Re: Any Potential new DIII Programs and the future of the Northeast 10 DII teams?
Playing the absolute maximum amount of games and having a slim chance at the NCAA tournament are things that are often way more important to people on message boards than they are to the colleges themselves.
Administrator A: "Hey, we have a program that brings in 30 tuition paying students; brings in some of our only students from midwestern states and Canada; fills a dozen dates at our on campus arena [applies to St. Anselm, not the rest of the NE-10]; and keeps a small, but dedicated, part of our alumni base happy. But, there's a problem."
Administrator B: "Sounds great so far... what's the problem?"
Administrator A: "After playing our league schedule and a half dozen local rivals with [loyalty to us; no championship aspirations; another sensible reason] we fall 3 or 4 games short of the maximum allowable games every year! Plus, even though we get to play in our conference tournament, our division doesn't have a national championship, so we don't have a 1 in 8 to 10 chance of being shipped to a school in Vermont or New York to lose a one-and-done playoff game on a Wednesday night at the end of the season."
Administrator B: "My Goodness! Suspend sponsorship of that program!"
See how silly that is? You guys see it, right?
There are problems with the current set-up, and everything possible should be done to make things more equitable for the D-II schools, but things are not nearly as dire as some people here suggest. Please, stop making half-cocked suggestions about what reasonably healthy programs, with problems that are more important to message board posters than most school administrators, are going to suddenly shutter their programs in the next couple of years.
