Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Regarding D1 lax programs, I think Title 9 forced many colleges to drop Men's lacrosse. So, starting with the following schools, lacrosse simply needs to recapture schools who dropped lacrosse!!:

Boston College, Michigan State, Gannon University, Morgan State, UConn, UNH, Butler, Radford, William & Mary, NC State, Bowling Green, William & Mary, etc.

Youth programs like Edge lacrosse simply need to be met head on by tourney directors who refuse their registration unless they play in their proper age group. It's really that simple.


Title IV isn't sport for sport - it's participation. So schools that have football need to balance that out with girls participation with another sport. A good example is Vanderbilt and BC.


I would add that the lack of new D1 programs has ZERO to do with whether youth lax is organized by grade, age, holdbacks etc. Colleges that add lax do so because they believe it will affect admissions and fundraising in a positive way. To big SEC football schools the addition of men's lax would require the addition of 40+ spots for woman's sports - and all the scholarship money, coaches salaries, travel etc. for them to be competitive - because the Alabama's of the world wouldn't add lax to be a bottom feeder. On the other hand a small private college that costs $50k/yr adding men's and woman's lacrosse would mean 80-100 spots filled with mostly rich kids whose parents can pay full freight. You know the country club set. So there's plenty of new D3 teams being added every year to cater the all the parents that spend $2k/yr for lax starting in 3rd grade.