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#10: The DIII Presidents Council has passed emergency legislation to remove the year of residence requirement for transferring student-athletes. The membership will have an opportunity to discuss this change at the 2025 NCAA Convention before ratifying the change. Juniata President Jim Troha will continue to serve as chair for another year, with Albertus Magnus President Marc Camille to serve as vice chair. The Presidents Council also approved the budget for FY25 and FY26, which include an additional $3.5M for championship expansion, per diem and officiating increases and a joint Men’s Basketball championship; $3.5M for offsetting livestreaming costs for campuses, creating a new national platform for championship live streams, bracket flexibility, and more; and $438,500 for enrichment fund initiatives. Troha: “Today the council approved the division's two-year budget that provides championship enhancements, additional professional development for athletics trainers, mental health support and branding enhancements. We believe these enhancements will assist institutions and conferences as they continue to address budget constraints.” Also of note, the group discussed permitting betting on professional sports and will reexamine the topic at its next meeting in October. (link)
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#9: York (NY) celebrates the opening of its new soccer and track & field complex with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Take a look. (link)
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#8: D3 Datacast’s Matt and Zac Snyder dive deep on the new NPI, how the formula works, initial dial settings and much more. As coaches or administrators may work to see how games or teams on the schedule may impact their NPI or which wins stay to count into their NPI, as a reminder, each game produces its own game NPI, with a team’s NPI to be the sum of weighted NPI games divided by net games played. Further, in general, the calculation will drop wins that lower your NPI and losses that raise your NPI. Matt Snyder notes it can get complicated “because of this fact, every team’s NPI output is an input into every other team, every other opponent’s NPI calculation … so this is an iterative formula. You have to run the numbers and then see how those numbers change and then take the NPI output and you put it back in for all of these ONPI inputs because that’s your strength of schedule is what your team’s rating is and then you have to run the data again.” Using their work, the Snyders note there would be three Men’s Basketball selection differences in each of the last three seasons. Asked if coaches should consider scheduling differently, Matt Snyder says no. “The little bit longer answer is yes you can consider making some different scheduling choices, but I think the longer answer is no, you should really be mostly scheduling the same as you were. As we've seen, playing good games helps you. You get the quality win bonus. You get those big numbers on your resume. You still want to be playing strong teams. … This new system does provide a pathway for teams that under the old system had lower strengths of schedule to get into pool C consideration. Now I think though that mostly manifests in the way that your conference schedule played out or does play out. Maybe you have some weaker teams who aren't really competitive and dragged your whole SOS down, I think you're still going to need to look outside of conference to get those strong games. But maybe similar to the old system, if you play in a really strong conference, to get into the tournament, you maybe don't have to go out of conference all that much, but it depends on where you want to be.” Zac Snyder adds: “I think it frees up coaches to not have to worry about all those arbitrary lines across the regions and whether or not they’re going to get as much credit as they actually deserve for a win.” Tons more. (link)
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#7: The CCC has rebranded to the Conference of New England and rolls out its new visual identity, with the help of SKYE. (link); Commissioner Patrick Colbert sat down with The Adddrop Podcast’s Terrance Biggs to discuss the name change and says the idea of a new name actually began on his first day with one of the league’s presidents. “Now, I know that a lot of folks out there in our region certainly can combat that and say that New England's in almost every conference name in our region and that's correct; however, no conference really emphasizes that in their name and we wanted to do that. We wanted to show that the brand of New England, the region that our coaches are recruiting to, the region that our institutions are recruiting students to, is one of the best, if not the best, in our division from a number of categories, from academic prestige to competitive prestige to just the amount of institutions we have in our region, that captures so many different demographics from across our country and a lot are in our conference. We felt like our names should speak to some of that. […] There's not that many conference names out there that aren't already taken and with the idea of being unique, with the idea of leading with conference of versus putting conference at the back end of our name was something we felt hasn't really been done in our division, and even nationally, amongst Divisions I, II and III, for the most part, felt like that would help us stand out a little bit more.” More. (link)
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#6: Bard promotes Assoc. AD/SWA Stefanie Carrington to become its next AD following the departure of AD David Lindholm who is now a Senior Assoc. AD at Williams. The Raptors will also promote Baseball HC/Asst. AD Andy Salvatore to Assoc. AD. VP for Student Affairs Dumaine Williams: “This is an exciting time for Bard Athletics and we are very lucky to have Stefanie and Andy leading the department as we head into the new academic year. Stefanie has been a dedicated and trusted administrator at Bard for the last few years and I look forward to her leadership as the new Athletic Director with support from Andy, who brings such a wealth of institutional knowledge and experience to his new role.” (link)
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#5: The NPI weights have been released for all team sports, starting in 2024-25. (link) |
#4: Elms selects Asst. AD/former Men’s Basketball HC Rob Southall as its new AD. (link); EC has hired Nebraska Wesleyan Men’s Basketball AC Chris Piscioneri to succeed Southall in leading the Blazers. (link)
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#3: Goucher AD Andrew Wu will depart to become the Interim AD at Maryville, following the resignation of AD Sara Quatrocky. MC President Bryan Coker on what the Scots will look for in their next AD: “Within the next few weeks, we are launching a comprehensive national search for a permanent Athletic Director. We are seeking an individual who fully embraces the NCAA Division III philosophy of athletics as an integral part of students' overall educational experiences, and who can build upon the positive trajectory that the athletics program has experienced in recent years, including the impending transition to the Southern Athletic Association (SAA).” (link)
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#2: Wilmington selects Wittenberg Men’s Basketball HC Matt Croci as its new AD. President Corey Cockerill: “Matt is a charismatic and collaborative leader with a long history of success within D-III athletics. His leadership will undoubtedly inspire our student-athletes and bring both support and new opportunities to our Quaker athletic programs.” (link)
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#1: Maryville AD Sara Quatrocky is no longer leading the Scots after four years in the chair. (link)
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