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re: Why don't most SEC universities compete in men's soccer?
Posted on 12/5/21 at 12:57 pm to Tillman
Posted on 12/5/21 at 12:57 pm to Tillman
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Why don't most SEC universities compete in men's soccer?
Because its not very popular in the South. Also, your woke schools with soccer, will eventually want to change the name to football.
There is only and can only be one football. And thats what we play.. Sorry, No soccer for the SEC dude.
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Posted on 12/5/21 at 1:02 pm to Tillman
TITle IX
Posted on 12/5/21 at 1:02 pm to WestRockyTop
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No soccer for the SEC dude.
You should let UofSC and Kentucky know about that.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 1:03 pm to LSU Tiger Eyes
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TITle IX
that doesn't work because colleges with football programs also have men's soccer
Clemson, ND and Washington are in the soccer final 4 starting in Raleigh on Friday.
This post was edited on 12/5/21 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 12/5/21 at 1:22 pm to WestRockyTop
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Because its not very popular in the South.
Soccer is very popular at the high school level in SC and I beleive Clemson typically has one of the largest home crowds in college soccer.
Large colleges like Tenn would have no problem have crowds as large as any other school.
This post was edited on 12/5/21 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 12/5/21 at 1:32 pm to GatorOnAnIsland
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Because most of us dont want to watch a bunch of guys run around for who knows how many minutes ( only the refs know what time is left on the clock) and fall down and cry
You mean fall down and cry like OM, and UT football teams
Posted on 12/5/21 at 1:33 pm to mrbroker
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Would be a loss in revenue is my assumption
In the current iteration I’m sure it does lose revenue. I’m sure some baseball programs don’t generate revenue either but that’s missing the forest through the trees. If you give it a decade under proper leadership and a reform of the schedule and scholarships I have no doubt in my mind it would be revenue generating overall and something schools wouldn’t want to get rid of. The MLS should have folded in 2001 if the Hunt family didn’t bail them out and now the expansion fee is over $150 million. LA FC has a valuation of $860 million and the league finally generates over a billion annually. Soccer has finally taken a foothold in America and that trend isn’t reversing any time soon.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 3:40 pm to Tillman
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it is hard to compare swim teams with soccer, the most popular sport world wide
Clemson doesn't have a swim team because they made a Title IX decision. SEC teams choose swim.
Soccer is popular because most countries are too poor for NFL, NBA, MLB or NHL.
This post was edited on 12/5/21 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 12/5/21 at 3:42 pm to Tillman
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Why don't most SEC universities compete in men's soccer?
This is the question you came here to ask? Better queries for your free time might be
1. Why am I here?
2. In a league as trash as the ACC why does Clemson suck so bad all of the sudden?
3. Should my mother have aborted me?
Posted on 12/5/21 at 3:59 pm to WestRockyTop
Only sisies play soccer.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 6:58 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Soccer is popular enough at larger high schools in the South, but it still hasn’t filtered down to the others to become the de facto fourth most popular sport in the general population.
Across the country soccer is 4th in population in HS but only 150k behind football which is 2nd in participation. But remember many of the top level players in HS do not play HS and in many cases especially with the National Academy a few years ago were not allowed to participate. Not to mention the elite, especially on the men's side by HS are signing overseas to play pro.
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he South just doesn’t produce enough talent to make it worthwhile.
Not even close to being true.
Texas, GA, FL, and NC are some of the top states in the country for for both boys and girls soccer. Mizzou I read is one of the top 10 for producing pro players.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 7:28 pm to Tillman
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I think it has more to do with SEC programs don't think they can be competitive in men's soccer, because you generally have to recruit a lot of foreign players
Your men's teams currently has 32 players on the roster with only 8 of them are foreign. Four of them started most of the games with another seeing more playing time on the pitch as the season went on.
I understand your football team is in shambles right now and getting ready to finally see the staff leave for better jobs. Now just because CU has made it to the final four, to play ND who already beat them this season, you feel the need some to try and passive troll a football board but sad sort of.
I would wager your were not even alive when CU won those two titles in 1984 & 87
This post was edited on 12/5/21 at 7:29 pm
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