Blanket Waivers

Division III student-athletes will not be charged for participating in the 2020-21 season if their school is unable to play more than half of the maximum dates/contests. For volleyball, this number is 22. This means it’s quite likely that even if a school plays a “full” slate of matches this season they still might have……

Baseball & What it Tells Us

Man, I love baseball. It was my favorite sport growing up. My first sports memory is Pete Rose taking out Bud Harrelson back in 1973. I’ve hated Rose ever since and no he does not belong in the Hall of Fame. I was living in Virginia at the time and the Mets were now my……

Colleges Canceling Volleyball Page

A sign of the times… I’ve created a page to the left side (if you are on a computer) or the pull-down (if you are not) that will attempt to track the DIII institutions that have cancelled the 2020 volleyball season. Please post a comment or email if I’m missing a school or (I suspect……

CMS Cancels 2020 Volleyball Season

The hits just keep on coming as today Claremont McKenna College (the ‘C’ in CMS) has announced they are cancelling the fall volleyball season. CMS is a perennial Top 10 team with a national championship under their belt just a few years ago. This is certainly a big blow to the entire volleyball season when……

Louisiana College to Leave DIII

Louisiana College announced today that they have formally applied for admission to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Their goal is to make this transition starting in 2021. The press release indicates that after a year of analyzing the move the Board of Trustees decided on this course of action based on five points;……

First Podcast of the Year

I try not to pollute my main page with podcast information. You can find the podcast link on the left for those on computers or in the pull-down for other devices. Since this is the first podcast I’ve done this year I thought I would break my rule and mention it. Give it a listen……

JWU Denver Ends all Athletic Programs

As reported Thursday, JWU Denver will be closing its doors in 2021. In a press release today, the decision was also made to end all athletic programs. I wondered on Thursday if they would continue playing for this last year but it just didn’t make much sense. Today’s announcement confirms that thought. The press release……

Realignment Update

Yesterday, the NCAA announced that they have approved how regional rankings will work in the new realignment. In summary, they are going with a 20% rule, which means that for the West Region (or is that the new X Region?) we’ll still be doing 8 teams (out of the anticipated 39). I’ve written extensively on……

JWU Denver Closing

More sad news as the Providence Journal has a story out that Johnson & Wales will be closing their North Miami and Denver campuses in 2021. This obviously means that this will be the last volleyball season for JWU (Denver). JWU (Denver) moved from NAIA to DIII in 2018 and was promptly admitted into the……

NCAA Mock Championship Selection Presentation

A year or so ago I had a couple of coaches told me about a presentation that Jan Gentry (NCAA Associate Directory of Championships and Alliances) gave at the convention that dealt with how teams are selected for the NCAA championships. I never got the coaches to send me a link to the presentation but……