NoDak
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RE: St Bonaventure to add men's lax in 2019, A10 will be at 4 teams
St Bonaventure will be joining the MACC for men’s lacrosse next spring.
http://gobonnies.sbu.edu/sports/m-lacros...0618erpwhf
Detroit Mercy is also a member for men’s lax only.
Niagara and Iona have women’s lax but not men’s. Fairfield men’s lacrosse play in the CAA as an affiliate.
Strange that Rider and St Peters don’t offer any lax.
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RE: St Bonaventure to add men's lax in 2019, A10 will be at 4 teams
(03-24-2017 12:19 AM)NoDak Wrote: (03-23-2017 11:54 PM)trephin Wrote: (03-23-2017 11:06 PM)NoDak Wrote: 50 students is almost 3% of enrollment. For small private schools, that can be a big deal. At public schools doesn't mean anything, except more scholarship costs and Title IX issues. Lax players often take their friends and gfs with them. With less than 12 scholarships, players will have to come up with 3/4ers of the tuition from other sources. Football has a much higher startup up costs and more coaches to pay. Lax probably means $1.2 mill in extra tuition.
LOL. Lax players often take their friends and gfs with them? Seriously? You're claiming that as part of the "enrollment plan" of adding lacrosse? Never mind whether high school students are any more likely to attend a school because someone in their circle will play lacrosse at a school...
Scholarship limit is 12.6 for men.
I have no doubt football startup and ongoing costs are higher. Not sure what that has to do with the discussion.
SBU is one of the smallest of the small schools though. 50 would be on the high side for a roster but even so, it just seems 35-50 students per class isn't exactly something any school couldn't increase merely by accepting more students without having to startup a new sport. Are there any schools that aren't rejecting more qualified candidates than they are accepting?
Have talked to enrollment directors. At non-Ivy type schools, they like popular jocks because they often bring friends with them with no scholarship inducements.
Continue to laugh, but Google this and you will find plenty of confirmations about lax and non-scholarship football as enrollment increasers which subsequently increase revenues. Public schools have entirely different reasons to add those sports.
You're right about this in general. Lots of D-3 schools use this strategy. I know some legit schools (not diploma mills) where 1/3 of their students plays college athletics.
But I had no idea that St. Bonaventure was in that bad of a spot. I looked it up and WOW. Only 1,660 undergrads! That's dangerous for a school with only a $60 million endowment.
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07-09-2018 09:19 AM |
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