I graduated from Mount Union a year and a half ago and moving to a higher division (like Delaware did) would be very difficult for this program. I may have a biased opinion but have a good understanding of the program and the hard work that is put into it. Mount Union is a school with 2,200 kids that offers no athletic scholarships. They recruit kids based on their strong tradition, coaching staff, and facilities. The coaches do a great job of recruiting year after year, and if you look, the majority of the players on Mounts team are from the Northeast Ohio area. Because of its tradition, Mt. Union is attractive to division 1 transfers and strong high school players that might not cut playing at a D-1 school. It is tough to compete with D-1 and D-2 schools in recruiting when no scholarships can be offered. Moving to D-2 for a school of 2,200 kids would be ridiculous even if scholarships could be offered. Even in D-3 we played some schools with 10,000 kids. The larger the school, the larger the talent pool. In Mount Union’s case the talent pool is smaller but very thick with talent. I credit this all to the hard work of the coaching staff.
posted by GOLIATH55 at 08:27 AM on December 20, 2005
Mount Union
I graduated from Mount Union a year and a half ago and moving to a higher division (like Delaware did) would be very difficult for this program. I may have a biased opinion but have a good understanding of the program and the hard work that is put into it. Mount Union is a school with 2,200 kids that offers no athletic scholarships. They recruit kids based on their strong tradition, coaching staff, and facilities. The coaches do a great job of recruiting year after year, and if you look, the majority of the players on Mounts team are from the Northeast Ohio area. Because of its tradition, Mt. Union is attractive to division 1 transfers and strong high school players that might not cut playing at a D-1 school. It is tough to compete with D-1 and D-2 schools in recruiting when no scholarships can be offered. Moving to D-2 for a school of 2,200 kids would be ridiculous even if scholarships could be offered. Even in D-3 we played some schools with 10,000 kids. The larger the school, the larger the talent pool. In Mount Union’s case the talent pool is smaller but very thick with talent. I credit this all to the hard work of the coaching staff.