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Frequently Asked Questions: General
| 1. | Who runs this site? |
| Posted On Jan 31, 2007 at 07:55 PM |
D3baseball.com is run by Jim Dixon, who developed the Division III Baseball Online site that was hosted by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference in recent years. The site is operated by D3sports.com publisher Pat Coleman, who runs D3hoops.com and D3football.com. |
| Posted by Pat Coleman info@d3hoops.com |
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| 2. | The Quick Facts info on our school is incomplete. Who do I contact? |
| Posted On Feb 11, 2007 at 01:51 PM |
Send an e-mail to info@d3baseball.com. If you're not an SID or coach, please send us a link where the information you're sending can be confirmed. We have compiled this data using the information available on each team's Web site. If seating capacity for a team's stadium was not listed, we estimated using photos, when available. |
| Posted by Pat Coleman pat@d3baseball.com |
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| 3. | There are a lot of files and stories still on the old site. Will they be brought over? |
| Posted On Feb 12, 2007 at 03:24 AM |
Yes, the archival information from Division III Baseball Online will be posted on D3baseball.com. |
| Posted by Pat Coleman pat@d3baseball.com |
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| 4. | Will you be broadcasting games? |
| Posted On Feb 12, 2007 at 03:25 AM |
We hope to broadcast live audio of Division III baseball games in 2007, yes. |
| Posted by Pat Coleman pat@d3baseball.com |
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| 5. | How long has this site been around? |
| Posted On Feb 12, 2007 at 03:44 AM |
Division III Baseball Online has been on the Internet since the mid-1990s. It became part of the D3sports.com family and took the name D3baseball.com on Feb. 12, 2007. |
| Posted by Pat Coleman pat@d3baseball.com |
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| 6. | What is a provisional member of Division III? |
| Posted On Feb 12, 2007 at 03:45 AM |
New schools entering Division III must go through a provisional period, during which the NCAA ensures the school is in compliance with Division III rules. Typically the process is four years for schools entering from Division II or from another organization, such as the NAIA. In the fifth year, a school is eligible for the NCAA Tournament. Currently there is a waiting list to begin the Division III provisional process. A handful of institutions per school year are allowed to enter the pipeline. |
| Posted by Pat Coleman pat@d3baseball.com |
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| 7. | Is redshirting legal in Division III? |
| Posted On Feb 12, 2007 at 03:46 AM |
You are not permitted to redshirt in Division III. Redshirting is the practice of having a player attend and participate in practices but not play in any games, preserving a year of eligibility. Medical redshirting is still permitted at the Division III level. The general guideline is that you must have played one-third of the scheduled games or less in order to be eligible. If you suffer a season-ending injury in that time-frame and can document it, your conference (or athletic director, if an independent) can file paperwork with the NCAA on your behalf to restore a season of eligibility. So-called "routine" redshirting is still permitted at other levels and to our understanding those redshirts are recognized by Division III. (You will want to confirm with your school's compliance officer if you are transferring in.) That is, if you redshirted outside of Division III and then transferred to a D-III school, you would not be forced to give up that year of eligibility. (To redshirt in this manner you may not appear in any games whatsoever.) Conferences are free to not recognize these redshirts, and in fact, the MIAC has not as long as we've been covering D-III. And of course, anyone who had a routine redshirt year at a Division III school before Aug. 1, 2004, has that redshirt grandfathered in. |
| Posted by Pat Coleman pat@d3baseball.com |
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| 8. | When I load up a page with a survey on it, I can't vote and the results are already displayed. Why is that? |
| Posted On Feb 12, 2007 at 03:57 AM |
There are two possibilities -- either you already voted in this survey, or you share an IP address with other people. This can happen on some college campuses, or with large online services like AOL (if you use the built-in AOL browser, which you shouldn't). |
| Posted by Pat Coleman pat@d3baseball.com |