{"id":22989,"date":"1999-11-29T21:02:50","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1999\/11\/29\/st-norbert-hockey-to-stay-diii\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:53:58","slug":"st-norbert-hockey-to-stay-diii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1999\/11\/29\/st-norbert-hockey-to-stay-diii\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Norbert Hockey To Stay D-III"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ending months of speculation about the future of the program, a schoolcommittee has recommended that St. Norbert College should not move hockey to the Division I level. <\/p>\n
The report, obtained and reported by the Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette<\/i>, concluded that the Green Knights would not be competitive at the D-I level because the school could not offer scholarships under NCAA rules. <\/p>\n
The school was considering moving two sports — hockey and women’s soccer — to the top level and leaving the rest of the college’s sports at the Division III level. Under NCAA rules in that situation, the school could not offer scholarships.<\/p>\n
“Lower-quality athletes would put St. Norbert D-I athletics programs at a competitive disadvantage against programs sponsored by D-I institutions that can offer scholarships,” the report said.<\/p>\n
Among other concerns weighing in the 13-member committee’s decision were gender equity and the feasibility of joining a Division I conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ending months of speculation about the future of the program, a schoolcommittee has recommended that St. Norbert College should not move hockey to the Division I level. The report, obtained and reported by the Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette, concluded that the Green Knights would not be competitive at the D-I level because the school could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n