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Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
(09-19-2017 12:01 PM)NoDak Wrote: Baseball doesn't have a conference problem, but it will be funded by community efforts, not by Akron U.
Kent St, C Mich, Cleveland St, and Detroit have women's lax, so a new conference might not be far off.
http://www.gozips.com/news/2017/9/19/gen...rosse.aspx
They all play in the Atlantic Sun which, if Akron joined, would have 13 members along with the planned addition of Kent St in 2018-2019. The MAC should sponsor women's lacrosse.
MAC: Akron, Kent St, Central Michigan, Old Dominion, Detroit Mercy, Howard, Delaware St
A-Sun: Jacksonville, Coastal Carolina, Mercer, Furman, Stetson, Kennesaw St
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
Outstanding approach to funding mostly non revenue sports. Perhaps it can be applied by other universities to sports that have either been contracted or those like LaCrosse that could be added cost effectively
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
(09-19-2017 12:52 PM)BePcr07 Wrote: (09-19-2017 12:01 PM)NoDak Wrote: Baseball doesn't have a conference problem, but it will be funded by community efforts, not by Akron U.
Kent St, C Mich, Cleveland St, and Detroit have women's lax, so a new conference might not be far off.
http://www.gozips.com/news/2017/9/19/gen...rosse.aspx
They all play in the Atlantic Sun which, if Akron joined, would have 13 members along with the planned addition of Kent St in 2018-2019. The MAC should sponsor women's lacrosse.
MAC: Akron, Kent St, Central Michigan, Old Dominion, Detroit Mercy, Howard, Delaware St
A-Sun: Jacksonville, Coastal Carolina, Mercer, Furman, Stetson, Kennesaw St
Guess the SoCon women's lax conference has already been announced, as Wofford has added women's lax.
SoCon: Furman, Mercer, Wofford, C Mich, Delaware St, Detroit
That league will probably add Akron as an affiliate, although Kent St will join the A SUN.
Didn't realize Cleveland St only added men's lax
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
ASUN and SoCon have a lacrosse alliance. SoCon sponsors the men and ASUN sponsors the women. This is similar to the ASUN - Big South football agreement.
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
(09-19-2017 12:01 PM)NoDak Wrote: Baseball doesn't have a conference problem, but it will be funded by community efforts, not by Akron U.
Kent St, C Mich, Cleveland St, and Detroit have women's lax, so a new conference might not be far off.
http://www.gozips.com/news/2017/9/19/gen...rosse.aspx
How about some context....
Quote:Director of Athletics Larry Williams today announced their intention to recommend a novel, community support-backed effort...
"Intention to recommend" isn't anywhere close to the same thing as "will be funded".
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
are both sports currently club sports?
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
(09-19-2017 08:38 PM)gosports1 Wrote: are both sports currently club sports?
Both don’t exist right now, and both may never start. Zero money has been raised as right now. There is a lot of talk for baseball in a conference that really doesn’t care about it.
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
(09-19-2017 08:58 PM)utpotts Wrote: (09-19-2017 08:38 PM)gosports1 Wrote: are both sports currently club sports?
Both don’t exist right now, and both may never start. Zero money has been raised as right now. There is a lot of talk for baseball in a conference that really doesn’t care about it.
The MAC used to require baseball, but that stipulation was dropped before Akron dropped it.
A school wouldn't put out a press release like they did unless it had reasonable assurances that the money will be there.
Buffalo had to pour money into a baseball facilities and start a team as a condition of getting in.
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
(09-19-2017 09:28 PM)NoDak Wrote: (09-19-2017 08:58 PM)utpotts Wrote: (09-19-2017 08:38 PM)gosports1 Wrote: are both sports currently club sports?
Both don’t exist right now, and both may never start. Zero money has been raised as right now. There is a lot of talk for baseball in a conference that really doesn’t care about it.
The MAC used to require baseball, but that stipulation was dropped before Akron dropped it.
A school wouldn't put out a press release like they did unless it had reasonable assurances that the money will be there.
Buffalo had to pour money into a baseball facilities and start a team as a condition of getting in.
It’s obvious you’ve never been to Akron.
Even the guys on zipsnation.org believe this won’t happen. You can also send out a wordy press release to dig up money too.
Their trying to crowdfund both of these programs.
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
(09-19-2017 10:05 PM)utpotts Wrote: (09-19-2017 09:28 PM)NoDak Wrote: (09-19-2017 08:58 PM)utpotts Wrote: (09-19-2017 08:38 PM)gosports1 Wrote: are both sports currently club sports?
Both don’t exist right now, and both may never start. Zero money has been raised as right now. There is a lot of talk for baseball in a conference that really doesn’t care about it.
The MAC used to require baseball, but that stipulation was dropped before Akron dropped it.
A school wouldn't put out a press release like they did unless it had reasonable assurances that the money will be there.
Buffalo had to pour money into a baseball facilities and start a team as a condition of getting in.
It’s obvious you’ve never been to Akron.
Even the guys on zipsnation.org believe this won’t happen. You can also send out a wordy press release to dig up money too.
Their trying to crowdfund both of these programs.
It's not implausible that the President mostly wants to shut up people hassling him about restarting baseball. "Yes, we have a plan in place for that, based on a community supported model. How much can I put you down for?"
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
Isn't Cleveland State wrestling on the same "community funded" model?
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
(09-20-2017 06:28 AM)chargeradio Wrote: Isn't Cleveland State wrestling on the same "community funded" model?
Many of the Kent State programs are on that model, but it was rather raising scholarship endowments for existing programs than starting a new team and restarting a canceled team on Kickstarter.
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RE: Akron adds back baseball but this time with women's lax
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