(10-04-2016 02:57 PM)Cave_Johnson Wrote:  This is true. As an example Lewis Clark State College in Idaho is a huge baseball power at the NAIA level due in part to the fact that their academic requirements are basically nonexistent. Even for an NAIA school. They regularly get players with D1 talent who flunk out or get kicked out of big name baseball programs. That's not to say they don't have excellent coaching as well, but the talent gap is easy to see when they play schools like College of Idaho (a private NAIA school) or British Columbia that have fairly strict academic requirements.

It would definitely be harder for them to compete without their lower standards for athletes. That said, they do regularly beat up on D2 schools like Central Washington and generally compete very well against schools like Gonzaga, WSU, and UW. In baseball at least.

Again, NOT true, at least since PlayNAIA came into being. And LCSC won the NAIA world series again this year. Players go there because they win, it's a great baseball town, they have a fantastic facility, and their players get drafted and make it to the pros on a regular basis.