Comments on: Top 25 College Football Schools: Do They Offer Lacrosse?

By: Michael Jones

Michael Jones — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:04:00 +0000

Stanford needs to make a team. Get four or six of these schools to go D1 and the domino effect will occur.

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By: autoeng

autoeng — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:36:00 +0000

Only because Southern Cal is in the penalty box is why they aren’t on this list. They added the women and probably could find the resources. If Stanford goes it would make for a great Cal rivalry.

By: Alex Perry

Alex Perry — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:51:00 +0000

http://laxteams.net/oulacrosse/contact.html
Lots of good guys on the team, Head Coach Mark Purcell and Team President Matt Hawkins are great people to talk to

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By: bhsvideodad

bhsvideodad — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Going D1 faces three obstacles out west, money, fan interest and Title IX. Few school have the lacrosse resources the John Paul assembled in Michigan, especially the supportive (financial) alumni. Lacosse west of the Mississippi remains a niche game that a small number love. The Grow the game effort is working, but the time constant is likely to be long.

Where did you get the idea that Uncle Phil runs Oregon athletics? Oh yeah, I remember now.

By: ConnorWilsonLAS

ConnorWilsonLAS — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:34:00 +0000

Well if I were you, I’d reach out to the MCLA team at OU. See if they’re willing to do clinics for kids to learn the game. Then YOU would have to find those kids. Maybe they’d be your age, maybe younger. But the point is to get as many kids out there as possible. Ask the OU team to bring extra sticks for the kids to use and return. Then if they’re hooked, hand them an info sheet with a link to where they can buy a good cheap stick, and keep the clinics rolling from there!

It would take a lot of work, but if you are willing to be the guy who does it (someone has to!), the next HS laxer to move to Norman might not be in the same situation. We’re always down to talk more in-depth so hit us up with questions right here and we’ll try to make this happen with you!

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:29:00 +0000

I am a high school lacrosse player who just moved to Norman, Oklahoma (OU) and none of the schools here have any teams, the only lacrosse programs are in Oklahoma City and In Edmund. I play in Edmund but have to drive an hour to get there. I could go on and on about the lack of lax in OK but I dont want to bore you. please give any ideas on how to bring lacrosse to norman. thank you

By: Steve Blair

Steve Blair — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:52:00 +0000

I don’t think Title IX is really an issue, I think it is often the scapegoat to the real issue:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704224004574489281301154084.html

I am sure every AD in the country is just dying to lose $640k a year on a lacrosse team.

By: Hsjfhjf123

Hsjfhjf123 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:56:00 +0000

what these schools needs is 2 sport guys that maybe play lax and football to bring lax into the main picture at these schools

By: Midwesterner

Midwesterner — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:51:00 +0000

Exactly! It’s all about money. Every time this discussion comes up people start chiming in with “wouldn’t it be cool if school X…” or “I think school Y is going to…” Colorado, which someone mentioned above, is a good example. Yes the sport is getting pretty big in Colorado. Yes CU has very few varsity sports. But the questions still remains…how can they do it? They don’t have the money. CU athletics, like most athletic departments, loses money.

By: Tim Haslam

Tim Haslam — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:17:00 +0000

Not sure if it’s true or not, just throwing it out there for discussion.

By: Alex Perry

Alex Perry — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:54:00 +0000

Fun Fact about U of Oklahoma – The athletic director is a UMD alum and loves Lacrosse, just fighting title IX and the funding battle…maybe in a couple years, or once that school in ATX adds the sport they’ll get going

At the Youth/HS lax Level, Oklahoma did just launch their first High School Lax associations (includes Wichita and NW Arkansas). Not that great, but they have a few good coaches and a lot of good people getting the leagues up and running. A LOT of growing pains between now and the next step but they’re headed in the right direction.

Also before i moved away from OK two years ago, There were a lot of rumors about D3 schools looking to add lax in the near future, not sure where that stands today…

By: Steve Blair

Steve Blair — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:51:00 +0000

I think there is absolutely no way that Northwestern gets a NCAA team in the next 15 years. Adding a lacrosse team has little to nothing to do with location/women’s programs. It comes down to one thing, money. Teams that make more can afford to throw money in the toilet by adding a NCAA men’s lacrosse team. No one likes to hear it, but NCAA women’s golf has better margins than men’s lacrosse. In the Big Ten (or Twelve, or whatever) the top three profit earning universities, based on 2010 profits from the only two college sports that generate profits, were Penn State, Michigan, and Ohio State in that order. Coincidence? Hardly. Northwestern ranked 11th, only beating out Purdue. If you were going to put money on the next Big Ten school to add an NCAA program, it would be Michigan State who ranked 4th in the Big Ten generating about $35m last year.