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Posted on 2/23/15 at 12:25 am to
Posted by forever lsu30
Member since Nov 2005
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Posted on 2/23/15 at 12:25 am to







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 by Pilotreb
Member since Oct 2014
334 posts
Posted on 2/23/15 at 2:10 am to
Jim brown was all American in two sports - football and lacrosse - pretty sure that's accurate!
Posted by ehole
in a house
Member since Nov 2010
3373 posts
Posted on 2/23/15 at 8:38 am to
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.
Posted by DarthRebel
Tier Five is Alive
Member since Feb 2013
21300 posts
Posted on 2/23/15 at 8:53 am to
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.
Posted by pvilleguru
Member since Jun 2009
60453 posts
Posted on 2/23/15 at 8:55 am to
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 by aggressor
Austin, TX
Member since Sep 2011
8714 posts
Posted on 2/23/15 at 9:42 am to
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.
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