Future of Division III

[Flying Dutch Fan]

MIAA press release on an interesting approach to increasing revenue.

https://miaa.org/news/2025/8/21/miaa-launches-new-collaboration-with-brentwood-partners.aspx

The MIAA is moving to Flo Sports!  I am kidding.  Mostly.  Other conferences started with a consultants.

Bite your tongue till it bleeds please!!!  You are almost as bad as a Calvin fan

[y_jack_lok]

MIAA press release on an interesting approach to increasing revenue.

https://miaa.org/news/2025/8/21/miaa-launches-new-collaboration-with-brentwood-partners.aspx

Sounds like they're spending money in order to make money. At least with FloSports the schools (and conferences??) simply get money. At least I assume that's how it works. I hope this approach works for the MIAA. Will be interesting to see how it goes.

[Gregory Sager]

MIAA press release on an interesting approach to increasing revenue.

https://miaa.org/news/2025/8/21/miaa-launches-new-collaboration-with-brentwood-partners.aspx

The MIAA is moving to Flo Sports!  I am kidding.  Mostly.  Other conferences started with a consultants.

Bite your tongue till it bleeds please!!!  You are almost as bad as a Calvin fan

[ziggy]

MIAA press release on an interesting approach to increasing revenue.

https://miaa.org/news/2025/8/21/miaa-launches-new-collaboration-with-brentwood-partners.aspx

Sounds like they're spending money in order to make money. At least with FloSports the schools (and conferences??) simply get money. At least I assume that's how it works. I hope this approach works for the MIAA. Will be interesting to see how it goes.

Honestly, I'm not really sure what the approach is but the press release certainly contains words!

With frequent use of words like partnering/partnership ideally this deal would see the conference only be paying out of some kind of value add and that the conference can expect an ROI on this deal.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'm not so naive as to think it's not because of the money, I just wonder if the decades of major financial support was a no-brainer when looking for a new name (something which can be more than contentious), rather than the driver of the new name.

I do not believe you are naive.  And you may be right.  I have been trying to work it out in my head whether or not the Wesleyan in Virginia Wesleyan is a drag on recruiting.  It may well be.

Perhaps especially in the South and since VWU is actually UMC and not Wesleyan, and those two denominations seem to be moving further and further away from each other.  It's a possibility, anyway.