(07-15-2017 09:25 AM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(07-15-2017 08:37 AM)bluesox Wrote:  Never heard of a lot of these schools. I would go d3 over d2 or naia. In d3 there are no scholarships to worry about and the academic standing of schools is better. Guess it depends on conference affiliations

It does in many ways, a great example of this is the D3 Northwest Conference. It is made up on small private schools in Oregon and Washington. Half of the membership has been together since 1926. The conference was part of the NAIA until 1996 when the conference moved to NCAA D3.

NAIA was not around until 1937. As it was, the D3 conference had a different name before 1926. The founding members of that conference were Idaho, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State and some members of you are in that conference. Other members also included Montana and College of Idaho. At the time of this conference? Idaho, Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State and Montana had a duel membership.