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Moses Brown joined the RIIL in 2001. The Quakers are 105-22 in the regular season during that time and have played in nine Super Bowls. They certainly don't seem to be having any problems despite the limited player selection asserted by ProvidenceRes. And that's a deliberately misleading notion -- retaining 15-20 non-freshman boys from each class would give a football team 45-60 on the varsity, certainly in line with and better than some current Division I schools.

By my count, Moses Brown has a winning percentage of better than .800. That's also participation in 60 percent of the possible Super Bowls available. Regardless of enrollment, the success on the field speaks for itself. A .500 record in the regular season indicates a program is in the proper division. An .800 record -- sustained over a significant period of time in Divisions IV, III and II -- indicates a program is on solid enough footing to be promoted.

Moses Brown is well coached, has its players work out religiously in the offseason and turns out good numbers for its roster. It operates like a Division I program. It dominates the bottom divisions like a Division I program. For all intents and purposes, it is a Division I program. But this continued resistance to the above facts exposes the likes of Rogers, Central and Woonsocket -- inferior programs to Moses Brown -- to Division I instead. It's the wrong decision.