(05-14-2014 10:24 AM)ivet Wrote: (05-14-2014 10:16 AM)superdeluxe Wrote: Umm, dude your evidence of 'I talked to a couple of my buddies' means jack no offense, Lacrosse is pretty popular in Washington state and continues to grow. It is not a Rich area/private school league, maybe it was 20 years ago, but things change.
You are in DC, Do you really think you know more about what the kids are playing than people actually living here?
Then why isnt lacrosse a seasonal sport for all high school players like it is over here? why are there only a few colleges in the West coast offer it?
I can't work out what positions you two are arguing ... whether women's LAX is in the same position in the West as it was a decade ago, whether women's LAX have some areas of rapid growth in popularity in the West, or whether women's LAX is entrenched in the West in the same way it is on the East Coast.
Its like an argument between "LAX is growing in popularity in the West" and "LAX has not reach {fill_in_the_blank} levels of popularity in areas I am familiar with", where given a sport growing very rapidly from a very small base, both can be true at the same time.
Actually, I remember soccer arguments like this from back in the days of USENET News.
Quote: heck it would benefit all the West coast colleges to have a Womens Lax to offset Mens football.
But if they already have their TitleIX offset sports in place from two to four decades ago, they don't need to add a sport for that.
They only need a new TitleIX offset sport if they want to add a new men's sport, or else if they want to start giving full scholarships in men's sports that they offer under the limit.
Quote: Do you know what conference University of Denver's Lacrosse team is in? They joined the Big East. Do they not have enough schools in the west coast or is it more of a competitive thing- or both?
That's a competition and conference realignment thing, on the men's lacrosse side ... Denver was playing club Lacrosse since the 60's, and was a founding member of Great Western Lacrosse, together with Air Force, OSU, Michigan State, Notre Dame and Butler in 1994, though it didn't start playing full Division 1 until 1999. The GWLL had several membership changes to hold six members for AQ due to schools dropping the sport until Notre Dame left and the five remaining members joined the ECAC en masse, replacing the three Big East schools who left when their main conference sponsored Lacrosse.
When the New Big East formed, they needed a sixth program for AQ, and the ECAC was rumored to again be under the gun (rumors which proved accurate later the same year when the Buckeyes and TSUN announced they would be leaving to join the new Big Ten Lacrosse for 2014/15), the Big East offered Denver a stable all-sports conference sponsoring Lacrosse and Denver offer the Big East an established program and a sixth school for AQ.
But the Women's Lacrosse programs of the Big East and the American conference decided to play together in a single conference, with six programs for an AQ, and the Big East did not require the Denver women's team to come along. So Denver women's Lacrosse remains in the MPSF, along with Cal, Colorado, Fresno State, Oregon, St. Mary's, SDSU, Stanford, UC Davis, and USC.