While enjoying Salisbury v Middlebury clashlacrosse, I waited until the game was over to purchase several items. Two things struck me as wrong: 1) Vendors had raised the price of shirts, hats, etc. by as much as $3.00 each, from their pregame price and 2. the allotted supply of merchandise for the DIII was skimpy, at best.

I know it is all about money and that DI rules (wouldn't want to disrupt scholarship monies). But I bet the DIII guys, each being one of 360,000 student athletes currently enrolled, practices and plays just as hard as any DI student/athlete and without the perks and money offered by DI institutions. I just continue to suppress my disdain at the NCAA and ESPN for bending over backwards to accommodate, highlight and advertise Maryland, Hopkins, Virginia and Syracuse and, in what seems as if they are step-children give little gratis to the DII and DIII schools all in town for Championship weekend. But via ESPN we got to watch over ten hours of the Women's Softball Championship (thank god for Title IX).

Stellar performances by two longstanding NCAA lacrosse institutions, were lost to the viewing public as the two quietly went about there business, in the rain, slick and mud for the sake of sport and to be the best. Lots of money was made, but interest in any DII or DIII school by those states who have up and coming lacrosse programs is now limited to the written word and a figment of ones imagination. You have DI photos and softball photos on the NCAA website, where are the other two division photos? So NOT ALL student/athletes are equally represented!

Knowing it takes an act of congress for the NC2A to change anything, my suggestion is to revamp your coverage to give all of the 360,000 student athletes fair coverage. Otherwise, revamp your commercial to say the student/athlete's efforts are only noteworthy if you participate in DI sports.

What is the availability of officially sanctioned DIII Lacrosse playoff merchandise for Salisbury and Middlebury fans to purchase?