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If your SEC school had a Men's Soccer team, would you support it?

Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:01 am
Posted by InfernoOrangeSS
Pelham, AL
Member since Mar 2014
815 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:01 am
I think only UK and USCe field teams at the present time. If your school fielded a team, would you go see them play? Would conference rivalries help interest like it does in other non-revenue sports like baseball and T&F?

Why doesn't the SEC have this program? All the other conferences do.

Just curious what some think about it.
Posted by Patton
Principality of Sealand
Member since Apr 2011
32652 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:02 am to
No

Soccer is awesome once every four years and when my country is playing other countries because frick other countries
This post was edited on 6/25/14 at 8:03 am
Posted by nc14
La Jolla
Member since Jan 2012
28193 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:02 am to
I have never used this before but the time is right - GTFO.

Soccer is a girl's sport.
Posted by KCM0Tiger
Kansas City, MISSOURI
Member since Nov 2011
15535 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:10 am to
Yes. We should drop baseball and add soccer
Posted by TRUERockyTop
Appalachia
Member since Sep 2011
15847 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:10 am to
Absolutely
Posted by 12
Redneck part of Florida
Member since Nov 2010
18765 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:12 am to
Yes.
Posted by SouthOfSouth
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2008
43463 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:12 am to
I would go to a ton of LSU Soccer matches if we had a team. I wish the SEC would pick up this sport.
Posted by TJRibMe
Houston, Mexas
Member since Sep 2004
5214 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:13 am to
Vandy has a team, no???
Posted by agswin
The Republic of Texas
Member since Aug 2011
4344 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:15 am to
Would be impossible in Texas. State law prohibits communist sports on campus.
Posted by reggierayreb
Germantown
Member since Nov 2012
16974 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:15 am to
I would definitely go to a few matches every year
Posted by jamhexxx
Destrehan
Member since Dec 2007
514 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:17 am to
No. I would rather watch the quidditch team.
Posted by Eric Nies Grind Time
Atlanta GA - ITP
Member since Sep 2012
24937 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:20 am to
No...I would not spend money to travel to games and go see it. I may see it if it happened to be going on while I was seeing something else. Plus it would never be televised.

So basically I would just check the box score every once in a while. The same way I follow the other minor sports like Softball, Tennis, Golf, Women's basketball, etc.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86553 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:22 am to
If I was a student, yes.

Now, hell no.

A college soccer game on a crappy field with 50 people in teh stands isn't the same as everyone getting pumped for the world cup every 4 years.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Tittleman's Crest
Member since Feb 2009
52798 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:23 am to
Sure.
Posted by MenloDawg
Member since Jan 2010
6719 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:23 am to
No. I'm from a rural area where the idea of my high school's soccer team was to simply field one so that all football players who didn't play baseball/run track in the spring could stay in shape. I played one year when I was 6 because I wasn't old enough to play football yet (rec leagues offered soccer in the fall). I scored the first goal in our county's inaugural soccer league, then bowed out. Forever.

I know it's wildly popular in suburban America, but soccer really bores me. I respect the hell out of the condition soccer players are in, but they're physically laughable, there is no flow to the game, and they flop more than NBA players.
Posted by heartbreakTiger
grinding for my grinders
Member since Jan 2008
138974 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:26 am to
Id go to plenty of matches. The LSU hooliganism would be awesome
Posted by GeauxPack81
Member since Dec 2009
10483 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:26 am to
I would cheer for them and be a fan, but hell no I wouldn't go to any of the games. There is a reason that people watch the Premier League over the MLS, the talent disparity is noticeable. A start up LSU soccer team would be like me going to watch my friends kick around a soccer ball.

Now if LSU was a top collegiate program in soccer or if America began to have top athletes playing soccer, then sure I'd watch. Love watching the sport, just not people who are bad at it.
Posted by Han Solo
MURICA
Member since Jun 2014
417 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:26 am to
No
Posted by pvilleguru
Member since Jun 2009
60453 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:31 am to
If we had a team, I would support it. However, college soccer is detrimental to our national team, so I would like for college soccer to only be for guys that don't really have a future in the sport.
Posted by Bama Bird
Member since Dec 2011
Member since Mar 2013
19074 posts
Posted on 6/25/14 at 8:35 am to
I attended several women's soccer games when at UA. They were pretty fun, actually. More fun than baseball

I know I'm going to get accused of trolling, but that's my honest opinion
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