"According to the Equity in Athletics website, the total YU and Stern College athletic budget in 2016, the last year for which figures are available, was $1.7 million, and the recruiting budget a mere $20,398. By way of comparison, the figures at a major school like the University of Michigan, which runs a high-powered athletic program, are, respectively, about $174 million and $2.5 million."
AAAAHHHHHH - THAT'S why YU is only Division 3!! It is just a matter of money. I thought that it was because Jews are inferior athletes than Gentiles and what we lack in athletic talent, we make up for in being really smart [statistically, the smartest ethnic group in the world are Ashkenazi Jews according to Wikipedia] having a special soul and being chosen by Hashem as His people.
But now I see that it is all a question of economics. Isn't everything...
On the other hand, they say that a bar mitzva is the time when a Jewish boy realizes that chances of him owning the team are far greater than the chances he will play for it.
