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Post by libero3 on Apr 23, 2014 19:22:22 GMT -5
How did you say you didn't take shots at D3 first, when in the original post, you state matter of fact, "D3 is the worst".
And I would argue if you took the talent as a whole of the NAIA and compared it to the overall talent of D3 it would be much closer to being even.
Now you are correct the top teams, those who take full advantage of the NAIA "rules" and bring in the pros are head and shoulders above most D3's. Though there are still some D3s that could compete.
But if you are asking to compare the whole organization/division I don't know if I buy it. If D3 is by far the worst there shouldn't be anyone in NAIA losing to anyone outside of the top 3 in D3. Personally, I can not understand ever how ANY NAIA school loses to a D3 school, those players are being paid to be there. So obviously there is a reason more talented players than those that are being paid at the mid to low level NAIA teams are going D3. It would be interesting to hear why. Because I know if I was a coach/AD/Player I would be very disappointed if my team being paid to play, was loosing to those crappy D3 kids.
So to get back on topic, because as a whole D2 should blow D3 out of the water, I will go that IMO D2 as a whole is much deeper and better than the NAIA as a whole. We can pull teams out of each division and make individual arguments, but that was not the question. D2 is a far more competitive division across the board.
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Post by vbgator on May 1, 2014 3:27:07 GMT -5
I don't think Concordia had any pro players in either of their 2 years of existence and they took the NAIA National Championship in their first year. I think they only had one guy older than normal college age and they have a lot of guys who transferred from NCAA D1 schools or we're recruited by D1 schools but transferred to Concordia from California Community College state champ teams. Just because someone plays for a NAIA school doesn't mean they aren't D1 eligible or that they didn't turn down D1 offers. I know NAIA players who did but knew they had a much better chance of actually playing at an NAIA school rather than being a practice dummy and warming the bench for 4 years. Anyway, the priority for going to college is about getting an education and for some, a small school (many are also religious) with a 15:1 student:teacher ratio is a better learning environment than being among 40,000 students and suffering in dozens of 400 seat lecture halls at D1schools. Park is full of foreign pro players...who acted like cavemen when they won this year (watch the video) and it's the only reason they beat Concordia. Concordia also took a set off of USC this year. Although USC was resting a couple of starters, they were all D1 players.
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