Don multi-divisional schools have a competitive advantage?
The majority of the eight’s conference rival schools, the schools against which we compete most of the time, support our position. For instance, Steve Ulrich, the executive director of the Centennial Conference, of which Johns Hopkins University is a member, says, “We are the ones that compete with Hopkins for automatic berths to Division III tournaments. If there is an advantage to having a Division I program on campus for the remainder of the Division III programs, it is not apparent at Johns Hopkins and it has not presented problems for our conference. If it does not bother us, why should it bother the rest of Division III?” John Fry, president of Franklin and Marshall and chair of the Centennial Conference Executive Committee, says, “It is (the Centennial Conference’s) position that Johns Hopkins has gained no competitive advantage on the other members of the Centennial Conference from its Division I lacrosse program. As Hopkins’ chief competitors for automatic berths to NCAA Divis
