Looking at these numbers, they haven't been adjusted for international students, so a number of schools in the 1.4% bracket with over $700k/student could end up in the 7% bracket.  Emory, Bryn Mawr, Trinity(TX), possibly even UChicago - only $561k/student but which has a large international student cohort.

Checking here every day to see if the Lebanon Valley position is filled.

LOL no, I've never seen the SAA more lively in anything, basketball or football.  Used to be a pretty active poster from Birmingham-Southern before they went belly up.  You'll have me from time to time in basketball now that Trinity's full-time SAA.

Article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (free account required*) describes how some small colleges, including many D3s, are banding together to try and stop the greatly increased taxation of endowment earnings proposed in the budget bill passed by the House and now in the Senate.  The gist of the article is that small colleges use the bulk of their investment earnings to underwrite annual operating expenses and provide scholarships, and losing 7-21% of that would seriously impact those uses.

* - I could read it Friday morning, but am now told I have to subscribe.  Hopefully you can get one reading for free.

The current tax rate is 1.4% for a small number of colleges.  Under the new proposal the rate would be determined by endowment assets per student, and only students who are American citizens count for this which has the effect of increasing the calculated values.  Schools with endowment assets of $500K-$749.9K would pay 1.4% of investment earnings; $750K-$1,249.9K, 7%; $1250K-$1,999.9K, 14%; over $2M, 21%.  Unlike your income taxes you pay the highest rate for the entire amount.   The schools that would be impacted and their new tax range are provided here: https://www.ai-cio.com/news/the-private-universities-affected-by-proposed-tiered-endowment-tax/

Cross-posting from the 2025 schedules thread

Ursinus

Ursinus showed they could win non-conference games the last two seasons, but they've only won 1 conference game each of those past two seasons.  It looks like they're taking off the training wheels this year perhaps in an effort to prepare themselves better for the rigors of Centennial play.  They've dropped some of the weaker teams from their 2024 schedule - Medgar Evers (who they beat 8-0 in 2024 and 8-0 in 2023), Penn State Berks (who they beat 7-0 in 2024 and 9-0 in 2023), and Penn State Brandywine (who they beat 5-3 in 2024).  They also dropped Immaculata (who they beat 5-2 in 2023 and 1-0 in 2024) and Moravian.  In their place, they've added St. Mary's of Maryland and Salisbury away on opening weekend, Lycoming, Gwynedd Mercy, Stockton, and Misericordia.

Is the SAA any more lively in basketball?  Maryville is up next year....

Quote from: Pat Coleman on Yesterday at 03:02:46 PMConverting QBs to other positions is quite common.

I believe wildcat11 was one of those.

Rutgers-Camden

Rutgers-Camden walked a tightrope last season.  An astounding 16 of their 21 games were 1-0 wins, 0-1 losses, or 0-0/1-1 ties. Of the remaining 5 games, only 3 were decided by more than one goal and only 1 decided by more than two goals.  Could just have been quirk, but maybe they are a team that plays compactly and conservatively, mucks things up and hopes to nick a goal in a scramble in the box and avoid a similar fate on the other end.  That is the kind of strategy that helps a team stay in a game against a top team and allows a weaker team to hang with them when they shouldn't.  Either way, changing opponents under that scenario doesn't necessarily change results, so why bother?  This year's schedule kind of reflects that attitude.  They drop Neumann and Rosemont and add St. John's Fisher, Salisbury and Muhlenberg.

Misericordia

Drops Penn State-Brandywine and adds NYU and Ursinus

Ursinus

It looks like they're taking off the training wheels this year as they've dropped some of the weakest teams from their 2024 schedule - Medgar Evers (who they beat 8-0), Penn State Berks (who they beat 7-0), and Penn State Brandywine (who they beat 5-3).  They also dropped Immaculata and Moravian.  In their place, they've added St. Mary's of Maryland and Salisbury away on opening weekend, Lycoming, Gwynedd Mercy, Stockton, and Misericordia.

The framework for Calvin's 2025-26 schedule has been posted, but many of the opponents at specific tournaments are showing as TBD.

https://calvinknights.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule

Converting QBs to other positions is quite common.