Lacrosse

[Toyota12]

After watching Denver win the NCAA Lacrosse Championship. It makes me think what a school BU would be for a Division 1 Program. Private schools without football are perfect schools for expansion. Just a conversation starter!

[tornado]

Lacrosse is a pretty expensive sport plus the travel - so right now I suspect it would add to our athletic budget owes..
plus we couldn't add men's lacrosse without adding women's also due to this unfortunate arrangement by our government
They pretty much blame Title IX for the failure of lacrosse to grow & expand -

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/title-ix-still-restricting-growth-of-lacrosse-at-the-collegiate-level/8538

"But this proportionality prong has created a quota system that forces
Division I-A ..athletic directors to either double their financial burden if they
want to add a men??™s lacrosse team, because a corresponding women??™s sport
must be added in order to maintain compliance with Title IX, or not add the
sport at all. To date, the decision among many FBS schools outside the
Eastern Seaboard has been that lacrosse isn't worth the financial hassle.

???If somebody can figure out how to resolve the conundrum of Title IX, put a
trademark on it, because you??™ll be a very rich person..."

[bradleyfan124]

Ok Let me throw out another idea for a sport: Men's Volleyball. Loyola has it and does well at it. Help curb the expense by scheduling and traveling with the women's Volleyball

[Da Coach]

I don't think that travel solution would work. I do not think any of the schools the women's team plays has men's volleyball.
There are only a small handful of mid-western schools that play Division I volleyball-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_men%27s_volleyball_schools

[tornado]

you gotta remember - Bradley is in the mode of cutting sports not adding....just since 2001 we have dropped Men's swimming & diving, Women's swimming & diving, men's tennis..and perhaps others - anyone recall?
we're already "tricking the system" just to keep 14 "different sports" - using all our men's & women's Cross Country athletes and renaming them "the Men's and women's track team"..
why would we do that if we had the resources to add more sports..

[Toyota12]

Lacrosse

My idea of Lacrosse was because it would be a lot less expensive to ad than Football and be an additional spring sport and you could use the one of 2 fields at the University! BU already has a club team also. Plus the growth in the Midwest is booming.

[Rhino65]

There's a club lacrosse team that was started a couple of years ago which I thought had some sort of plan to end up D1 at some point. Women's soccer seems like a logical choice to add as well. Not sure if it would be a plausible addition though. The club hockey team also has been pretty successful and draw decent crowds so that may also be an option. Budgetary issues probably won't allow a new program to start for a while but I'm sure it's at least been discussed.

[Da Coach]

Plus, there are a lot of high schools in the Chicago area that play HS Lacrosse (well over 80 schools are members of the Illinois High School Lacrosse Association), and it might not be hard to recruit good players to be competitive quickly.

[Old Coach]

There's a club lacrosse team that was started a couple of years ago which I thought had some sort of plan to end up D1 at some point. Women's soccer seems like a logical choice to add as well. Not sure if it would be a plausible addition though. The club hockey team also has been pretty successful and draw decent crowds so that may also be an option. Budgetary issues probably won't allow a new program to start for a while but I'm sure it's at least been discussed.

If I had the $2 million per year just laying around, I'd gladly fund a D-I hockey program at Bradley.

Here is a great article about the state of amateur hockey in Illinois.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-illinois-no-college-hockey-spt-1005-20140927-story.html#page=1

Sixty-six players in college hockey last season were from Illinois, ranking the state sixth nationally, according to College Hockey Inc. That marks a 53 percent growth rate over the last decade.
Nine Illinois natives are on the six Big Ten hockey rosters: four at Wisconsin, two at Michigan and one each at Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State (Minnesota is the sixth team).
Division I hockey's 59 programs are concentrated in only 19 states, and none of the states without a team produces as many players as Illinois.

"If you took just a team of Illinois players and projected it, it would be favored to win the national championship," said Mike Snee, executive director of College Hockey Inc.

[tornado]

If I had the $2 million per year just laying around,...

If I had $2 million laying around, I'd "find a way" to lure & land about a dozen Top 100 recruits (we all how that really works) and then go get to the Final Four!