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Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:24 pm
So, this isn’t to advocate a D1 Mens soccer team for our schools, but more to understand why it’s non existent??
I had a lot of friends that played club, continued to play club at A&M, but that’s expensive. Most transition into men’s intramural soccer.
Is it because there isn’t money for it, but there was for girls, the country isn’t talent rich enough to field teams, the men who pro don’t need to play in college? What’s the back story on why there is no real men D1 teams in Power conferences?
I had a lot of friends that played club, continued to play club at A&M, but that’s expensive. Most transition into men’s intramural soccer.
Is it because there isn’t money for it, but there was for girls, the country isn’t talent rich enough to field teams, the men who pro don’t need to play in college? What’s the back story on why there is no real men D1 teams in Power conferences?
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Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:26 pm to JayAg
Because this is America.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:30 pm to JayAg
Sir, this is a Merica.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:33 pm to Open Dore Policy
We don’t have SEC wrestling or hockey either lol. Mizzou has to go wrestle in the Big 12.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:39 pm to JayAg
Notice what school the guy asking about soccer is from.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:43 pm to JayAg
Title IX, you need more women’s sports teams than men’s
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:44 pm to JayAg
Title 9
I think South Carolina and kentucky were playing in Ohio Valley Conf for a little bit
I think South Carolina and kentucky were playing in Ohio Valley Conf for a little bit
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 6:46 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:46 pm to TheWalrus
Our hockey team had been denied D1 status for like 15 years now. No matter how much they raise. If you ever lived up northeast in the big cities, hockey is more popular than college sports. Blew my mind.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 6:59 pm to JayAg
Idk why the SEC doesn’t have wrestling. We have a lot of great wrestlers in the southern states.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:11 pm to JayAg
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If you ever lived up northeast in the big cities, hockey is more popular than college sports. Blew my mind.
Hockey is easier and more fun to play on a frozen lake than football or baseball.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:13 pm to JayAg
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Mizzou
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:27 pm to JayAg
There’s not money for it. Most Schools especially in the south don’t dedicate many resources or money to it. Plus soccer wasn’t even allowed to be played in some states like Mississippi until the mid 90’s. In fact while we were moving from state to state, I was a part of the first soccer team in Meridian and it just hasn’t taken off. Soccer in my opinion isn’t a “bigger sport”, it just seems that way because there’s only a few soccer clubs in each country. I went to England and it’s either ManU or ManCity. Speaking with the fans in hey essentially say, if you only had two football teams to root for in America, then it would be bigger.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:38 pm to RTRnFlorida
Soccer is by far the richest sport. Even the women’s WC final averages a billion viewers.
The way soccer is built here with ODP, unless you convince U-20 kids on the national team to play in college start ups for NIL money, the statistical odds of an SEC soccer player going to play in the big clubs in the world is close to 0. And I don’t want to be gloomy of the soccer talent in the South. But, we can probably poach all the MLS’s young talent that get paid $50k a year to start. Idk.
The way soccer is built here with ODP, unless you convince U-20 kids on the national team to play in college start ups for NIL money, the statistical odds of an SEC soccer player going to play in the big clubs in the world is close to 0. And I don’t want to be gloomy of the soccer talent in the South. But, we can probably poach all the MLS’s young talent that get paid $50k a year to start. Idk.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:39 pm to JayAg
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SEC Men’s Soccer Question
by JayAg
quote:Checks out.
Favorite team:Texas A&M
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:52 pm to JayAg
The problem is you’re not comparing apples to apples. Most of if not almost every country outside of the US and a few don’t have football, PGA, MLB, NBA, college baseball college football, etc… they have soccer cricket and swimming. Not ALL but most. There not the richest, it’s just that lack of other places to dump money seems like the richest. Take away our MLB, NBA, all college sports, all golf and only give us a few football teams that 150 million people root for one team and 150 million people root for the other, and then America would be the richest:
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:52 pm to JayAg
Soccer will always be a girls sport to me.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:54 pm to Saskwatch
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South Carolina and kentucky
If memory serves, Florida has (had) one, as well.
SC's is a vestige of its prior membership in the ACC, where soccer is a varsity sport. In the past, the team has been moderately successful, but without a title. Hired a former English club manager a couple of years back, but hasn't had much success within that model.
As an undergrad, went to several games. It was well attended, and a good time.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 8:06 pm to RoyalAir
I don't know if we ever had a varsity soccer team. I just looked it up and apparently we have a successful club soccer team, which is supposedly the oldest soccer club in the USA. 
We used to have a varsity wrestling team but I think it fell victim to title ix.
We used to have a varsity wrestling team but I think it fell victim to title ix.
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 8:17 pm to bigDgator
I remember watching Deion’s intro presser (one of them) where he promised Colorado to do all he can do to get them a baseball team. I had a, “wait, not all Power Conference teams play baseball?” moment.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 8:22 pm to JayAg
Chicken need to combine the Aggie and soccer board.
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