FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[D3fanboy]

NIL and D3.

https://www.footballscoop.com/2026/03/26/division-iii-programs-are-wading-into-the-nil-waters-with-commitments-as-big-as-250k-to-300k

it's March, I think some speculation on these comments is fully acceptable on the d3boards, right?

I've got my guesses on the six

[NCC2010]

Here are Marey Roby and JP Sullivan's testing results from the Western Illinois combine.

https://x.com/football_ncc/status/2038078255417167910?s=46&t=2LpDHlmLWW7A7c0oIFbv5Q

Roby earned himself a workout with the Bears

https://x.com/nuicfootball/status/2038000607600992527?s=46&t=2LpDHlmLWW7A7c0oIFbv5Q

[D3fanboy]

Here are Marey Roby and JP Sullivan's testing results from the Western Illinois combine.

https://x.com/football_ncc/status/2038078255417167910?s=46&t=2LpDHlmLWW7A7c0oIFbv5Q

Roby earned himself a workout with the Bears

https://x.com/nuicfootball/status/2038000607600992527?s=46&t=2LpDHlmLWW7A7c0oIFbv5Q

4.87 40 and 32 bench makes pretty good sense for how Sullivan was a game wrecker at DT for years at the D3 level.  I'd no doubt give him a shot in my mini camp if I was an NFL team.  Reminds me of Tom Lally from Mount a decade ago, got a tryout with the Panthers. 

It's just never been tougher for D3FB guys to get a shot in the NFL   

[DriftlessDuhawk]

it's March, I think some speculation on these comments is fully acceptable on the d3boards, right?

I've got my guesses on the six

I think limiting this to just 6 schools would be the biggest amount of speculation. Every single school who hopes to be competitive in the next few years of college football is already in the NIL space in one form or another. Love it or hate it, its here and if your school isn't using it they are falling behind.

[Patrick Coleman]

it's March, I think some speculation on these comments is fully acceptable on the d3boards, right?

I've got my guesses on the six

I think limiting this to just 6 schools would be the biggest amount of speculation. Every single school who hopes to be competitive in the next few years of college football is already in the NIL space in one form or another. Love it or hate it, its here and if your school isn't using it they are falling behind.

I talk about this in the podcast that we dropped today:
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2026/03/29/atn-podcast-405-new-faces-new-places-in-d-iii/

The one school that is regularly ID'ed in the scuttlebutt is not someone one would suspect.

[NCC2010]

Interesting to note that NCC has changed the name of their high school prospect camp this summer to "Naperville Championship football camp"  Was previously named North Central College Football Camp.

Wondering if that means the name change for the college is imminent/happening...

https://x.com/CoachDierking/status/2038642195083751702?s=20

[Gregory Sager]

Interesting to note that NCC has changed the name of their high school prospect camp this summer to "Naperville Championship football camp"  Was previously named North Central College Football Camp.

Wondering if that means the name change for the college is imminent/happening...

https://x.com/CoachDierking/status/2038642195083751702?s=20

Either that, or the football camp's webpage has been hacked by a Wheatie.

[GusD]

In recent remarks on the subject of a possible name change new NCC President Gòkè-Paríolá said:

If they are in Maryland and you try to recruit them and say 'Come to North Central College' well, you've got your work cut out for you. But when you tell them, 'it's in Naperville,' they say 'Oh, Naperville, I know Naperville,' or 'I read something about it.'

We definitely always tell people we are located in Naperville so we can make that be more prominent every time.

It certainly seems that the winds are starting to blow strongly in the direction of Naperville. 💨 💨 💨

[Gregory Sager]

Really? What percentage of the population of Maryland can tell you in which state Naperville is located?

I have no dog in this hunt, but I fully understand the rationale behind changing the school's name from North Central College to Naperville College (or Naperville University). Compass-point school names don't really work well as location indicators -- which therefore makes the name self-defeating -- unless it's attached to a state, e.g., Eastern New Mexico University or Central Michigan University. Northwestern University, for example, has a dumb name. It was founded 48 years after the Northwest Territory (the massive chunk of the midwest, including present-day Illinois, that began as unorganized U.S. property after the American Revolution was won) became an obsolete term, and, since California became a state the year before the university was founded, the school was no longer located in the northwestern part of the country. Fortunately for NU, it's the oldest school in the state and one of its most prestigious institutions of higher learning, and it is just outside of the city limits of a world-class city, so everybody knows where it's located regardless of the inaccuracy of the school's name.

NCC doesn't have that luxury. The school may be vaguely described as being in the north-central part of the country (if you're generous regarding geography, seeing as how the center of the country's northern tier is in the Dakotas, not Illinois), but it's so ridiculously broad a term that it's really no help in delineating the school's location. And it isn't even in the north-central part of Illinois, either (for that matter, Northwestern is in the state's northeastern corner).

Naperville isn't nearly as well-known nationally as some of its residents seem to believe it is (including NCC's president), but it's at least an accurate location-based name for a school, a la such other D3 private-school peers as Lake Forest, Lynchburg, Oberlin, Haverford, Anderson, Ithaca, Middlebury, Redlands, etc.

Now, Carthage, on the other hand ... ;-)