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re: If your SEC school had a Men's Soccer team, would you support it?
Posted on 6/25/14 at 9:00 am to nc14
Posted on 6/25/14 at 9:00 am to nc14
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Keep your money, when would you like me to do that? It is so difficult I getnervous thinking about it.
Whenever you feel like coming to Montgomery. I'll get some guys together that wouldn't even make the lowest semi-professional team and we'll play.
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Posted on 6/25/14 at 9:05 am to WG_Dawg
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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.
That's how they would do it in Athens?
We do it a little differently here in Columbia ... on a nice field in a nice facility all the while packing the grandstand.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 9:11 am to pvilleguru
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If we had a team, I would support it
agree with this
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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.
and especially this.
It'd be similar to college baseball in a lot of ways, not an over abundance of fans, but passionate ones. Often the best players wouldn't come through the ranks of college, but if you played on Friday nights or Saturday afternoons you could have good attendance.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 9:27 am to WG_Dawg
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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.
That was definitely not the experience at UK.
State of the art facilities. The crowd wasn't always packed, but always several hundred.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 9:32 am to pvilleguru
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Whenever you feel like coming to Montgomery. I'll get some guys together that wouldn't even make the lowest semi-professional team and we'll play.
This.
It's not the running that gets you. You can be a marathoner and not be in shape, soccer wise. It's the chopping, stopping, turning, lunging, etc that gets you.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 11:58 am to Al Bundy Bulldog
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Why doesn't the SEC have this program? All the other conferences do.
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Title IX
So...since the SEC is the only major conference without Men's Soccer, they're the only one's effected by Title IX?
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:08 pm to InfernoOrangeSS
No.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:11 pm to CockHolliday
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Men who play soccer are better conditioned than athletes in any other sport on the planet.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:16 pm to InfernoOrangeSS
I had to go to a woman's soccer game once. UGA v Texas. Everyone on that field had me drooling.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:26 pm to InfernoOrangeSS
I know the Big 12 does not sponsor men's soccer.
There are 205 Division I men's soccer programs but only the SEC and Big 12 (out of the major conferences) do not sponsor a championship.
Major Conference Schools that sponsor men's soccer:
ACC (12/15)
Boston College
Clemson
Duke
Louisville
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Notre Dame
Pitt
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
B1G (9/14)
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan State
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
Wisconsin
PAC-12 (5/12)
Cal
Oregon State
Stanford
UCLA
Washington
SEC (2/14)
Kentucky
South Carolina
B12 (1/10)
West Virginia
There are 205 Division I men's soccer programs but only the SEC and Big 12 (out of the major conferences) do not sponsor a championship.
Major Conference Schools that sponsor men's soccer:
ACC (12/15)
Boston College
Clemson
Duke
Louisville
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Notre Dame
Pitt
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
B1G (9/14)
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan State
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
Wisconsin
PAC-12 (5/12)
Cal
Oregon State
Stanford
UCLA
Washington
SEC (2/14)
Kentucky
South Carolina
B12 (1/10)
West Virginia
This post was edited on 6/26/14 at 12:11 am
Posted on 6/25/14 at 4:39 pm to FarmersFight
Posted on 6/25/14 at 4:50 pm to InfernoOrangeSS
Soccer 
Men's lacrosse
Men's lacrosse
Posted on 6/25/14 at 5:03 pm to InfernoOrangeSS
Mmm, not really. I guess I would check out the scores and records every so often, like I do with baseball. But as far as going to games...maybe if I lived closer.
This post was edited on 6/25/14 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 6/25/14 at 5:11 pm to thesoccerfanjax
I go to our biggest games, Louisville and Indiana. Sometimes others if there's nothing else to do. It's hard to learn the nuances of sports like soccer, hockey and lacrosse. They're fast-paced and continuous.
I prefer football because it's a game of strategy. It's strength vs. strength, not endurance running.
I prefer football because it's a game of strategy. It's strength vs. strength, not endurance running.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 5:46 pm to agswin
Soccer, no. But I would get behind hockey. Love the sport, and their club crowds draw better than many varsity sports, including almost all women's.
I think the egg bowl and iron bowl of hockey had 3,000 person crowds each in Birmingham and Tupelo.
I think the egg bowl and iron bowl of hockey had 3,000 person crowds each in Birmingham and Tupelo.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 6:18 pm to InfernoOrangeSS
I support all sports....now I don't watch all sports.lol. But hope they do well.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 6:48 pm to pvilleguru
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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.
I disagree. I think it would be beneficial if it were bigger in the Southeast and more schools in this area offered scholarships to males.
This post was edited on 6/25/14 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 6/25/14 at 11:01 pm to Smoke7024
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I disagree. I think it would be beneficial if it were bigger in the Southeast and more schools in this area offered scholarships to males.
It seems to help the women's teams.
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