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burnspbesq
06-16-2017, 01:00 PM
Board of Trustees voted unanimously to add NCAA D1 men's lax beginning in 2019.

http://www.sltrib.com/sports/5410203-155/utah-utes-to-add-mens-lacrosse

This move could quickly flip three more dominoes--Colorado, Colorado State, and BYU, all of which are long-time MCLA powerhouses--leading to the creation of a six-team Rocky Mountain league with an AQ.

Longer term, it may lead more Pac-12 schoolsto move up. The Pac-12 is sponsoring women's lax beginning next year when ASU starts up, and will get an AQ.

hallcity
06-16-2017, 01:26 PM
Closer to home, what about NCSU, Va.Tech, Louisville, Pitt, BC, Ga.Tech, etc?

budwom
06-16-2017, 02:09 PM
Closer to home, what about NCSU, Va.Tech, Louisville, Pitt, BC, Ga.Tech, etc?

BC is culturally a great fit. Lots of good high school/prep school lacrosse in the area, and many of the nation's top lacrosse high schools are Catholic, for what that's worth.

burnspbesq
06-16-2017, 02:35 PM
If I had to make a bet today, I'd bet on Pitt. Their new AD is a former chair of the men's D1 lax committee, and they have an indoor facility under construction. After that, GaTech; the ATL has become a hotbed, and while they have facilities issues, they appear to not be insurmountable.

jimsumner
06-16-2017, 03:08 PM
Keep in mind that if a school adds a men's sport, they have to add a roughly-equivalent women's sport in order to balance out Title IX mandates.

Bluedog
06-16-2017, 03:21 PM
Keep in mind that if a school adds a men's sport, they have to add a roughly-equivalent women's sport in order to balance out Title IX mandates.

And lacrosse has a LOT of players on the roster. Next to football, it's basically the biggest sport. Duke tries to balance things out by having rowing on the women's side only as that team is also quite large. (Men's team in not varsity).

SCMatt33
06-16-2017, 03:34 PM
Keep in mind that if a school adds a men's sport, they have to add a roughly-equivalent women's sport in order to balance out Title IX mandates.

Yes, and many schools already use women's lacrosse to balance other men's teams. As Bluedog said, lacrosse rosters are large, though title IX is pretty vague. Scholarships are just as big of a deal as total roster spots. One reason rowing is often utilized is that it allows 20 equivalent scholarships which is the most outside of football. Men's lacrosse allows 12.6. On the men's side, this is bigger than any sport outside of football and basketball (tied with Track/cross country). Lacrosse is also the absolute only sport which allows more men's scholarships than women's (the women get up to 12 equivalent scholarshops). Of course, lacrosse is also the only NCAA sport where the men's and women's version are practically different sports without calling themselves different sports. I would think with title IX, that GTech would be the most feasible ACC school to add one as with the unbalanced student population, they wouldn't need to add a large women's team to offset

CrazyNotCrazie
06-16-2017, 03:52 PM
Yes, and many schools already use women's lacrosse to balance other men's teams. As Bluedog said, lacrosse rosters are large, though title IX is pretty vague. Scholarships are just as big of a deal as total roster spots. One reason rowing is often utilized is that it allows 20 equivalent scholarships which is the most outside of football. Men's lacrosse allows 12.6. On the men's side, this is bigger than any sport outside of football and basketball (tied with Track/cross country). Lacrosse is also the absolute only sport which allows more men's scholarships than women's (the women get up to 12 equivalent scholarshops). Of course, lacrosse is also the only NCAA sport where the men's and women's version are practically different sports without calling themselves different sports. I would think with title IX, that GTech would be the most feasible ACC school to add one as with the unbalanced student population, they wouldn't need to add a large women's team to offset

I was thinking the same thing about GA Tech's student population (which is about 2/3 male). However, if they already have that factored into their current sports allocations, then they would still need a match for men's lax, though as you noted, that match would not require the same number of scholarships due to the proportions in the student body. They have men's but not women's golf, so adding women's golf while adding men's lax would help balance things out - it looks like the max for women's golf is 6, which would get them pretty close. Or they could add men's and women's lax simultaneously.

BigWayne
06-18-2017, 02:08 AM
BC is culturally a great fit. Lots of good high school/prep school lacrosse in the area, and many of the nation's top lacrosse high schools are Catholic, for what that's worth.

BC had Men's lacrosse, but eliminated it because of Title IX. (http://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=bcheights19990427.2.45)

budwom
06-18-2017, 11:12 AM
BC had Men's lacrosse, but eliminated it because of Title IX. (http://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=bcheights19990427.2.45)

Yeah, their problem is that they pour a lot of resources into hockey, which the rest of the ACC doesn't. And being a private school, those scholarships are expensive. Too bad, they could be
a very good fit as an ACC lax school.

jimsumner
06-18-2017, 06:39 PM
NC State also had and dropped a men's lacrosse program. In fact, Wolfpack alum Stan Cockerton is still one of the leading career scorers in NCAA history.

State dropped the sport in the early 1980s, citing the expense of having to recruit its entire team from out of state. It didn't help that a few of their players were involved in some legal issues.

No realistic chance to reviving the sport anytime soon, if at all.