Good point. With the expanded field, it might allow a team to play someone in D1AA. Isn't the GLIAC moving into our region? Personally, that means we'll be struggling for playoff spots again, and so for us to play DIAA would not be good.
The NCC just doesn't seem to get the respect of the regional committees.
I had never realized that if you expand the playoffs for one gender you have to for the other. This just doesn't make any sense when fb only is allowing 24 teams and vb and softball will expand to 64. I don't think it should be number of people, but rather a percentage of teams that play the sport.