Awesome ending.
This is fun. I got my teaching undergrad at UWRF. With reciprocity RF was the best deal for the buck. They were rated top 10 in the nation for education schools at the time and they were half the cost of Minnesota schools. I would guess this is a big reason so many Minnesota kids are playing there. There is a freshman from Burnsville that attends my church and is on the RF football team. Congratulations to the Falcons.
Here's to hoping the kids from Big Rapids hold on to win.
People still spouting off about the Wisconsin schools being D3?Seems like one of those Wisconsin schools is always in it, every year. Rotates around as to which school it is, but one of them.
They should pull a MIAC kicking out St Thomas and kick the Wisconsin schools up to DII
Why is it wrong to think that the smaller UW schools should be offering scholarships?
Why is that even something to discuss? There's literally no requirement for schools to be D2 or D3 in terms of size, public v. private etc. It's simply how they choose to classify and how much they choose to invest in athletics.
In my opinion, the smaller UW schools should choose to offer scholarships (to their rosters largely made up of Wisconsin high school student athletes, whose families have paid Wisconsin state taxes for their entire lives).
Well, your opinion has nothing to do with how colleges choose to classify their athletic programs.If the outstate MN public schools all decided to drop down to D3, they could. UM-Morris actually did. (and Crookston probably should.)
I don't understand your post? All I've said is that I think the small UW schools should choose to offer scholarships.
No. The Pioneer League is a group of D1 schools that choose not to offer football scholarships. UST wasn't kicked out of D3 football. Morehead State has always been D1, but just chose to not offer scholarship football. Austin Peay was the same until they went back to offering scholarships. Several members over the years, like Campbell, chose the PFL to re-start football after many years without the sport.
Any school playing Div I Basketball or football must play any NCAA affiliated sport offered by the school at the Div I.
It’s much easier for the private D3’s to give aid that essentially an athletic scholarship though.
True. But wouldn't NIL still exist at lower levels, meaning players could still get a bag of cash?
Why is it "easier"?
Not saying you're wrong, but I have never heard of this.
Maybe RF doesn't, but Whitewater surely does.
Do you have any proof of this, even anecdotal?
I understand why it was founded. But that's not really the case today.Pioneer Football League - Wikipedia
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The PFL was created as a direct result of an NCAA rule change passed in January 1991, which required Division I schools to sponsor all of their sports at the Division I level by 1993. Charter members included Butler University, the University of Dayton, Drake University, the University of Evansville, and Valparaiso University.[1] The University of San Diego joined in 1992, and the league played its first season in 1993.
