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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3581777, member: 1023"] When the drop hockey and start lacrosse discussion started a few years ago I looked at lax attendance. Atlantic Hockey UConn outdrew almost every New England Lax program except UMass which had just gone to the NCAA title game. Attendance is basically.friends and family. I mean who else is going to sit outside in February to watch an unwatchable sport. And as to being succrssful quickly the UConn hockey East analogy fits I think. It is likely to take 5-10 years to build a significant program. If you are being recruited by Hopkins or Syracuse or Duke and UConn and you are a serious player you aren’t going to UConn. It has taken the Huskies 5 years to get to where kids don’t laugh when they are being recruited by BC or BU or Providence and Cav calls. Lax would have a comparable problem. [/QUOTE]