the sec should have division 1 lacrosse

UF does have it.

We actually have a dedicated lacrosse stadium too.

Title IX is preventing the growth of D1 men's lacrosse. When they figure out how to get around that, the sport will boom even more than it already is.

Lacrosse is weak. Quidditch is where at.

Its a good sport, and title 9 is screwing many mens sports.

However i think wrestling should be the next sport. Mizzou has a top 10of program, and the state of Georgia and florida have great talent pools to pull from ntm all of the kids schools could recruit from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Due to the weather alone.

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ntm all of the kids schools could recruit from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Due to the weather alone.

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Good luck with that. Wrestlers are a different breed and are blue collar guys.

No. The SEC should have men's soccer teams. Frick lacrosse.

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Good luck with that. Wrestlers are a different breed and are blue collar guys.

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Yep. The SEC would get all the leftover Ohio and Pennsylvania guys after the northeast/midwest schools pick and choose the ones they want.

Title IX

I think Title IX has outlived it's usefullness. Women's sports are established now, all it does is hurt minor men's sports. All they would need to do is make an exemption for football and it would be fine since you will never have women's football and making up those 85 scholarships is a killer.

I've always felt this hurts soccer the most. The US could dominate the world in soccer except you can't get a scholarship to play it outside of a handful of schools. Thus kids stop playing soccer after elementary school here for the most part. It's esp tragic imo because it could provide opportunity to a lot of poor Hispanics. I remember growing up as a kid in San Antonio and we had a really good soccer team. Then we played a team from South San Antonio where only a few of the kids even spoke English. I think we lost 13-0 and it could have been worse. Those kids grow up on Soccer and they are fast and talented, they just don't have the size for college football for the most part and the programs simply aren't in place. In Texas you have only a handful of FBS College players from South of San Antonio and that includes the South part of town. Even fewer basketball players. If they had a chance to get a soccer scholarship though and the schools focused on it? It would provide a huge opportunity for a lot of very poor kids to go to college.

As to the OP, Lacrosse has definitely grown in popularity in Texas as well. We have had a huge influx of East Coasters over the last 30 years and they have brought their love for the sport. At my son's middle school they have lacrosse but no baseball for instance.

there is no D1 teams in the SEC. to be D1, you have to be governed by the NCAA. UF has a women's team, and USC is starting a women's team. you won't see it become an SEC sport until it first becomes a Women's SEC sport (like W-Soccer). Also, the high school sport has to be more developed in SEC states before you can start D1 programs. (if SEC starts teams, they plan to win). But the big problem w/ Lacrosse is that it's a 11.2 scholarship sport like baseball, so it will take more than money to compete. that's why Townson State can compete w/ UVA and Maryland. And schools like Duke, UNC, UVA will have the academic advantage to recruit the top players from the northeast.

but what may be the game changer in lacrosse is football players playing the sport. in SC, my nephew's high school won the Lacrosse state championship for 5 years in row. the coach has tried to get football players to play the spring sport, but the football coach was reluctant. now, some of them are playing and they are dominating w/ little experience.