[nky]

This totally proves my point. How do you get the chance to play college football w/o starting on your high school team....you pay the tuition at a D3 school...that's how.

Yes there are kids who love football and choose D3 b/c they want to continue playing the game and would rather go to a Centre or Hanover and get a great education than rather just be a student at UK. But the point is that this is not the majority of the D3 guys.

THERE WILL BE SEVERAL FROSH IN CENTRE's incoming class that did NOT start on their high school team.

Do you want to know how a kid gets recruited by a D3 school. In the few weeks after signing day, the FCS teams will come out and pick up the pieces of what D1 left behind. (they will already have a few kids that they knew didn't have d1 offers that they already had lined up). Then the D2's will come in and make their offers, and THEN the D3 coaches will show up at the high school in March/April and ask

"do you have anyone that may be interested in playing for us?"

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Maybe that's why Centre isn't a very good football team. In fact their conference as a whole is pretty weak. By pointing out a weak team in a weak conference is no reason to dismiss DIII football.
JUst look at some of the KY teams in the NAIA division You can say the same thing about them