Are they moving to D1 for baseball?
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Almost did a coffee spit-take on that one. Where did you hear that? I'm gonna sat 99% "No", at least for the foreseeable future. NCAA schools can't pick and choose divisions by sport anymore, it's all or nothing. The current schools that do that are grandfathered.
Someone told me that they might go D1. I assumed it was just a rumor.
D1 baseball prohibits any team with colors that ugly from participation. 
The word locally is that yes they are planning to move D1. I have no connection to Rowan and would never allow one but it is out there.
Thanks.
From what I've heard, yes. But it is a process that takes time and involves enrollment numbers, facilities and finding a conference that will take them. Heard it will be for all sports with football being FCS. Still a few years away at least.
cabbagedad posted:D1 baseball prohibits any team with colors that ugly from participation.
Do you remember what Steve Garvey said when he put on his Padres uniform for the first time in spring training?
Look! I’m a taco!
It was right up there when asked to compare Yuma AZ to Vero Beach FL.
Lots of beach. Just no ocean.
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Hahaha... how can a group of MLB marketing experts sit in a room and say "yeah, let's go with these colors!! This is the best possible combination" ??
Of course, I have extensive experience in these things... I'm a Browns fan. 
Francis ... If you’re looking into the future programs that go D3 to D1 either get blown off the field for 50+ games the first few years or they load up with JuCo players.
cabbagedad posted:Hahaha... how can a group of MLB marketing experts sit in a room and say "yeah, let's go with these colors!! This is the best possible combination" ??
Of course, I have extensive experience in these things... I'm a Browns fan.
Too bad the team wasn’t founded by Paul Green or Paul Black.
RJM posted:Francis ... If you’re looking into the future programs that go D3 to D1 either get blown off the field for 50+ games the first few years or they load up with JuCo players.
Like Rutgers?
Francis7 posted:RJM posted:Francis ... If you’re looking into the future programs that go D3 to D1 either get blown off the field for 50+ games the first few years or they load up with JuCo players.
Like Rutgers?
I'm going to assume thats a bad joke. Not even remotely similar and a little strange considering you were asking about how to contact college coaches earlier and you're already putting Big 10 schools beneath you.
It was a question, not a joke. I thought Rutgers recently became a D1. To be honest, I don't follow it close enough to know the why, when and how it went. That's why I asked.
NJIT might be a better example. They transitioned from D3 to D2 from 1998-99, then D2 to D1 from 2006-10. In any case, I'd bet my house that Rowan won't transition to D1 before your son graduates college.
Edit: Rutgers main campus has been D1 for like forever.
Francis7 posted:It was a question, not a joke. I thought Rutgers recently became a D1. To be honest, I don't follow it close enough to know the why, when and how it went. That's why I asked.
Rutgers recently switched conferences. The Big East imploded. Rutgers became part of the AAC with some other former Big East teams and some new teams. When the Big Ten expanded their marketing reach reach Rutgers joined the Big Ten along with Maryland. Conferences used to be about geography. Now they’re about television and marketing reach.
Francis7 posted:It was a question, not a joke. I thought Rutgers recently became a D1. To be honest, I don't follow it close enough to know the why, when and how it went. That's why I asked.
They're in a P5 conference (Big 10). They just recently moved to the Big 10 from the Big East/AAC, which is probably what you're thinking of in terms of the move. Middle of the pack Big 10 team this year.
Apologize for the attack, but I thought you were familiar and making a joke. Having never been to a game I always thought it was bad baseball as well, but after a friend of mine's kid starting playing there I starting going to games and it is far from it.
RJM posted:Conferences used to be about geography. Now they’re about television and marketing reach.
They made that very clear when they started hosting the Big 10 Basketball tournament at MSG, even though the majority of that conference is based out of the midwest.
To their credit though, they have split the conference up into East/West to at least make it seem like it's geography based.
This has been floating around since as far back as 2014, if not longer.
MidAtlanticDad posted:NJIT might be a better example. They transitioned from D3 to D2 from 1998-99, then D2 to D1 from 2006-10. In any case, I'd bet my house that Rowan won't transition to D1 before your son graduates college.
Edit: Rutgers main campus has been D1 for like forever.
The Stony Brook Patriots participated at the Division III level until 1995, when they moved up to Division II with the ultimate goal of soon reaching Division I. On June 3, 1997, President Shirley Kenny announced that the Seawolves' entire athletics program would play at the Division I level beginning during the 1999–00 season.
Francis7 posted:It was a question, not a joke. I thought Rutgers recently became a D1. To be honest, I don't follow it close enough to know the why, when and how it went. That's why I asked.
RJM posted:Francis ... If you’re looking into the future programs that go D3 to D1 either get blown off the field for 50+ games the first few years or they load up with JuCo players.
RJM, seems in the past there has been a gradual transition strategy, but to your point Abilene Christian transition from D2 -> D1 in 2014
Year - # of jucos, conference rrec, overall record
2016- 12 , (8-21), (16-37)
2017 - 6, (3-27), (13-43)
2018 - 22, (5-25), (21-33)
2019 - 24, (10-14), (23-23)
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I used to cheer for Rutgers, but now the Pirates...luckily my pain tolerance is high.
Merrimack is moving to D1 from D2 in 2023-2024. It's a 4 year process.
