Among the brightest of NCC's many stars over the last several years, Shane Dierking '14/M'16, a D3Football.com First Team All-American, and current Assistant Head Coach & Defensive Coordinator, and D3Football.com First Team All-American, and Gagliardi Award winner, Broc Rutter'20, will be inducted into the North Central College Athletic Hall of Fame in conjunction with Homecoming activities on October 10th.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on June 24, 2026, 11:48:25 AM

Quote from: GusD on June 23, 2026, 09:35:45 PMNCC's new 🏀 GA for the next two seasons is Nathan Valentine who began his career at IWU before transferring to Lawrence where he played the last two years.

A former Titan on the North Central coaching staff? Something tells me that the two of you aren't going to have the warmest of relationships, even though he'll be wearing a Cardinals polo and will be two or three seats away from Vince Kmiec on the NCC bench.

Por favor, Señor Sager. Green has long been my favorite color. 

It hasn't been approved for D3.

It's going to be a cluster F___ for many involved in D3 sports.  This is going to be a battle between
Smaller College's with high tuitions
VS
Larger University's with lower tuitions.
Do players still grey shirt as much? Will this lead to less opportunities to transfer from D3 -> D1?
What's going to happen to D2?
Will players from D2 schools still have Redshirts if they transfer to a D3 school?

Interesting seeing Nelson on the HS schedule.

I sure wish we could convince them to make the jump from the SAC/NAIA to the ASC.

Same with Wayland.

The travel budgets for the SAC must be brutal.

So the new 5 in 5 role is going to take place. Does this help Mount Union in any way (it looks like it's approved for D3)? For those of you that don't know, this means all athletes can play 5 seasons within 5 years....period. No more redshirts...

Brandon Bowden shared info here, but not sure that means he's coming back or not.
https://x.com/i/status/2069930617156849718

Going to lose my mind, yet ANOTHER mid November game between Clarkson and SLU.  Who on earth is making these decisions?  Never mind the fact it's a league game played on November 14th which is ridiculous in itself, the rivalry series between these teams for decades was always played in December at the earliest.  And yet another season where SLU and Clarkson are the only teams to play 6 consecutive road games.

No schedule posted yet for Trine MBB in '26-'27 yet, but we do have news that they will be heading to Vegas for one of the Division III in-season Tournaments.

Teams set to compete in the 2026 NABC Division III Tournament – Las Vegas include: Chicago, Elmhurst, Emory, Keene State, Randolph-Macon, Redlands, Trine and Wabash.

 

Quote from: stlawus on June 24, 2026, 03:11:33 PMSLU

Swaps out Middlebury for Oneonta. First time playing Oneonta at home since 2011. 

The coach has a lot of work ahead of him in terms of getting back alumni support. 

That he does

With Bosnia's 3-1 victory over Qatar, commentators are reporting that it's all but certain the US will play Bosnia in the Round of 32 on July 1 in Santa Clara. 

Switzerland beat Bosnia pretty handily in an earlier Group Stage game, but only after slogging through the first 70+ minutes of a 0-0 tie.

Quote from: USee on June 23, 2026, 10:28:19 PM

Quote from: FiredCoachesPod on June 23, 2026, 11:56:00 AMThe article from Forbes is nothing more than a "we don't have all the facts piece."

What do you base this opinion on? What facts do you have?

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