D3>d2
D3>d2
The only way D3 is clearly better than D2 is if you are at a WIAC school, the depth in the wisconsin system is crazy, but outside of that, the statement is not completely true...
D3 > The Oregon Project
Better in what way? Obviously you didnt compare the two ncaa track championship meets last year. D3 is like jr high
I believe the OP is stating that D3>D2 in every way. Not just considering performance.
table wrote:
I believe the OP is stating that D3>D2 in every way. Not just considering performance.
I believe OP is doing something called trolling. Trolling refers to any Internet user behavior that is meant to intentionally anger or frustrate someone else in order to provoke a response.
original BIGTEX wrote:
Better in what way? Obviously you didnt compare the two ncaa track championship meets last year. D3 is like jr high
How many junior high kids have you heard of who can run mid to low 14s for the 5000, in the 3:40s for the 1500, or in the 1:50s for the 800?
Saywhat? wrote:
original BIGTEX wrote:Better in what way? Obviously you didnt compare the two ncaa track championship meets last year. D3 is like jr high
How many junior high kids have you heard of who can run mid to low 14s for the 5000, in the 3:40s for the 1500, or in the 1:50s for the 800?
Probably the same number that are in D3. To be fair I'm assuming the guy meant Kenyan junior high.
Face facts - DIII is about as competitive as a 2nd tier DI conference.
DII is about as competitive as a top tier DI conference.
D2 is for people who weren't smart enough academically to get into D1 schools but are fast enough to get a scholarship. Typically these are foreigners who see the name American International College and think it is America's official international college.
D3 has people who are fast enough to run D1, but are too smart to go to a D1 school (see NESCAC, MIT). There are also slow people as well.
In terms of depth D2 and D3 are not far off. Here is a comparison of the 1st, 25th, 50th, 100th and 200th best performances in D2 and D3 in the 1500 and 5000:
D2
1500: 3:42.78, 3:50.85, 3:53.58, 3:56.96, 4:01.10
5000: 13:44.44, 14:25.64, 14:45.41, 14:54.08,15:15.80
D3
1500: 3:46.66, 3:51.89, 3:54.26, 3:57.50, 4:00.63
5000: 14:12.40, 14:34.34, 14:46.10, 14:55.56, 15:13.41
Medford Maniacs wrote:
D3 has people who are fast enough to run D1, but are too smart to go to a D1 school (see NESCAC, MIT). There are also slow people as well.
LMAO. Because Stanford and the Ivy League schools are D3.
d3 > tebow
too smart for D3 wrote:
Medford Maniacs wrote:D3 has people who are fast enough to run D1, but are too smart to go to a D1 school (see NESCAC, MIT). There are also slow people as well.
LMAO. Because Stanford and the Ivy League schools are D3.
There are D1 schools with excellent academics and there are D3 schools with excellent academics (you left out the UAA, which is better than NESCAC academically). There are no D2 schools with excellent academics.
Are you kidding me? Ever heard of Colorado School of Mines? Academically that place is no joke and they were second at the D2 xc champs.
DII is almost 50% public and 50% private schools. It is the most diverse division by far. The talent level runs the full gamut depending on the year.
This past season at the USATF Outdoor Track Championships the D2 RMAC alone had seven men competing from 800m - 10,000m who are current or graduated in the past three seasons. And they were all AMERICANS obviously to be in that meet so you can't use the "foreign" argument.
The entire D3 didn't have seven people in the USATF Championships. Heck how many D1 conferences had seven men in the USATF meet?
The one problem with D3 is those babies have to run at baby nationals.
D2 has mines.
How many of the following schools are D3?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/12-colleges-job-payoff-harvard/story?id=17273504
table wrote:
D2 has mines.
How many of the following schools are D3?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/12-colleges-job-payoff-harvard/story?id=17273504
Isn't it fun when people who went to non-prestigious schools invent arbitrary criteria that will make their schools look better on a ranking list so that they can feel good about themselves? I'd like to see those salaries 10-20 years out. I bet a lot more students from schools that are actually prestigious either go to grad school or take a low paying job with the potential for very, very big increases later down the road.