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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 2494590, member: 71"] FD, hope you had a great holiday. Actually there is sufficient available capacity (in terms of scholarships and total participation) in existing women's sports (track & field, volleyball, rowing, cross country) that we could add men's lacrosse without sacrificing another men's sport or adding women's sports. The thing is there would be a substantial cost in coaching (men's lacrosse and possibly additional staff for some existing women's sports), scholarships (male & female) and recruiting (including the needed additional participation in women's sports). Hathaway didn't have the initiative or imagination to consider something like adding men's lacrosse (unfortunately for us, he was the last AD who reasonably had the opportunity). Significant contributions (sustained six figure donations, earmarked just for this undertaking) will be necessary to pull this off. Adding to this, someone may be willing to earmark donations for men's lacrosse but may not like the idea of their contributions going to add women's rowing scholarships necessary to allow for the men's lacrosse addition. [/QUOTE]