...though with the exception of one year at DIII Greensboro (before I jumped to Lowell), that's my only lower-division experience.

Anyway, I'm joining Tark DIII next season - it seems like Tark as a whole has a high level of competition, and I like a challenge.  I'd be fine building a great-team-in-a-terrible-conference kind of thing, as well as being one of many coaches in a power conference - though I'm not convinced those exist in Tark, considering how every conference appears to have a bunch of openings.

So convince me to join your conference!  What's open, and why should I take it?

Current frontrunners: Whitman, US Merchant Marines, Piedmont, Bowdoin

Head to the USac.  They've got a very active coaches corner and some healthy conference rivalries.

Once the USac gets filled, we need to make a concentrated effort to filling up the MIAC.  

Decided to go my own way and build a good-team-in-a-bad-conference with Bowdoin - couldn't resist the urge to be a Polar Bear.  I mean, could you?

I'll hit y'all up for non-con.

Wanted something new - never been in a situation before where I have to schedule a gauntlet in the non-con in order to have an NT RPI before; I've also coached at Greensboro before and wanted to try a new conference.

I admit that Piedmont, in terms of location, was probably my #2 choice (NYC, probably Merch Marines), and in terms of difficulty, probably the hardest.  But I'd argue that it's just as much of a challenge winning an NT starting as a bad team in a bad conference as it is from a bad team in a good one - I'll get over the initial hump faster at Bowdoin than I would at Piedmont, but once I want to be getting past the Sweet Sixteen, I imagine that a lack of tourney money or RPI help will burn me.

I'll be honest, though, the color scheme at Bowdoin was probably the number one factor.  That and the cool mascot, wacky location, and the fact that it's actually quite a strong school academically do actually matter to me.