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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5236538, member: 1023"] Lacrosse is a sport that does zero for northeastern schools that a not power schools. I’d be more accurate to say aren’t located in Canada. Over and over I read nonsense about how big lacrosse is going to be, then I look at attendance data and it is in the 100s not even the 1000s. I’ve been to Central Footbsll and basketball games. Pretty solid FCS crowd in football. I’d guess 4000. Good crowd, band all around fun experience. Basketball was the same. Not a sellout but solid attendance. And people were into it. I’m not sure why people think students, alumni or the general public will care about lacrosse or even soccer. The reality is that neither one draw flies nor generate even modest interest. CCSU probably draws more fans to a football game than any of the D1 lacrosse programs in the state do in a season. As far as dropping down to D3, in part I blame the NCAA rule. I’m not sure why a school ought not play D2 or D3 football and D1 in other sports, or frankly not play D1 football and Basketball and D3 in hockey and lacrosse. UConn did that in hockey for decades. It was fine. I suspect it will be the smaller private schools that are the biggest wave of teams dropping down. I also wonder if at some point the “elite” privates like the Ivies and the Patriot just say the heck with all of you and form their own entity with their own rules. Princeton will still be Princeton even if it doesn’t play in the NCAA tournament. I could even see a Georgetown being tempted by such an arrangement. [/QUOTE]

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