[NEWARKCATHOLICFAN]

If so, who? and Where?

[goscots56]

Have a hard time trying to figure out what you're asking?

Div3 is kind of a joke when it comes to football. This SHOULD be for the guys that want to focus on academics, but love football and want to keep playing.

It ends up being a mix of those guys, and a bunch of donkeys that want to act like they got recruited to go to those schools.

[Football1]

Have a hard time trying to figure out what you're asking?

Div3 is kind of a joke when it comes to football. This SHOULD be for the guys that want to focus on academics, but love football and want to keep playing.

It ends up being a mix of those guys, and a bunch of donkeys that want to act like they got recruited to go to those schools.

Really? You must really enjoy that throne you sit on from which you cast stones at the thousands of young men every year who play NCAA D3 football. Can you open your narrow mind enough to considerthe real possibility that some of the players who go to D3 programs are very talented athletes who made a choice that will impact them for the next 40 years based on something bigger than the crowd size on Saturday? Likely not...

[BlueRaider4Life]

Football at ANY level is not a joke....I have been around elementary kids for the past 18 years and they LOVE to play the game. Any kid who has a desire to play at their next highest level should follow that dream. Ball till you fall and live out your dreams.....People who throw off on others are the JOKE!!!!

[NEWARKCATHOLICFAN]

Was asking if any of the high school seniors from last season are going on to play college football at the D-3 level.

[HawksRule]

Last year I had D3 school recruiting me hard after my senior season. The thing about D3 is they do not offer scholarships and they are usually private colleges which make them expensive. For example the school that recruited me was a 28,000 dollar school that had a little football field out in a flat area. A friend of mine from high school that I played with is currently playing D3 football. Cody Meade from Pike Central is playing at Mt Saint Joseph.

[Real Badman]

Naia > d3

[NEWARKCATHOLICFAN]

Cody Meade was fun to watch.
Thanks to a friend I usually get most of the games on TV from the Pike County area.

[64black&gold]

Div III is better football than you think. Knew a kid who spent 4 years on Titans practice squad.

[nky]

NCAA DIII is pretty good football. I'd take it over NAIA football anyday of the week

[LeeCoUKFan]

Have a hard time trying to figure out what you're asking?

Div3 is kind of a joke when it comes to football. This SHOULD be for the guys that want to focus on academics, but love football and want to keep playing.

It ends up being a mix of those guys, and a bunch of donkeys that want to act like they got recruited to go to those schools.

Division III has pretty good competition. Players have their reasons for playing DIII, they may have not been heavily recruited out of high school, may have gotten injured in their senior season and teams stopped recruiting them, or they may have just started playing football late in high school and had not played long enough to be recruited by better schools.

There are currently 6 active NFL players that played NCAA Division III football!

[goscots56]

Before you guys blow up, show up at the first day of fall practice @ a Div3 college in the south.

Half of the freshman that they talk into coming will have not even been key contributors on their high school team, and I promise there will be several that did not even start on their high school team.

Yes....football is football and alot of those guys are out there for the love of the game. But alot of them make a joke out of it by just wanting to say they play college football.

Division3 football is not college football as most of us think about it. It's high school football with players that are just 4 years older.

[goscots56]

Division III has pretty good competition. Players have their reasons for playing DIII, they may have not been heavily recruited out of high school, may have gotten injured in their senior season and teams stopped recruiting them, or they may have just started playing football late in high school and had not played long enough to be recruited by better schools.

There are currently 6 active NFL players that played NCAA Division III football!

6 NFL players....okay....what's the point? There are also millionaires in this country that dropped out of high school. Does that handful of guys mean that it is the prefered way to do it?

There are currently 199 D3 football teams, that's about 20,000 players. I don't see how having 6 NFL caliber players make the entire scale of D3 great football.

[LClion4life]

Before you guys blow up, show up at the first day of fall practice @ a Div3 college in the south.

Half of the freshman that they talk into coming will have not even been key contributors on their high school team, and I promise there will be several that did not even start on their high school team.

Yes....football is football and alot of those guys are out there for the love of the game. But alot of them make a joke out of it by just wanting to say they play college football.

Division3 football is not college football as most of us think about it. It's high school football with players that are just 4 years older.

This is just not a smart post. How do you even get the opportunity to play college football if you weren't even a starter on your high school team? Much less a contributor. There are high school players in this state that are going to go on and play D3 football. Tell them that they weren't a contributor to their high school team.

[goscots56]

This is just not a smart post. How do you even get the opportunity to play college football if you weren't even a starter on your high school team? Much less a contributor. There are high school players in this state that are going to go on and play D3 football. Tell them that they weren't a contributor to their high school team.

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?"

They don't know the kids by name, they don't care to watch any film. They don't ask his 40 time or how much he benches or squats, they ask for a transcript and then give them a free application. They go soely on the word of the HS coach and they take (recruit) what they can get.

Are there some GOOD QUALITY guys going on to play D3 football.....yes....but this is not the majority. They would be much better suited walking on at a FCS (D1AA) program or even D2.

[LeeCoUKFan]

Before you guys blow up, show up at the first day of fall practice @ a Div3 college in the south.

