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re: LSU 12 Ole Miss 6 F Men's Lacrosse
Posted on 2/1/15 at 2:07 pm to Pipe Dream
Posted on 2/1/15 at 2:07 pm to Pipe Dream
Lacrosse is an awesome sport.
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Posted on 2/1/15 at 2:43 pm to Pipe Dream
Dude I love lax, and even coach it, but some if these club teams are just awful and almost unwatchable.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 5:10 pm to Rebelgator
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poor people
Do you know anything about sports? Lacrosse is the definition of rich white prep school sport.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 5:26 pm to LSUlax17
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Lacrosse is the definition of rich white prep school sport.
I mean seriously, look at the schools in the NCAA tournament last year.
Duke, Air Force, Virginia, John Hopkins, Penn, Drexel, Denver, UNC, Loyola, Albany, Notre Dame, Maryland, Cornell, Syracuse, and Bryant. I just got whiter and richer by listing those schools.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 5:39 pm to Sellecks Moustache
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Lacrosse is the definition of rich white prep school sport.
:kige:
Posted on 2/1/15 at 6:11 pm to Sellecks Moustache
Maryland is not an all white school by any stretch. There are a lot of African Americans that attend that college.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 7:30 pm to PNW
No but I'd bet that majority if not all of the kids on their lacrosse team are white
Posted on 2/23/15 at 12:25 am to Crimson Legend
The fact is that this game is only on the rise.
The most predominant hurdle to the growth of the game for the last few centuries is purely ignorance. The white man proved themselves ignorant to the Native Americans, their cultures, & customs In all aspects-including sport.
The NE US & Canada embraced the game in all its glory & has cultivated the best athletes the world has ever seen. Jim Brown, Gary Gait, Casey Powell, Paul Rabil are just the tip of the iceberg. For the last 20 years the game has spread further South & West. The State of Florida recognizes it as a varsity sports for both boys & girls high school play & they are experiencing a DECREASE in varsity fooball participation.
NCAA collegiate rosters are beginning to fill with players from Texas, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, California, & even Louisiana. Club teams are forming or strengthening at a pace never seen before at colleges.
With more football coaches recognizing the game as the prime Spring sport to continue to develop their athletes, they too are embracing lacrosse.
More players can see more playing time, consistently, than soccer or basketball or baseball. Which attributes to it's pace of growth as young athletes are lookong for every angle they can to play on a team & more importantly find a place for them in the college level. Lacrosse ranks as 1 of the highest team sports in GPA & graduation rate. With more NCAA teams each year the opportunitis for those players keeps becoming a reality.
Fielding lacrosse at the NCAA level isn't about making a profit. It's about fielding student-athletes who become alumni. Alumni with statistically higher paying jobs resulting in yielding larger donation dollars.
Get on board. Or keep being ignorant. Either way, the game will be everywhere before you know it.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 2:10 am to forever lsu30
Jim brown was all American in two sports - football and lacrosse - pretty sure that's accurate!
Posted on 2/23/15 at 6:42 am to Pilotreb
For the longest time he was the 1st AA athlete in 2 college sports HOFs. Not sure if he's still the only. Impressive nonetheless.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 6:43 am to Pilotreb
For the longest time he was the 1st AA athlete in 2 college sports HOFs. Not sure if he's still the only. Impressive nonetheless.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 8:38 am to forever lsu30
so even after a 70% boom only 8600 people play it in florida... with a population of almost 20 million 
it would've been virtually impossible for the numbers to reduce.
it would've been virtually impossible for the numbers to reduce.Posted on 2/23/15 at 8:41 am to Pipe Dream
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Every school in the SEC has a club lacrosse team. Many of them are very good. The majority of D1 schools in the country are club teams. Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the US and most of the club teams play in a league with a national championship at the end of the season. The ACC and the BIG 10 have a few D1 programs. All of the schools in the Big XII are club. Regardless of their status, there are many exceptional players at this level who pay to play a sport they love.
So the real question here is, how many of those 12 goals did you score?
Posted on 2/23/15 at 8:53 am to forever lsu30
Grew up in upstate New York and played lacrosse.
It was by far the 2nd most popular sport in HS behind football. It battled hockey for the #2 spot, but lax had an edge because it was a Spring sport.
Our varsity soccer team was ranked #2 in the country (ESPN actually televised a game) and we were still more popular than those girly men.
It was by far the 2nd most popular sport in HS behind football. It battled hockey for the #2 spot, but lax had an edge because it was a Spring sport.
Our varsity soccer team was ranked #2 in the country (ESPN actually televised a game) and we were still more popular than those girly men.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 8:55 am to DarthRebel
LSU owns Ole Miss
Posted on 2/23/15 at 8:55 am to forever lsu30
If that chart showing lacrosse being a faster growing sport than soccer isn't skewed, I don't know what is. As far as participation goes, I don't know how much more soccer can actually grow. Many high schools in my area already have 5 soccer teams (BV, BJV, B Freshman, GV, and GJV). You'll be lucky to find a school with even one Lacrosse team.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 9:03 am to ctiger69
Posted on 2/23/15 at 9:42 am to forever lsu30
I'm glad some of you love Lacrosse and all but the times I have watched it it made water polo seem more exciting. Those stats are also crazy manipulated. Of course the growth numbers are crazy when you are talking about single digit thousands and comparing it to a sport like soccer that has hundreds of thousands. For instance just with a quick search Florida has over 113k kids registered for US Youth Soccer alone with your numbers showing Lacrosse with 8k.
The GPA number is also laughable, as though somehow playing Lacrosse makes you smarter. The only reason for that number is the places that have Lacrosse tend to be wealthy suburban schools that are going to always have higher GPA's than a more universal sport.
Our HS has a lacrosse team and so does the Middle school. Kind of hacks me off honestly that we have a lacrosse team in Middle school but no baseball team (a sport with 10X the participation rate easily). It's not a cheap sport either, that equipment is expensive.
I'm sure it is more fun to play than to watch but that can be said for pretty much every sport.
The GPA number is also laughable, as though somehow playing Lacrosse makes you smarter. The only reason for that number is the places that have Lacrosse tend to be wealthy suburban schools that are going to always have higher GPA's than a more universal sport.
Our HS has a lacrosse team and so does the Middle school. Kind of hacks me off honestly that we have a lacrosse team in Middle school but no baseball team (a sport with 10X the participation rate easily). It's not a cheap sport either, that equipment is expensive.
I'm sure it is more fun to play than to watch but that can be said for pretty much every sport.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 9:56 am to aggressor
So an Aggie thinks a bunch of men wearing speedos throwing a ball around is more exciting than lacrosse.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 10:27 am to DarthRebel
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It was by far the 2nd most popular sport in HS behind football. It battled hockey for the #2 spot, but lax had an edge because it was a Spring sport.
My high school's cross-town rivalry game in lacrosse is just as heavily attended as the football game. This is in Virginia.
I think a lot of people saying it's boring have either only watching it on TV where you can't see the ball very well, or live in fringe areas where it's mostly played and coached poorly with generally less athletic players than the ones in other more popular sports.
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