Comparing Collegiate Divisions

"The NCAA pays for all of the expenses for travel for teams in Division I, II and III for the post season. At the Division I level, containing costs is not really as big of an issue but at the Division III level it’s a very big issue."


This quote is from Chris Blake of businessinsider.com as he compares how division 1- division 3 schools obtain their funding and their level of difficulties. Like most of the college sports fans out there, we pay most of our attention for the big name, D1 sports and that naturally makes it a lot tougher for division 2 and 3 schools to compete in the market. The march madness championship accounts for about 90% of the NCAA's total revenue of $800 million, so it is easy to why division 1 is heavily favored. Few know that just as the march madness insanity begins, the division 2 men's and women's championship games are played, but literally get no attention whatsoever. But is this such a bad thing? Should the NCAA do anything to establish some kind of fairness in the world of athletics, even if it cuts into their profits?




Well the confident answer is no, the NCAA will never change any rules to give division 2 and 3 schools a fighting chance for some recognition. I don't really thing there is anything wrong with that, but then again it is the NCAA that is disguised as a nonprofit organization that really has a hold on college athletics, but that is another story.


Chris Blake Quotes Pat Coleman, the executive editor of D3sports.com as he summarizes the interest of the D1 sports and their fan loyalty:


“Division III has smaller schools so a school like Cabrini or Swarthmore doesn't have 40,000 students at it like Penn State or Michigan does. Your alumni base is smaller at a Division III school; it doesn't have the kind of massive regional identity the way people across a large swath of Pennsylvania might identify with Penn State or someone in Ohio would certainly identify with Ohio State. They don’t really identify with Franklin and Marshall or John Carol University or something quite the same way,”