizon router sitting next to my desk.  It's not nearly as powerful or effective as the one I bought myself, but they cut $10 a month off my bill for letting them send it to me!

#Capitalism

The discount when you try to cancel is pretty par for the course.  I've been underpaying for Peacock for years now.  Looks, though, like I've finally exhausted my luck.  Might have to go without for a while.

I've been a subscriber since they started and I think I've paid a total of like $60.  I got the free trial sub when they started, cancelled immediately, but they didn't shut off access for over two years.  At that point, they offered me $1.99 a month, then, when I tried to cancel, $2.99 a month, which I've been paying ever since.  I renewed for one month at $10.99 just to get the end of the Western Conference Finals, but I'm going to let this lapse and see what offer they come up with next.

Early in the process, when these streamers are looking to build subs over making profit, they just want people signed up, even if it's a loss for them.

Quote from: WUPHF on May 27, 2026, 10:30:42 AM

Quote from: Ron Boerger on May 27, 2026, 10:19:53 AMOglethorpe - 2025 audit shows endowments of somewhere around $55M, an increase of around $4.1M from the previous year, so other factors may be responsible for that number.  Their annual expenses for 2025 were around $41M, they took in nearly $38M, and their tuition discount rate was nearly 66%. 

Detailed breakdowns would be educational.

Right, I would also be curious about their executive compensation.  If they pay $400K to the dean of the business school, well...

On their 2024 filing, nobody over $300k, but probably a few too many six figure salaries for the size of the school.  Loss $3m on the year.  $50m endowment.  Probably not panic mode, but they can't be feeling great. Certainly a better situation than a lot of other schools.

Quote from: MCScots2013 on May 22, 2026, 01:36:26 PM-votech/trade school you mentioned? (Honestly, I'm a shocked it's only 54%.  Thought that would be 3 out of 4 for trade school.)

You have to remember this includes female dominated fields, like cosmetology and massage, along with more traditionally male fields like plumbing and electrical (trades which are making very concerted efforts to recruit women, anyway).

This used to be the difference between liberal arts and public institutions - one was more focused on personal development and the other on job training.  Liberal Arts got popular and many public schools shifted to compete.  Now the trend seems to be moving in the other direction and many liberal arts schools are shifting.

You're either going to be rich enough to compensate for changing trends or you have to shift to match the students you're trying to attract.

I think there will always be a market for both, but the size of that market is going to change dramatically from season to season.

Quote from: y_jack_lok on May 20, 2026, 01:39:17 PM

Quote from: CNU85 on May 20, 2026, 10:50:26 AMInteresting informtion. I hope BW successfuly comes through this. Also intersting that Economics was eliminated. Hopefully they still offer some courses. I believe it is important for every student to at least be introduced to it. So does ACTA when they evaluate institutions. I know at CNU, every student has to take at least one Econ class, it might be 2.

What is ACTA? Requiring students to take one or two economics courses wasn't part of the RMC curriculum back when I attended in the 1960s. Nor was it a requirement at Fordham U in New York City where my son graduated in 2009. Is it something recent?

I suspect so.  My daughter enters HS next year and the 10th grade social studies requirement went from 1 of 5 options covering a variety of topics to just either micro-economics or macro-economics.  I believe this is a statewide push.  They've also massively pumped up the portion of her middle school social studies curriculum that covers economics.

It could be a distinctive of Delaware (where we live), but our state tends to follow trends, rather than set the, so I'm guessing it's a nationwide push.

In.

Quote from: SpringSt7 on May 18, 2026, 03:32:31 PMMakes a lot of sense to leave late if you want your kid to get the job

That's just it.  It's not necessarily late, especially in terms of trying to dictate a successor.  Timing is curious, that's all.  Lot's of great coaches will want this job.

Quote from: Stickthe3 on May 18, 2026, 12:20:56 PMWow, that's big news about Ippolito.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised given the current climate of college basketball, but that's a tough loss for Trinity.

On an unrelated note, Bentley HC Jay Lawson just announced his retirement.  It's probably too late for Nolan Ames to make any changes at this point, but got to feel for the kid as he initially committed to Colby, only to decommit after their coaching change, and now the coach he was planning on playing for is retiring (assuming he did not know about Lawson's plans).

I think that Bentley timing is weird.  Very late to make that announcement.  I'm watching this in conjunction with the rumors that more of the NE10 are exploring d3.  If (and I have no reporting on this at all) a school makes the decision to go that direction, it's often during this time of year.

We'd have to see how it plays out in each situation, but I have a hard time believing any school will have as much of an uphill battle as Hartford has.  Between the transition fights internally, the coach blowing the situation up, and a lot of skeptical alumni, that's been a very difficult effort.

Maybe nobody does better, but other schools would have more chance, I think.

Quote from: KnightSlappy on May 15, 2026, 10:57:51 AM

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.

I'm curious, though, if that would happen were a whole conference to come at once?  You can still have rivalries and a conference tournament.  You're not eligible for championships, but it's a much easier sell to recruits - still something to play for.

Cortland (x1.5)

Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 14, 2026, 11:31:37 AM

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 think that 8-12 might move out of this group.

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

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

Is there a possibility that D3 can prohibit NIL amongst its athletes? That athlete can compete in other organizations of a sport, either amateur or pro. If D3 decides that NIL is not part of its structure, I would hope that the government would not compel D3 to adopt something it did not wish to have.

There's no chance to keep students from making money on their NIL - that's a legal right.  D1 is moving to straight out paying players.  I suspect D3 could legislate a model the way D1 originally tried to do it - with the schools staying out of it.  Is there really a scenario where even a big school NIL collective is ever going to pay a d3 star more than a couple hundred bucks a month?

The big problem at the d1 level is how many rich folks are willing to throw money away to win games for their school.  That's not going to last forever and it's just unlikely to have a big impact at our level.

I think it's great that the Hampden-Sydney guys can get a free couch and wings on Thursday for tweeting about and showing up at local businesses.  That feels completely in line with the d3 ethic.

I'd love to find a way to make sure the athletes are actually doing something for their money (autograph signing, local commercial, whatever) rather than just collecting checks, but that might be hard to legislate.