On a pretty busy day (day job, Randolph-Macon hiring, Sean Wallis announces he’s returning) a tweet caught my eye:

Published a new blog post: Mondays with Myles and Friends: DIII Identity

This from the NCAA’s official blog, the Double-A Zone. So I was hoping this would be some serious discussion of the issues facing Division III and its struggles to gain attention in a noisy collegiate athletics landscape.

In five minutes of interview, admittedly, that would be tough to do.

Unfortunately, even in the NCAA’s attempt to promote this concept, it drops the ball. It’s hard to take a program seriously when it mispronounces the name of the guest right out of the gate. And maybe I’m nitpicking, but the NCAA’s Twitter message promoting the interview had a broken link — at least, it didn’t fit in Twitter’s 140-character limit.

But it’s hard to expect more when the national office has so many people who don’t care about Division III.

Anyway, here’s the interview with NCAA vice president for Division III Dan Dutcher. (That’s in case the embed below doesn’t work for you.)