colonels: You're making two claims here. The first claim is that it's absurd to be qualified for some D- and not for others. This, I think, is false, as it's a well-known fact that not all D- are created equal (I even knew it, and I've been around less than a year), and it's not unlike FT shooting, as some have mentioned. Your second is that in order to grow the game, the restrictions to coach in D1 should be looser, and you currently should qualify. To that, I really can't speak much, but we have had our share of threads recently about what it takes to get to D1 (I do remember patsrule asking recently), so we've no shortage of opinions