Hardin-Simmons schedule drops:
https://www.d3football.com/teams/Hardin-Simmons/2026/index

We had done some speculation about it in the mailbag segment on the pod which dropped today:
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2026/06/23/atn-podcast-410-polar-bears-in-ireland-new-coach-in-dc-preseason-thoughts/

With all the talk about the the pool of students shrinking multiple schools in the CCIW posted strong new student enrollment numbers in 2025.

NCC Record Number of New Students

Carroll Largest Freshmen Class in School History

Carthage Largest Incoming Class in School History

IWU Largest Incoming Class in 15 Years

NPU 3rd Largest Number of 1rst Year Students in School History

Quote from: WUPHF on June 23, 2026, 11:19:31 AM

Quote from: GusD on June 23, 2026, 12:17:11 AMAt most schools today, certainly not all, "the student experience overall" doesn't really depend that much on whether the school has a Greek system in place.

No one said this or anything else to the contrary.

It is one school considering the possibility of adding Greek life.

Just a comment based on what I've heard both from students and alums/boosters from several schools, both D1 and D3, WUPHF. I wasn't trying to start an argument either way. 🤗

OK.  Messi, Mbappe, Haaland, AND Ronaldo are decent (although Ronaldo is mostly decent against Uzbekistan-level teams these days). 

I expect Emory Men's Soccer to announce that one or more of these guys are transferring there for the fall season.

Quote from: IC798891 on June 22, 2026, 05:12:05 PMThis is not an apples to apples comparison in large part due to schedule strength, but looking at Utica's 4th year, they were 3-7, and competitive most weeks. They beat Hartwick and a 5-4 RPI, lost by 11 to 8-win Alfred and 17 to St. John Fisher's only Pool A team ever.

Hilbert went winless, and only two losses were even close: a 28-7 loss to 2-8 St. Vincent and a 15-8 loss to a 1-9 Buffalo State.

They grew their roster from 46 players in 2024 to 63 last year. Which is encouraging, but still seems low for a 4th year program

The Utica comparison highlights how far behind Hilbert is.  In addition to being competitive in most games by year three, Utica had a 95 man roster, had built a real facility, and was under the same HC that started the program - Mike Kemp, who had previously been HC at Plymouth State and OC at Cortland in the 1990s. I think Hilbert is happy just to field a team and cash the tuition checks - I see zero interest (and probably no capacity) to do what it takes for them to be competitive.

Macalester

Very strong non-conference schedule:

@Wisconsin-Platteville
@Luther
Wartburg
@Wisconsin-Whitewater
@Wisconsin Eau-Claire
Wisconsin-Superior

The only school in the group not to have a winning record last season was Wartburg and they were 8-8-2 and lost to Luther in the ARC Championship game.  Plus, few schools play that many away non-conference games.

Carleton

Not a horrible season, but definitely a below average one in which they didn't even make the MIAC conference tournament and lost pretty handily to some of the top teams in the conference.  This year, UC Santa Cruz and Grinnell pay return visits and they add Wisconsin-Eau Claire and subtract Lincoln (CA), which is a big upgrade.

Summary of transfers in and out of NESCAC this off-season.  Unless there are a few more impact players incoming, overall it's certainly a net talent loss for the conference. 

Departing:

Ray Cuevas - Bowdoin to Brown
Dan Civello - Colby to Dartmouth
Tristan Joseph - Middlebury (didn't play last year) to NYU
Paul Ippolito - Trinity to Redlands
Quron Zene - Conn College to Rhode Island College
James Lafrance - Conn College to University of Tampa

Incoming:

Ben Miller - Hartford to Colby
Bohdan Biekietov - F&M to Amherst
Connor O'Leary - Assumption to Trinity

Conn's Dylan Watson was another notable name in the transfer portal, but so far as I've seen he's not landed anywhere else, so perhaps he is returning.

On a related note, former Amherst recruit Max Klitschko, who ended up foregoing Amherst to play for the Ukraine national team, will be playing D1 hoops at East Carolina next year. 

If Watson does return, that's still only two of the top eight, and ten of the top 20, scorers returning in the conference, and only 4/14 all-conference players returning, so the league will look radically difference.  Not to mention two new head coaches! 

Quote from: Kuiper on June 21, 2026, 07:11:15 PM

Quote from: Kuiper on June 21, 2026, 02:00:49 PMTurns out that half of Emory's announced recruiting class are transfers, all but one of whom were regular contributors/star players at their former schools and all of whom have multiple years of eligibility left. 

Ewen Robertson F Colorado College (D3) (rising sophomore) (started 17/18 games with 14g/2a)
Jack Yough D VMI (D1) (rising sophomore) (started 17/18 games with 3g/0a)
Justin Buchwalter (D3) (rising junior) (started 22/38 games with 5g/3a)
Jeremiah Cateau MF Holy Cross (D1) (rising junior) (yet to see action; Trinidad & Tobago U20 and U17 YNT player)

This feels like the next evolution of transfers, from grad, medical redshirt, and Covid transfers to transfers of proven players with lots of years left instead of relying upon unproven freshman.  The reason I mention it in this thread is that it might represent a more national trend, at least with some of the more attractive soccer/academic schools where they accept transfers, of the squeezing of DI rosters.  Middling D1 players and strong D3 players all enter the portal to move up and both may be finding that their best option is a better (academic/soccer/location) D3.  I'll be interested to see if other transfer-friendly schools like Johns Hopkins are doing the same thing.

Another transfer to Emory!  Although this one is a grad transfer.

Walker Stebbings F Hampden-Sydney (D3) (started 17/18 games with 6g/2a and 2nd team All Region VI and first team All ODAC)

If Emory can knit all of this new talent together with existing players, they are going to be stacked!

I don't mean to be focusing on Emory.  I'm sure other schools are doing it and I'm missing them or they aren't posting about it.  Nevertheless, here's another transfer announced by Emory.

Andreas Stroemme D University of Denver (D1), Oslo, Norway (redshirt freshman, so hasn't used any eligibility)

Like the grad transfer, this is more of the typical D1 player who leaves after getting no playing time.  Still, at a top D1 program, redshirting your freshman year is pretty typical.

So, Emory now has 6 transfers and 4 freshman recruits announced. 

 Thought there were ~ 6 coming in; it's been a while since it was discussed.

The article from Forbes is nothing more than a "we don't have all the facts piece."