Your must-read briefing on what's driving the day in NCAA Division III.
Friday, April 17, 2020
Strategic Value of Sports
D3Playbook APRIL 17, 2020 | written by STEVE ULRICH your must-read briefing on what's driving the day in NCAA Division III
Our goal is to keep you - the influencers in DIII athletics - apprised of what's happening around Division III - the games, polls, news, happenings, awards, calendar of events, and much more. We hope you enjoy d3Playbook and that you'll share this with your friends, colleagues and co-workers.
>> Good Friday Morning!Another week closer to the end of the virus.
>> Today's Word Count: 855. Not wasting your time. Smart, concise. An informative read that's just about 4 minutes.
>> Thanks for reading D3Playbook. We appreciate your kind words of support. Please recommend us to a friend or co-worker. Or share with your staff and bring them up-to-speed on what's happening in DIII.
Mr. Russell, the executive director of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, writes a letter in response to a call to eliminate collegiate tennis and other olympic sports, as all colleges face the financial challenges of the coronavirus.
>> Situational Awareness: "Address the true role of sports on college campuses and not simply the what if’s of a downward spiral of financial dominos, starting with a sad and unnecessary premise that schools must, or should, or may have to eliminate sports now."
>> Between The Lines: "Athletic directors and college presidents should actually make a pledge to avoid such cuts at this time and commit to structural reconfigurations of the entire athletic enterprise and not simply use these circumstances to make quick fixes while leaving the flawed fundamental business structure in place. Let me suggest that history will not be kind to those who might kill off Olympic sports on college campuses."
>> Reality Check: "Intercollegiate athletics have historically held a very important place in higher education. Let’s not simply reference DIII, let’s celebrate the spirit of DIII and that same spirit that lives on the DI campuses that host 26 or 32 sports, and the DI Athletic Directors who have been adding sports in recent years."
>> The Key Stat: "The suggestion that because the USTA doesn’t need college to field a small Olympic team is a reason to possibly cut over 600 Division I college tennis programs makes false equivalences to suggest unnecessary outcomes."
>> Of Note: "Be clear, college tennis is not simply an “American enterprise,” any more than music departments and engineering departments are simply for Americans within the higher education enterprise. Arguing that tennis should be cut as a major college sport because of the number of international players might be simple to do but, in my opinion, is an unwise course of action."
To our readers. Thank You. The response to our rivalry question was beyond our wildest expectations. So ... who did we miss?
The Across The Street Rivalries
Cabrini vs. Eastern
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps vs. Pomona-Pitzer
Coast Guard vs. Connecticut College
Not Across The Street Rivals
Albright vs. Alvernia
Aurora vs. Benedictine
Bluffton vs. Defiance
Central vs. Wartburg
Chicago vs. Washington U.
Clarkson vs. St. Lawrence
Fontbonne vs. Webster
Johns Hopkins vs. McDaniel
Moravian vs. Muhlenberg
Nazareth vs. St. John Fisher
Whitman vs. Whitworth
Wittenberg vs. Wooster
As a former Yalie ... we were taught early on that the rivalry is Yale-Harvard and that it is not in alphabetical order. Right Dick Quinn?
so ... which school gets your blood boiling? Let's keep it going.
3. #WatchD3
Our campaign to have past Division III athletics contests made available to those quarantined and looking for quality viewing continues.
We are thankful to all of you who have made your games available. A lot of games are not available. #WatchD3 is becoming a thing.
"Rebroadcast rights, or the ability for a network to show a game it originally aired, can be restrictive. Now we're starting to understand at the end of games exactly what 'without the expressed written consent of the league' really means," said David Carter, Southern California associate professor and sports business expert. "The lifeblood for these sports networks is live sports. So now, all the sudden, a league's library of old games has a lot more value."
Today's Feature
2020 Men's Basketball Conference Final
Johns Hopkins vs. Swarthmore
A top-10 showdown between the #1 Garnet and the #8 Blue Jays for the Centennial Conference championship. And the game was decided at the buzzer by the CC Player of the Year.
all we ask is that you add #WatchD3 as a hashtag when you post a video from a past game at your institution.
SPONSORED MESSAGE
Would you like to sponsor this newsletter? Would you like to advertise an open position in your department for a head coach or administrator? Contact d3playbook@gmail.com to get your job opening in front of more than 700 decision-makers in small-college athletics.
Each day, we'll provide a list of what we think is a fun fact about Division III sports. Hopefully, you'll find the walk down memory lane to be an interesting read.
Today's Feature 
No comments:
Post a Comment