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Uneven number of schools. Or adding UConn and another school??
Virginia would be nice.
Uneven number of schools. Or adding UConn and another school??
This is just a random thought and have nothing on it; but, any chance that U Delaware will upgrade to one of the P5 conferences in the future? The are not AAU; but, US News has them #76, which is just behind V Tech and tied with Indiana & UMass and ahead of Michigan St, U Colorado, Alabama, etc. I think the school is some odd public/private hybrid, like Rutgers used to be. They have 17,000 undergrads on a really nice campus in a fun college town. Looks like the only facility upgrade they would need is a larger football stadium (and maybe new uniforms as either they copied Michigan or vice versa). They even have good lax and are one of the top 'club' hockey teams like Penn St used to be. Throw in that they are smack in between Philly and Baltimore, which counters the fact that the are in the smallest state in then nation. I had work in Wilmington the other day and had dinner in Newark and then went for a walk though campus after. Thus, my query.
This is just a random thought and have nothing on it; but, any chance that U Delaware will upgrade to one of the P5 conferences in the future? The are not AAU; but, US News has them #76, which is just behind V Tech and tied with Indiana & UMass and ahead of Michigan St, U Colorado, Alabama, etc. I think the school is some odd public/private hybrid, like Rutgers used to be. They have 17,000 undergrads on a really nice campus in a fun college town. Looks like the only facility upgrade they would need is a larger football stadium (and maybe new uniforms as either they copied Michigan or vice versa). They even have good lax and are one of the top 'club' hockey teams like Penn St used to be. Throw in that they are smack in between Philly and Baltimore, which counters the fact that the are in the smallest state in then nation. I had work in Wilmington the other day and had dinner in Newark and then went for a walk though campus after. Thus, my query.
Delaney is on ESPN2 right now talking about B1G Lacrosse's future....looking to expand the sport, quote on quote "east."
UCONN needs to get with the times (the state is a lax hotbed), and start building a program like we are with hockey. Give it 5 years and we will be competitive as anyone.
There is no reason to drop baseball. The 2011 team had 12 players who would eventually be drafted (plus one undrafted player that signed a pro contract afterwards). 12 of those 13 players were from the northeast including both first round picks. Next year Anthony Kay (also from the northeast) figures to be drafted in the first 2 rounds with a strong possibility that he goes in the first. We are the only program that matters in New England and it makes no sense to drop it in order to fund Lacrosse.
p.s. Hopefully when Springer signs a contract for $100+ million in a few years, he'll be generous enough to throw a million or two back to UConn.
Not sure, but per the video @CallMeBruce posted it sounded like they only need 3 scholarships to upgrade to D1 - not sure if they would need more to be part of a conference though and not sure the max.I'm sure this is covered somewhere amongst the 7 pages in this thread, but how many scholarships is a DI Men's Lacrosse program allowed?
I can find the money for lacrosse by the end of this post...
Drop baseball, it's an absolute waste of resources for schools in the Northeast.
If we're in a real conference, it's probably a no-brainer. But with our revenue sliding in Aresco's Folly, not sure how we get some of these things done.
Steve Stenersen, the executive director of US Lacrosse — the national governing body that has invested more than $170 million in the sport since 1998 — spoke bullishly about lacrosse’s health during a telephone interview this week, noting that the number of people participating has tripled since 2000 to more than 770,000. According to statistics released this month by the Sports and Fitness Industry Association, lacrosse and gymnastics are the only team sports to show growth among participants between ages 6 and 17 over the last five years.
“We’re certainly pleased that our sport continues to buck a bit of that trend,” Stenersen said. “We’re still small, relatively speaking. But we’re thrilled.”
The rate of growth in total participation has slowed considerably, from a peak of 16.7 percent in 2004 to 3.5 percent in 2014, but Stenersen said that was the byproduct of a larger base. Lacrosse continues to spread across the country, rapidly gaining popularity in states like California, Oregon, Washington and Florida.
Yet the shrinking buzz for the national title weekend has become the elephant in the room for the N.C.A.A. After packing more than 123,000 fans over three days in Baltimore in 2007, when the games returned to M&T Bank Stadium last year, a total of 78,234 fans passed through the turnstiles, a drop of more than 36 percent.
“The trend is disappointing,” said Terence Foy, editor in chief of Inside Lacrosse magazine. “Because, for so long, attendance at the Final Four was seen as such a symbol of growth and progress, as well as validation.”
Now, Foy said, there are other signs that validate lacrosse’s growth, but the attendance numbers keep sliding.
The NCAA got greedy just as it did with soccer in the early 2000's when UConn won the men's title in front of a 1/4 full stadium in Charlotte. If the lax title was held down the river at PPL Park (18,000) instead of Lincoln Field (68,500) this year, it would have made sense.
...but there aren't a whole lot of 20-30k stadiums in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic that are truly neutral (ie not associated with a DI university, lax playing or not) sites...
There are a lot of MLS stadiums in the northeast now that would be the perfect size. Also, the Rent is in an emerging hotbed. I think that would be a perfect venue too.
We're going to need gymnastics, wrestling, etc, to keep up with Big Ten schools. Looooooong way to go.
And 6 men's ice hockey teams.Nah they're already really good at those things.. they don't need us... but the B1G only has 6 Lacrosse schools.
Exactly.And 6 men's ice hockey teams.
Nah they're already really good at those things.. they don't need us... but the B1G only has 6 Lacrosse schools.
Not when we take away their New England recruits.Maryland and JHU count as, like, three schools each on their own.