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re: Big 12 Adds Lacrosse 2024
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:21 am to hoopsgalore
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:21 am to hoopsgalore
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I'm sorry but top lacrosse players from the Mid-Atlantic, New England prep schools, California, and Colorado are not going to Kentucky, Mississippi State, Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, etc., etc.
i knew a ton of lax guys in high school that got recruited to mostly lower-level d-1 or d-2 schools. A few players from Texas would make it somewhere like UNC or whatever. A lot of the best players just drop it after high school cause it is more fun to enjoy college than move halfway across the country to still pay for school and play a sport.
I am willing to bet if somewhere like Texas or UGA picked up men's lacrosse they could build a very solid program over a decade or so.
Even if like Ole Miss or USC picked up, you can recruit the kids without the grades for most of the elite programs and still offer the SEC party school lifestyle. They won't be elite but it would be interesting to see.
This post was edited on 11/10/23 at 9:24 am
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Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:33 am to Dire Wolf
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I'm sorry but top lacrosse players from the Mid-Atlantic, New England prep schools, California, and Colorado are not going to Kentucky, Mississippi State, Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, etc., etc.
The 2021 and 2022 winner of the women’s lacrosse equivalent of the Heisman is a Texas girl. She would have played in Texas if the opportunity was there.
Texas kids are all over the rosters of the top programs in men’s and women’s lax - not as roster fillers, but as their starters.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:35 am to Pvt Hudson
it's only a matter of time unless sec teams can't afford it
lacrosse starting to catch on down south
lacrosse starting to catch on down south
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:55 am to Dire Wolf
Texas, Georgia, vandy, and florida could probably build decent teams.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 10:06 am to justaniceguy
Vandy and Florida have teams (women’s). Florida is pretty good - getting the experience it takes to make deep playoff runs. Agree that Georgia could build a very good team based on the strength of the HS programs there -
Posted on 11/10/23 at 10:11 am to Pvt Hudson
If Georgia high schools are getting big into lacrosse like texas is that will help. I think academics alone could help. Who knows. Maybe one of these 4 teams could win a championship some day (in men’s that is)
Posted on 11/10/23 at 1:02 pm to hoopsgalore
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I'm sorry but top lacrosse players from the Mid-Atlantic, New England prep schools, California, and Colorado are not going to Kentucky, Mississippi State, Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, etc., etc.
Those types of kids absolutely will. The WLAX & MLAX landscapes have already proven it. Florida promoted their women's club team to D1 & made the Final 4 inside of 4 years.
Utah added the sport for men's & are bringing loads of east coasters out west.
A massive reason they go to the new programs is to make an immediate impact & get as close to 4 years of playing time as they can get. Too many rosters are loaded up with 45-55+ players where it takes 1-2 years of scout team to ever see the field. The SEC would immediately attract top prospects & give them a place to build programs foundations.
Lacrosse players, especially men's, are mostly all going to grad school. Where they get their bachelor's degree will not matter as much as it used to for their post collegiate goals.
TX, GA, FL, AL, & even Arkansas are dotting + filling out D1 D2 & D3 rosters all over. The talent is here. And when the SEC adds lacrosse, someday, that talent is going to flourish. Imagine all of the LA football talent that DOESN'T go on to play college football. Now out a lacrosse stick in their hands in 7th grade & have them play football + lacrosse through high school...those kids will have doors open for them that 100,000s before them never had.
Also - men's pro players all make more money now than they ever did thanks to the PLL. That $ figure is only going to keep growing. Playing for a season & putting on clinics/camps in your own name earns pro players over $100,000/yr these days. Which is amazing for the guys that DON'T want a high pressure 9-5 finance job, typical of the lacrosse player pedigree.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 4:45 pm to hoopsgalore
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I'm sorry but top lacrosse players from the Mid-Atlantic, New England prep schools, California, and Colorado are not going to Kentucky, Mississippi State, Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, etc., etc.
Florida? Georgia? Vanderbilt? Could see these three being solid destinations - Georgia does put out a number of D1 players from the private schools, but you aren't going to evaporate Maryland, UVA, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, ND, Michigan, Penn State, Yale, Penn, UNC, etc.
After 5-10 years of the Big 12 + SEC = you won't need the elite prep school kids. Once the massive 5A & 6A high schools start fielding teams = the talent levels will rise & the numbers of available players will fill rosters & dominate.
Just you wait until Texas, Alabama, Georgia, & Florida kids who are traditionally football players end up a multisport athletes in lacrosse. They're going to run circles around those prep school white boys.
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