OK, first off, I played DIII and I've really taken acception to people viewing Hobart's now aborted move to DIII as a death sentence. It's not as if the program was being dropped from the school. DIII is good ball - granted some teams are pretty weak -like Delbarton could beat the lower eschelon ones- but it's legitimate lacrosse.

In fact I think most DIII teams have a couple of guys who could play DI. To me, the main distinction iss the DI has a whole team of DI players. That is, there are some weak links on DIII teams.

The distinction between DI and DIII lax is not as wide as it is in DI and DIII basketball.
That's to say that if Carolina played Salisbury, I don't think the score would be 27-3 whereeas if they played hoops it could absolutely be 100-40.