Half of the freshman that they talk into coming will have not even been key contributors on their high school team, and I promise there will be several that did not even start on their high school team.

Yes....football is football and alot of those guys are out there for the love of the game. But alot of them make a joke out of it by just wanting to say they play college football.

Division3 football is not college football as most of us think about it. It's high school football with players that are just 4 years older.

Well I'm not sure why D3 football would be different in the south but I can say that it is completely different in the north when it comes to D3 football.

I went to a high school in Massachusetts for my sophmore-senior years and I played football all three years. Our QB was getting offers from D1 schools like Syracuse, UMass, UNH, and Maine but he chose to go to Bowdoin which just so happens to be a Division 3 school. We also had an OL and LB that were getting D1 and D2 offers and they both decided to go to Norwich which also is a Division 3 school. We had a couple other players that also went on to play at Division 3 school but I can assure they were all starters on the team for 2 or 3 years and our QB and RB got playing time and started a couple games as freshman.

[LeeCoUKFan]

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?"

They don't know the kids by name, they don't care to watch any film. They don't ask his 40 time or how much he benches or squats, they ask for a transcript and then give them a free application. They go soely on the word of the HS coach and they take (recruit) what they can get.

Are there some GOOD QUALITY guys going on to play D3 football.....yes....but this is not the majority. They would be much better suited walking on at a FCS (D1AA) program or even D2.

Again I have no idea what schools you are talking about because I went to Bridgewater State in Massachusetts which is a Division 3 school and they won't even look at you unless you have a highlight film that is sent to them from your high school head coach!

[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

[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?"

They don't know the kids by name, they don't care to watch any film. They don't ask his 40 time or how much he benches or squats, they ask for a transcript and then give them a free application. They go soely on the word of the HS coach and they take (recruit) what they can get.

Are there some GOOD QUALITY guys going on to play D3 football.....yes....but this is not the majority. They would be much better suited walking on at a FCS (D1AA) program or even D2.

Also starting on a high school team really is a hard indication of how good a player is. It means different things for different schools. I know kids who played at high power Cincinnati schools who weren't starters and played college football. They would have started on lesser school's team.
Check out Matt Cassel's career at USC

[cavery59]

I dont thank D3 football is better than NAIA football. Because most NAIA schools can beat the best D2 schools. And the lower end of FCS schools.

[cavery59]

Really the only Bad NAIA school in football in kentucky is ky.christian.

[HawksRule]

Again I have no idea what schools you are talking about because I went to Bridgewater State in Massachusetts which is a Division 3 school and they won't even look at you unless you have a highlight film that is sent to them from your high school head coach!

I have to agree with you on this. When Greenville first contacted me they already knew my height, weight, forty, and position. The next thing he wanted was film then after that things started getting serious.

[LClion4life]

Really the only Bad NAIA school in football in kentucky is ky.christian.

And that's a brand new program. They could grow to be like the other solid NAIA programs in Kentucky.

[Real Badman]

And that's a brand new program. They could grow to be like the other solid NAIA programs in Kentucky.

Very much agreed. Kentucky Christian, Lindsey Wilson, and Pikeville will be with the big names of the MSC before too long if they can stay consistent.

[nky]

I dont thank D3 football is better than NAIA football. Because most NAIA schools can beat the best D2 schools. And the lower end of FCS schools.

Really? So Georgetown can beat EKU? or Morehead?
Which one of these teams can any NAIA team beat (top 10 teams in each region of DII last year)
See next post

[nky]

1. Kutztown				1.	Albany State
2.	Mercyhurst				2.	Delta State
3.	California				3.	Valdosta State
4.	Shepherd				4.	Wingate
5.	Shaw				5.	Morehouse
6.	Bloomsburg				6.	North Alabama
7.	West Virginia Wesleyan				7.	Fort Valley State
8.	West Liberty				8.	Henderson State
9.	Saint Augustine's				9.	Lenoir-Ryne
10.	Winston-Salem State				10.	Carson-Newman
	Super Regional 3					Super Regional 4
	Minnesota Duluth					Abilene Christian
	Augustana					Texas A&M-Kingsville
	Grand Valley State					Northwest Missouri
	St. Cloud State					Central Missouri
	Hillsdale					West Texas A&M
	Michigan Tech					Missouri Western
	Colorado Mines					Midwestern State
	Nebraska-Kearney					Central Washington
	Wayne State (Mi)					Washburn
	Colorado State-Pueblo					Humboldt State

[cavery59]

EKU is not a lower FCS school !!!!!!!!!!!

[nky]

EKU is not a lower FCS school !!!!!!!!!!!

They're an also ran in the OVC. The conference Champ lost in the first round of the play offs this year

[LeeCoUKFan]

I have to agree with you on this. When Greenville first contacted me they already knew my height, weight, forty, and position. The next thing he wanted was film then after that things started getting serious.

Yeah, I only have experience with DIII teams from the New England area and it my be a different culture up there when it comes to football but DIII coaches will actively scout during the high school football season and when they contact you they know more about you than what you would expect.

[LeeCoUKFan]

Kentucky has an Elite Division III football team in the Thomas More Saints who over the past 2 seasons have gone 22-2 and 13-0 in their conference!