All Things 2025 College Football D2 and D3 Thread

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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 :ROFLMAO:
 


theTurning said:
River Falls pulls it off in the last minute, beating Johns Hopkins in a shootout 48-41.

Blaha goes for 520 and 5 TDs. They will play in their first ever Stagg Bowl on Jan 4. Lots of Minnesota kids on that roster.
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GophersInIowa said:
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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.
 





Championship goes to Ferris State out of Big Rapids, MI.
BTW, that is a nice high school football field at McKinney, Texas where the championship was played.
 

GopherGrit said:
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 :ROFLMAO:
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People still spouting off about the Wisconsin schools being D3?

UWRF beat Johns Hopkins today. Including grad students, JH has a student population of over 30,000. They are grandfathered up to the D1 level in lacrosse as a B1G member. School size has nothing to do with athletic classification.
 

D2 schools offer scholarships, none of the Wisconsin schools offer scholarships.
 





GopherGrit said:
Why is it wrong to think that the smaller UW schools should be offering scholarships?
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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.
 

disco said:
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.
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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).
 

GopherGrit said:
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).
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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.)
 

disco said:
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.)
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I don't understand your post? All I've said is that I think the small UW schools should choose to offer scholarships.

Also, DIII does have precedent of kicking schools out. That's what the Pioneer League is, right now, schools that were kicked out of DIII football (because they played DI basketball).
 

Interesting local angle with Harding. Local kid transferred there from Bemidji St., says he was kicked off the team for being gay, transferred back home to Mankato and had another great season.
 

GopherGrit said:
I don't understand your post? All I've said is that I think the small UW schools should choose to offer scholarships.

Also, DIII does have precedent of kicking schools out. That's what the Pioneer League is, right now, schools that were kicked out of DIII football (because they played DI basketball).
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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.
 

GopherGrit said:
I don't understand your post? All I've said is that I think the small UW schools should choose to offer scholarships.

Also, DIII does have precedent of kicking schools out. That's what the Pioneer League is, right now, schools that were kicked out of DIII football (because they played DI basketball).
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Any school playing Div I Basketball or football must play any NCAA affiliated sport offered by the school at the Div I.

I am not aware of any other mandates.

Probably what should happen is Div 3 football should probably split into public/private designations. A lower price tag makes it much easier to recruit players who are paying their own way to school.

I am thinking that the NCAA does not want to or can not show across all Div 3 football that the tuition costs make the whole situation so unfair as to need to intervene. The financial advantage to otherwise Div 3 schools of playing Div I basketball or football was much more apparent.
 

McGopherFan said:
Any school playing Div I Basketball or football must play any NCAA affiliated sport offered by the school at the Div I.

I am not aware of any other mandates.

Probably what should happen is Div 3 football should probably split into public/private designations. A lower price tag makes it much easier to recruit players who are paying their own way to school.

I am thinking that the NCAA does not want to or can not show across all Div 3 football that the tuition costs make the whole situation so unfair as to need to intervene. The financial advantage to otherwise Div 3 schools of playing Div I basketball or football was much more apparent.
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It’s much easier for the private D3’s to give aid that essentially an athletic scholarship though.
 


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