Me and my friends were discussing how hard it is to just make a D3 school to play football. We think that almost anyone can make a team. You have to have lots of talent to play but it seems anyone can make a team. A player on my high school team just was a Conferance honorable mention his senior year and wasn't all that good he didn't even start. He played for Grinnel.
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It's really easy, i only started a handful of games during high school and didnt start on varsity, but simpson/central/ wartburg all kept sending me stuff..
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In a lot of cases if you are an average HS athlete, really want to play past HS, and not picky you can find a school that will take you. I played HS football with a kid that probaly ran a 5.2 40 and he went to a small college and played WR. There are also good athletes at these schools as well, the talent just drops off fast.
Depends on the program. Most Iowa conference schools, the Wartburgs / Waldorfs / Coes / Simpsons of the world you have to be decent. They're filled with kids that were at least all-district and were either under-sized or just didn't want to ride the pine at a D1.
I got a letter from St Olaf ... so apparently ANYONE can be recruited by them.
I got a letter from St Olaf ... so apparently ANYONE can be recruited by them.
Most of these are dead-on. To my knowledge, no D3 schools cut, and they need lots of bodies for scout team. There was 150 guys on the team when I was at Wartburg, Maybe 40 sniffed the field on a Saturday. Its not uncommon for some top-tier teams to have close to 200 on the squad. When there is a good thing going, guys want to be a part of it.
To the Original Poster's question- Grinnell is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to D3 football. Up until very recently, I don't even think coaches were allowed off campus to recruit. They had to convince guys to play football once they enrolled. That, is NCAA football in its purest form.
To the Original Poster's question- Grinnell is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to D3 football. Up until very recently, I don't even think coaches were allowed off campus to recruit. They had to convince guys to play football once they enrolled. That, is NCAA football in its purest form.
Small midwest school near Sioux City. I'm not going to start naming names to protect the innocent, but we had a kid play maybe 10 minutes our senior year, then I heard tell of him starting in college.
I was more wondering which college. There are some very bad football teams out there.
Does this include the coaches going to area High Schools and meeting with possible recruits? I talked to some coaches at our High School back in 2002, but maybe that is considered recently though.
Agreed with most previous posts. The game play at your average D3 school is very slow just like a 2A or 3A high school. I am not ragging on that Class of school football, I played at an Class A school, but the game is definitely different between classes.
As far as the starters at D3 schools being D1 quality athletes that do not want to ride the pine, I totally disagree. If you have a chance to walk-on at ISU/Iowa or where ever, you think you would go to a D3 school just to get playing time. I do not think so.
As far as the starters at D3 schools being D1 quality athletes that do not want to ride the pine, I totally disagree. If you have a chance to walk-on at ISU/Iowa or where ever, you think you would go to a D3 school just to get playing time. I do not think so.
There are a few select athletes at D3 that have the tools to contibute at a D1, by no means are all the starters D1 quality athletes. I started for 3 years at 6'1 297. Because of my height, no chance to ever play at a D1, but I saw the testing numbers at ISU, and in the OL, we had guys that were lifting just as much and running 40's just as fast, but didn't have the height. It takes a very, VERY special athlete to play D1 football.
I know several kids that tried for a year or 2, sometimes 3 at a D1 but really wanted to just play so left for a smaller school.
CloneU- I should have been more clear, by recently for schools like Grinnell, Cornell, and Coe, I mean around the last 10 years, maybe just a little longer.
I am not joking when i tell you this.... I ran cross country all four years of high school and never played football... and i got a letter from wartburg encouraging me to try out for football... i never was recruited, but it just baffled me that i had never played a down of football and i received a letter telling me to come to school there and try out for football
That happens a lot. Everything is automated and pretty much anyone who is in the database gets a letter initially. Its all about numbers. Wouldn't surprise me if over a 1000 kids are recruited to start out with.
I always got a kick out of the hand written letter I got from the Luther baseball captains after my junior year-The first year I didn't go out for baseball. Evidently, somewhere down the line, I checked off on a college questionnaire that I was interested in baseball.
I've had two nephews play D3 football in Wisconsin, at UW - River Falls and UW - Eau Claire. The nephew at UW - EC was a two-time all-conference running back at the big HS level (Chippewa Falls High), tough as nails but small (5'8 - 170). He played special teams and part-time fullback at UW-EC. In short, I think D3 football talent is a little better than what the original poster is giving credit for....JMHO
If it makes you feel any better, I got an offer from M.I.T. Seriously. They had no idea what they were getting into. :wink:
