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What would it take for rowing to take off in the US?
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:13 pm
It's a big deal in Europe, especially the UK. College sports are not big over there, but most colleges have teams. The Oxford Boat Races are one of the year's major sporting events.
Can be individual or team
Takes speed, endurance, strength, and coordination
Available to male and female athletes
Visually compelling, and translates well to TV.
Expensive to get into, but I'll bet it costs less than travel ball.
Can be individual or team
Takes speed, endurance, strength, and coordination
Available to male and female athletes
Visually compelling, and translates well to TV.
Expensive to get into, but I'll bet it costs less than travel ball.
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Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:16 pm to Jim Rockford
For ever major sport to somehow fail.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:18 pm to McCaigBro69
It won't
ETA: saw title, came to downvote
ETA: saw title, came to downvote
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:21 pm to Jim Rockford
Let's define "taking off"... a prime time Harvard - Yale regatta on ESPN?
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:22 pm to chalmetteowl
IWWI
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:23 pm to chalmetteowl
It's an elitist sport. For it take off it would need to be popular at the public school level.
This post was edited on 6/26/16 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:33 pm to Jim Rockford
I know UofL has sunk a decent amount of money into their rowing program (their rowing center down on the river was around 2-3 million to build) and it took donations from Brown-Forman to get it done because of lack of athletic funding for the program. That's not including money they put into the program when it was adopted about 10-15 years ago. And that's with the convenience of being located on a major body of water to practice on (Ohio River).
If you want a decent program it's pretty expensive and would depend on some significant private donations which a lot of schools don't have outside of football/basketball.
If you want a decent program it's pretty expensive and would depend on some significant private donations which a lot of schools don't have outside of football/basketball.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:38 pm to Jim Rockford
Global warming to flood the country.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 3:55 pm to Jim Rockford
they would have to use yaks to draw interest in the south... not those stupid long arse viking lookin row boats
Posted on 6/26/16 at 4:02 pm to Jim Rockford
I don't see it happening. The playing field is too large and the crowd wouldn't have a good view of the race.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 4:02 pm to Mr. Hangover
It's just rowing...it's essentially running but on water...and costs about 100 times as much as just running. I don't mind watching it once every 4 years, but I'm a hard out more than that.
If America can't get into soccer, rowing has no fricking chance
If America can't get into soccer, rowing has no fricking chance
Posted on 6/26/16 at 4:02 pm to Jim Rockford
Alligators and sharks in the water
Posted on 6/26/16 at 4:09 pm to Jim Rockford
It does ok in Seattle...
Some rowing related sports history you probably don't know (or care) about:
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Some rowing related sports history you probably don't know (or care) about:
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Posted on 6/26/16 at 4:43 pm to Jim Rockford
For every male's testicles to fall off.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 4:55 pm to Jim Rockford
An act of God.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:09 pm to Jim Rockford
Start allowing them to ram each other with the boats and encourage using the ore as a jousting stick.
Posted on 6/26/16 at 5:14 pm to OhFace55
Little people on PCP.
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