Yes, here at the DesignatedWriters.com headquarters, we are keenly aware of the paucity of coverage we have given Division III football. And along comes a story that solves all of our problems.

The University of St. Thomas — which seems like it should be on a Caribbean island but is actually located in Minnesota — has been kicked out of its own conference. That would be the MIAC and I’ll give you a moment to impress your friends. OK, time’s up … that’s the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Since 2010, they’ve won six MIAC titles and been in the national title game twice. And so they got the boot. Well, the actual description was that the Tommies — I couldn’t make that nickname up —  were “involuntarily” removed from the conference.

Nine years of domination — and not really even total domination — gets you a conference pink slip? Does anybody up there know how to spell Alabama?

(Now might be a good time to mention, in the interest of fairness, that they did administer a 97-0 beatdown on St. Olaf in 2017, but you and I both know that St. Olaf — nicknamed the Oles — was asking for it.)

Plus, they had the audacity to finish 10th — tenth! — in the Division III nation in the all-sports competition. So if they had finished, say, fifth, would someone have burned the campus down?

By the way, in the previous 20 years before they started winning rings, the University of St. Thomas didn’t win jack squat. Nada. Zilch. In fact, conference foe (now former conference foe) St. John’s was racking up the bling year after year. Nobody said boo.

Apparently, the problem is that St. Thomas has the biggest enrollment (about 6,000) and spends more on football ($1.1 million) than anybody else, so that’s a “competitive advantage.”

Look for a new MIAC football trophy to be awarded after the championship game next year. It will be easy to spot; it will be the one with the orange slices and drink boxes on it.