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whaler11 said:
Well if you need 2 million a year to operate it’s at least that much. It’s 26 scholarships + everything else that goes into running a program.
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It is not 26 scholarships its 12 or 13 full scholarships that's the rules (12.6 actually from what I recall) - it's typically broken up in halves and quarters. NCAA teams are bound by this - you hurt your argument when you make things up.

i could care less if UCONN has a program because the idea that in-state kids or kids in close proximity are going to flock to Storrs to play lacrosse is unlikely - a kid or two sure, but disabuse yourself of the notion that UCONN is getting 3 kids every year from New Canaan, Wilton, Yorktown, Lakeland, Garden City, Melville, etc. - that is a pipe dream for a start up program, especially when you'll not be the main attraction on campus.

The attendance argument is asinine because if you judged sports on attendance you'd have two sports at most schools - football and basketball. Baseball is no draw either - UCONN isn't in the top 25 in attendance - christ Miami is 25th in attendance in baseball and they average 2,600 per game that's a real show stopper there - a whole 2,600 per game.

Lacrosse makes as much sense as any other and here's the key - NON-REVENUE sport - I could argue either side of the issue, but christ be factual.
 
Northbound said:
It is not 26 scholarships its 12 or 13 full scholarships that's the rules (12.6 actually from what I recall) - it's typically broken up in halves and quarters. NCAA teams are bound by this - you hurt your argument when you make things up.

i could care less if UCONN has a program because the idea that in-state kids or kids in close proximity are going to flock to Storrs to play lacrosse is unlikely - a kid or two sure, but disabuse yourself of the notion that UCONN is getting 3 kids every year from New Canaan, Wilton, Yorktown, Lakeland, Garden City, Melville, etc. - that is a pipe dream for a start up program, especially when you'll not be the main attraction on campus.

The attendance argument is asinine because if you judged sports on attendance you'd have two sports at most schools - football and basketball. Baseball is no draw either - UCONN isn't in the top 25 in attendance - christ Miami is 25th in attendance in baseball and they average 2,600 per game that's a real show stopper there - a whole 2,600 per game.

Lacrosse makes as much sense as any other and here's the key - NON-REVENUE sport - I could argue either side of the issue, but christ be factual.
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Plus 13 for the women for IX

13+13=26

Did I make up addition? Bully for me.
 
whaler11 said:
No offense but if you believe stuff like that
you should sit conversations like this out.

There are 58 million in expenses not allocated by sport. Guess what! A couple of million goes to men’s lacrosse.

You can’t even gas up the busses for 200k.

It wouldn’t even pay the head coach:
Virginia men’s lacrosse coach Dom Starsia signed new five-year contract in January
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Agree to disagree but I see your point. My agrument was sidelining golf and swimming for lacrosse would not be financially painful. Golf is a very expensive sport and swimming covers the number of players required to field. The website I provided is a government website that shows the costs it takes to run each sport. The salary for lacrosse is not really the issue seeing as the best coach in the country earns $250k, which was an increase from $150k.

To end... it’s not going to happen because there might be too much start up costs associated with the change. As mentioned before a high priced donor would be required.
 
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Austin316 said:
Agree to disagree but I see your point. My agrument was sidelining golf and swimming for lacrosse would not be financially painful. Golf is a very expensive sport and swimming covers the number of players required to field. The website I provided is a government website that shows the costs it takes to run each sport. The salary for lacrosse is not really the issue seeing as the best coach in the country earns $250k, which was an increase from $150k.

To end... it’s not going to happen because there might be too much start up costs associated with the change. As mentioned before a high priced donor would be required.
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You are 100% totally wrong. Doubling down is a totally BY thing to do.

Those schools spend millions on lacrosse.
 
whaler11 said:
At least two million. 13 scholarships and the coaches are 7 figures before you even have a practice.
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Earlier you said 26 scholarships. Get your facts straight. Christ can you stop making sheet up?
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Earlier you said 26 scholarships. Get your facts straight. Christ can you stop making sheet up?
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I credited the Hoos the 13 Title IX scholarships to make it less embarrassing for everyone involved.
 
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Man. Whaler and Serrano are ignoring the fact that if we get a team next year we will build a wall around Fairfield County and win the 2016 national championship and play every game before a sellout crowd at the Rent. And they will have to expand it for all the growth.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
My top 3 reasons (in no particular order):

We have no money.
We are broke.
We can’t afford it.

Those reasons aside:

Lacrosse is terrible. Slightly more exciting than soccer.

It’s a niche sport played predominantly by rich white kids.

There are probably 20 people who would care and half of them already posted in this thread.

Have I mentioned that we don’t have the money?
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Actually, lacrosse is much more interesting than soccer. People score far more. It’s much faster.
Girls lacrosse is much better than girls basketball... there, I said it. I’d rather watch women’s lax than basketball.
Granted, my 13 YO plays and when she’s running backwards and throws a pass and another catches it while running, it’s a thing of beauty. Really a very cool sport.
 
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We should add the old ball game of the ancient Mayans. I don't know what it's called, but losers got their head chopped off.
 
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