The run since G'Town is huge.
I'm still not sold on this non-tourney tournament (since it counts for nothing save for teams that need it): Too many tough back-end games as Matty Ward brought up.
Convince Stanford to add a guy's lax team to get to six. Or pry Johns Hopkins away from the B1G: they have more in common with the Lax-playing ACC schools.
way they fund what sports they have is with their endowment. There is little alumni and local support for the ACC on the west coast so more teams that lose money and create more travel issues is a non starter. The article attached below entitled "Cal/Stanford carry budget shortfalls as they prepare to enter the ACC with partial revenue shares" was written just 2 days ago. Article probably firewalled unless you get the PAC12 hotline.
But Stanford won’t be starting another varsity sport anytime soon. They have a hard enough time maintaining the ones they have.
to become an affiliate member like they are with the B1G and the ACC said no. So they went to the B1G instead.
Edited to add: this was prior to UMd moving over to the B1G.
Hopkins without Maryland.
As for Stanford, they check a lot of the boxes for adding a men's lacrosse team. Specifically, the Title IX considerations are extremely limited for a FBS school, given: (1) the overall number of sports Stanford sponsors (rendering the additional scholarships a new sport would require of relatively little significance from a Title IX perspective; (2) Stanford's robust participation in women's sports; and (3) a favorable male:female enrollment ratio from a Title IX perspective (IIRC, it's 53:47, which mirrors ND). Further, men's lacrosse would seem to be an institutional fit for Stanford, and there's enough talent on the west coast to make Stanford competitive in relatively short order. The problem, as you mentioned, is money, and given Stanford's location, some of the costs associated with a lacrosse startup (e.g., travel) would be considerably higher than they would be at many other schools.
..because that last paragraph was meant as a throwaway. As Flanner96 brought up, I could've added "Clemson adding a men's lax team," as well. (Clemson probably offered a women's lax team up to meet Title IX requirements and/or a way to draw more women from the northeast and Middle Atlantic States (it's working...Clemson's pretty good for such a young program)
No, I never expect Stanford to field a men's team.
But I still don't get that JHU thing....
It sits right on a lake. I would think it would be shortsighted to think that only the women’s team would use it
...announcing that Clemson was going to start a men's team. I admit, I was fooled momentarily.