California SB-206

California has been in the sports news of late due to SB-206, which is a bill that has passed the state’s senate that would allow student-athletes to be compensated for their name, image or likeness. It would therefore be illegal for an organization overseeing the athletes (e.g., the NCAA) to prevent them from playing based……

Roster Analysis – Part 2

This is the second go-around where I try to find the 2019 rosters for the West Region teams and see if there are any unexpected losses other than graduating seniors. I also take a look to see what holes the teams have going into the season and who might be in position to fill them.……

Regional Realignment with Competitive Balance

With the recent news from the NCAA regarding the need to add competitive balance into their DIII realignment efforts, I decided to take a stab at the impossible. My initial feeling was that with the West and the South Regions basically being immovable islands that there wasn’t enough we could do in the northeast to……

Belhaven Full DIII Member

I tweeted this out early but this accomplishment really deserves a post, too. Belhaven University has successfully navigated through their reclassification period and have been approved by the NCAA Division III Membership Committee for full, active NCAA membership beginning this fall. This means that Belhaven is now in the championship hunt as they are eligible……

NCAA News on Realignment & AQs

One of my soapboxes this summer has been the proposal to increase DIII regions from 8 to 10, which when based on geography meant that the larger northeast regions would be split up but in the process gain even more advantages. You can read what I had on this, here. Since that time, there was……

Looking Back and Forward with our New DIII Schools

Steven Wright is probably a comedian that most people don’t remember but he had a joke that went, “Change is inevitable…except from vending machines.” Well, the West Region is certainly no vending machine as we’ve seen three new DIII programs added in the last few years and this upcoming season we will get a fourth.……

The Texas Shootout!

Nothing says Texas like a good old fashion shootout. Heck, they happen on my block every couple of weeks and we love celebrating the winners and watching the kids shove the loser down the sewer drain. I’ve heard some blocks have incorporated the loser into a communal compost heap so the circle of life and……

Summer Projects

Over on the left side, I’ve added a link called “NCAA Tournament Brackets”. This is my summer project and consists of recreating all of the NCAA Tournament brackets. If you go to the NCAA site that has the DIII Tournament results you’ll notice that only 4 brackets are preserved, which seems like a shame to……

LETU Names Coach

LeTourneau has completed their search for their new coach replacing Ashley Tiernan who stepped down earlier this year. In finding their coach, LeTourneau has stayed within the ASC to pluck Coach Mallory Matthews. Coach Matthews was an assistant coach at UT-Tyler for the past two years after graduating from ETBU with all kinds of volleyball……

Roster Analysis – Part 1

When we look at statistics loss due to graduation to gauge the strength of a team going into the next season we assume that every other player is coming back. Often, and frankly most of the time, this is not the case. So, I like to look at the new rosters when they get published……