Re: Will the DII's ever get out of Limbo?
Wouldn't reducing D-II scholly's to 0 enable the D-III's to compete on a level playing field???
BTW, D-II men can offer 13.5 schollys, while the D-II women can offer 18.0. Hmmmmmm......
To my knowledge D 2 does not give any scholarship money for athletics, like any NCAA D 2 or D 3 they give need based scholarships and outright academic scholarships. Who would want to interfere with the widespread policy of allowing students with merit but little money to have a crack at a college education. Further I don't think this leveling effect that some here are advocating takes into account the intangibles that speak to what a quality educational institution is all about.
Many D 2 schools are expensive private institutions and probably would not have the balance of students that any educational enterprise wants to achieve, including actual bodies to play and maintain their sports programs and a balanced student body.
I would lament the loss of autonomy and decision making that some here propose. Schools have traditions and they have varied yet focused mandates and, yes. some make better decisions than others, but what we are missing is that every institution should have as much autonomy in decision making as possible to create, maintain and extend their vision into the future unencumbered by the one size fits all mentality perpetuated here.
I don't know of any schools that are handing out athletic scholarships in the D 2 or D 3 colleges. So how is there any material advantage. Schools in my experience have followed the rules and don't even need the rules because their mandate has been to create a school climate defined by the diversity of student participants it houses. In other words the focus has been appropriately academic in nature and they get the best quality student athletes who are academically sound as possible. They know that their reputation rests at the end of the day on their academic reputation.
Case closed. You are trying to measure and micro manage issues that have much more significance than score sheets and what looks to be reverse logic. The schools with this mythical and unrealized advantage are those that have the worst records, and always will. Why? Because they know which side their bread is buttered on: the academic side.
My final point is that logic and ethical practices go together, you are only as good as your reputation. No school can afford to or is purposely trying to obfuscate the rules or the intent of the rules, they are quite simply trying to do the best they can to exercise their mandate in a way that they believe furthers the public good and meets the very unique and specific needs of their respective school communities.
I doubt that players are going to flock to D 2 schools for a perceived funding advantage that probably does not exist. I am unaware of any athletic scholarships in D 2 or D3 although someone mentioned RIT? Who says that the D 2 schools have more, less or even as much money or discretion, in policy and practice, with money in their athletic departments. I think the whole thing is smoke and mirrors and a red herring. The real issue is allowing a long overdue change allowing D 2 to compete in a championship that they have every right to compete in as they play in the same loop. All other distinctions are self-serving and tend to confuse the central issue of fairness, holding the proper decision in abeyance while stone walling continues.
The fallacy of a D 2 advantage is ludicrous as even with the proposed change it is unlikely that any D 2 team would qualify for the championship. The truth is in the pudding and I doubt that players are going to flock to D 2 schools just because they can realize the right to qualify to play in a championship which is the crowning glory of all of their considerable athletic efforts throughout the year. To say otherwise is to reveal your partisan nature and to engage in rhetoric and double-speak. The time for stone walling is over, if you believe in fairness, be fair. Don't set out to prove a point, let's take the opportunity at hand to right a wrong.
The Draft went away in the 1970's.
