Just a note to everyone in the "power conferences," which seem to be a long way ahead of the rest of the country:
The race for the best conference has gotten contentious, and nobody wants to be behind; thusly, it's understandable that everyone will try and lure top notch coaches out of their big-fish-in-a-small-pond schools (like killbatman, or brianp last year). While this is good in the short term for the conferences, the consolidation of the coaching 'talent' in Wooden D3 will eventually kill the world.
When 4 conferences are full, a few others are half-filled, and 20+ conferences are nearly barren, it is going to have an effect on new coaches. They aren't going to stick around their ghost-towns for long, and they'll either go up the ladder to D2, or they will be bored by the game and figure it's not worth the money.
So what we should be doing--and take this with a grain of salt because it's a tough sell--is recruiting coaches from other worlds, and even more so, from outside whatif. Friends, co-workers, in-laws, whatever you can find. The only way--long term--this world is going to remain fun and competitive, is with new coaches and more depth.
While the number of quality programs seems to be at an all-time high, the drop-off after, say, 125 in the RPI is gargantuan.