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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3165200, member: 1526"] If you're suggesting that some D-III schools rely only on the luck of the draw, with 100 percent of their players trying out for the team, then you'd have a point, but I think most if not all schools recruit players to some extent. Maybe some schools at that level don't have the resources to recruit enough players, but the commitment of the schools to their athletic programs will dictate how successful they will be. If you're solely relying on the right 20-30 players randomly showing up, you're not likely to have much success. Saint Joseph has the tiniest of tiny male D-III enrollments of any college in the country, yet they thought outside the box, hired Calhoun, he recruited, and took a brand new program to within one win of making the NCAA tournament. That alone refutes your theory. It can be done at the smallest enrollment schools at any level, with the right approach. [/QUOTE]