Anyone else have a stake in the D3 title game?

Seems like there's more people on the journalist's message board that think UWW can win... more than on d3football.com's board.

 

Wonderful to see so many ex-DIII'ers on here.

 

Interested primarily as a D-III grad myself.

Secondary interest: Why Wisconsin schools...WISCONSIN...always seem to have such good D-III programs in every sport. I mean, who in hell opts to play baseball in Wisconsin?

 

WIAC is the SEC of D-3.

 

Don't be a hater. Wisconsin's where it's at.

 

Not being a hater...my freshman year, we beat No. 3-ranked Wisconsin-Oshkosh in baseball. But I remembered thinking, in the midst of the celebration, "Why are we celebrating upsetting a team that's probably barely seen its field this spring?"

Somehow, they get great players up that way, snow be damned.

 

If that's the case, then the OAC is like the ACC, the Empire 8/Liberty League is like the Big East, and the NEFC is like the WAC.. a couple of good teams that get zero respect in the postseason.

 

Actually, since most of Division III is private and the WIAC is entirely state-funded schools, the WIAC gets little respect as far as postseason bids are concerned. Their bids versus the relative quality of its teams is criminally low.

Then again, most of the WIAC schools should be Division II, or hell, even Division I for a few of them based on their enrollment.

WIAC enrollment
Oshkosh 10,744
Whitewater 10,671
Eau Claire (Go Blugolds!) 10,647
La Crosse 9,409
Stevens Point 8,757
Stout 7,877
River Falls 5,899
Platteville 5,559
Superior 2,881

I mean ... shit. The Division I public school I cover, which plays in a pretty good basketball conference, barely clears 11,000 and its enrollment has been in serious decline for a decade or so.

 

Yeah.. the Wisconsin system is similar to the SUNY system in New York.

 

You can do an awful lot nowadays before you even go outside with indoor hitting cages and pitching mounds. Hell, you can even do infield inside if you really have to. Being an alum, I know Whitewater has a fairly new huge fieldhouse.

Plus, every school in the north does a 10-day or so spring break trip south and plays doubleheaders just about all 10 days.

 

So that makes the CCIW...?

 

Fuckabuncha Mount Union.

The Evil Empire of D-3 Football.