Wow a couple of simple thoughts to try and spur some discussion went sour pretty quick. It all started with saying the bottom 50 teams in D1 are weak and that there is some decent lacrosse being played in D2 and D3. Thought maybe some people outside the D1 top 10 would chime. I for one think the top D3 programs can compete with a lot of bottom D1's. After Maryland and handful of others the talent is pretty even
It's more than "a handful of others". But yes, beyond team 60 in the D1 rankings it gets less clear. The way you are stating it implies that a top D3 program would compete well with teams that would simply be way out of their league on a lax field. Draw the line where you want, but it isn't at Maryland and a handful of others. If you say Maryland and 59 others, now you may be getting somewhere near a valid point.
