NCAA Transfer Portal "quirk"

Well, this is interesting. Dallas Baptist is a D1 baseball program who just won 34 games this season.  Beat a bunch of ranked teams along the way. From 2014 to 2019, they won AT LEAST 40 games each season. Admittedly, I don't know much of anything about them (just looked all this up), but clearly they're no bottom feeder D1 program. Far from it, in fact. So the question is why? Why are portal kids from there only getting inquiries from D2 and D3 programs? Is it because times are really tough and there is so much talent at all levels right now that going from D1 Dallas Baptist to D2 or D3 is simply a product of the current environment? Because what's the alternative? That D1 coaches aren't actually aware that Dallas Baptist is a D1?  Times being tough just sucks, but everyone is dealing with it right now. But D1 coaches that aren't aware and educated enough to know of Dallas Baptist? Can that really be a possibility? If so, that is super scary. In my mind, this "quirk" should be a total non-issue for any D1 coach with a brain, right?

My thought with DBU is that D1 coaches are only looking at other D1 players in the portal..so if DBU players are listed as D2 they could very well not even be seen by other D1 coaches...it would not seem odd to any D1 coach that there are no DBU players in the portal...I am guessing the portal can be filtered by division for the coaches looking...

I think that Rick did a super job of explaining about the "quirk".

Thank you Rick!

I am sure that, coaches from the Midwest that are familiar with the Missouri Valley Conference know that DBU is in a D2 that plays in a D1 conference. I wouldn't necessarily think that those from other regions might be familiar and I will assume a few folks here wouldn't know that either.

@TPM posted:

I am sure that, coaches from the Midwest that are familiar with the Missouri Valley Conference know that DBU is in a D2 that plays in a D1 conference. I wouldn't necessarily think that those from other regions might be familiar and I will assume a few folks here wouldn't know that either.

Granted, I am a nobody and there may be people here that aren't familiar with DBU like myself, but check this out. Number 5 in wins over the last 7 years? I think it's fair to question how knowledgeable some of these D1 coaches are. So maybe a coach filtered D2 out of their spreadsheet. But I'd think any D1 coach worth his salt would find it conspicuously odd that DBU players are never on their spreadsheet.  We all know how small the college baseball coaching world is, right?  Everyone talks to everyone.  So I really struggle understanding how a coach could miss on DBU due to spreadsheet filtering.

TOP 10 PROGRAMS BY WINS SINCE 2015
1. Florida (293)
2. Louisville (287)
3. Vanderbilt (286)
4. LSU (279)
5. DBU (270)
6. TCU (269)
6. Texas Tech (269)
8. Arkansas (266)
9. Oregon State (263)
9. Southern Miss (263)
9. Texas A&M (263)