CanadianDuck
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I was curious if CU had any intention on adding baseball now that it is in the Pac-12? This may have been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything about it.
Start up costs, money loser, lack of ability to get JuCo's in, weather to some, little to no fan support are just off of the top of my head.That leaves me wondering why CU will not add baseball?
Start up costs, money loser, lack of ability to get JuCo's in, weather to some, little to no fan support are just off of the top of my head.
Well weather in Eugene sucks in the spring, but I guess snow is worse then rain. Thanks for the much better answer tini.
With the addition of Women's LAX, are we in good Title X standing to add Men's LAX?
Good info Nik. You are a great hunter-upper of documents; particularly the 1999 proposal for varsity at CU.Not really. That basically got us into good standing. From what I understand, it didn't give us a big cushion. I think we'll still need another women's sport.
Rowing would be a nice option. Very low costs and it delivers 20 women's scholarships. That would probably be the cushion that could get us M-LAX and also get M-Tennis back.
Here's a dated but good article about the Rowing game: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/sports/othersports/28xrowing.html?pagewanted=all
Plus, it's a Pac-12 sport with 7 member programs already competing: http://www.pac-12.org/ABOUT/ParticipatingTeams.aspx
California, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State
The women's club Crew won a national championship as recently as 2009, so we could probably be decent too. Here's a great paper on why women's rowing makes sense at CU as a varsity sport (written in 1999): http://www.coloradocrew.org/varsity-prop.htm
Count me as a supporter of W-Rowing at CU.
I was curious if CU had any intention on adding baseball now that it is in the Pac-12? This may have been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything about it.
I'd like to see us get very good in our current sports before we add more.
Hockey would be awesome! I'd go to every game. I'd be in favor of adding lacrosse too
Lacrosse is a very Eastern US oriented sport. If the Pac were to field some teams, it would help spread the popularity of the game Westward.
Lacrosse is the only 100% completely American sport, BTW. At least that's what I've always been told. Baseball is an offshoot of cricket, football of rugby, basketball? Well, I don't know about basketball. :lol:
Lacrosse is a very Eastern US oriented sport. If the Pac were to field some teams, it would help spread the popularity of the game Westward.
Lacrosse is the only 100% completely American sport, BTW. At least that's what I've always been told. Baseball is an offshoot of cricket, football of rugby, basketball? Well, I don't know about basketball. :lol:
I think Canadians claim they came up with Basketball, but don't quote me on that.
We would have to build new facilities and the spring weather is a big concern
I thought baseball was an offshoot of rounders.
Most Canadians didn't even know that basketball existed before Steve Nash won an MVP. :wink2: