why... DU is sunbelt and WCHA... what about Minnesota or Wisconson WCHA big10... oh how about Michigan, Ohio State, Sparty big10 and CCHA or Notre Lame and the CCHA
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I get that. But, for one, they've been long established in those places. Seondly, They have a full load of varsity sports. CU has the very minimum to maintain D1 status. If they joined the Pac ?, the pressure would be for them to add sports in which they could compete in the Pac ?. Now, if CU had a full plate of sports, then, sure, I could see them adding hockey. But they don't and they won't. Sorry.
I don't see why that would be the case. After football and basketball, I don't think they give 2 sh!ts what sports CU participates in. After all, this is 99% about the money.
The other 1% is about the prestige. So imho they're overjoyed if CU doesn't make them increase travel costs for loss leader sports while we focus on non-revenue sports where we have a chance of winning national championships and placing high in the annual Director's Cup rankings.
(And to please DBT, wrestling may be a sport we would add before hockey. It's cheaper, we'd be competitive and it is a current Pac 10 sport. Be another good use for a reconstructed Balch.)
Deleted member 807
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Hockey in the Pac 16? Really? Hillarious grasp of reality. I have a few more to add to that list:
A Rifle/Shooting team - That'll prove we're not a bunch of hippies, and the nordic team could branch out into the biathalon.
A Velodrome - Boulder is all about biking anyway.
Damn Boulder Creek, build a marina, and dominate in collegate rowing.
Sheesh.
A Rifle/Shooting team - That'll prove we're not a bunch of hippies, and the nordic team could branch out into the biathalon.
A Velodrome - Boulder is all about biking anyway.
Damn Boulder Creek, build a marina, and dominate in collegate rowing.
Sheesh.
superdeluxe
Member
What about lacrosse!
Rowing is a possibility, actually. Only because it's a women's sport that allows up to 20 scholarships per NCAA rules. It's an inexpensive sport that allows a university to look good for what was once called Title IX considerations. KSU, for example, has rowing. They award scholarships to a bunch of girls from in-state even if they have no rowing background but just seem to be good athletes. I'm not sure there's even a body of water near Manhattan where they can train or compete. For CU, I bet we could do something up in Nederland (where Boulder Creek has its headwaters, is already dammed and there's a decent body of water). Failing that, there's always Boulder Reservoir.
Field Hockey's another one that gets used in this way. It's 12 scholarships in a women's sport. Add both of those and you've banked 32 scholarships against men's sports. On the men's side, that would allow Tennis (4.5), Wrestling (9.9) and Hockey (18) for 32.4 scholarships. Men's Soccer is also a 9.9 scholarship sport.
http://www.hsfootballweb.com/ncaa%20scholarships.htm
Mick Ronson
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Barker Res. in Nederland would be COLD year round. Boulder Res would make more sense. One of the racketball courts in the Rec has been converted to a rowing studio with machines, so there is already some kind of organized rowing presence on campus. Field Hockey makes sense to me since equipment costs are virtually nil, we've already got a venue (soccer field) or Franklin...and it elevates our "gentile" yet hairy armpit/prep school girl on girl chic.
ScottyBuff
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Based on the sports that the Pac-10 sponsors, I would think the men/women pairings would be:
Baseball/Softball
Wrestling/Gymnastics
And Swimming/Diving in both, but only 5 Pac-10 teams currently have Men's S&D squads.
Aside from that we would only lack a Men's Tennis team and Men's/Women's Rowing.
The Pac-10 would probably prefer their schools to field powerful teams in other sports beyond their "core group of sports", in order to fit their "Conference of Champions" motto. So CU investing more into the ski teams would be a top priority.
I would be curious if Rugby ever gets NCAA sanctioning, the Pac-10 has some really good club teams in that sport and CU would fit into that as well.
Baseball/Softball
Wrestling/Gymnastics
And Swimming/Diving in both, but only 5 Pac-10 teams currently have Men's S&D squads.
Aside from that we would only lack a Men's Tennis team and Men's/Women's Rowing.
The Pac-10 would probably prefer their schools to field powerful teams in other sports beyond their "core group of sports", in order to fit their "Conference of Champions" motto. So CU investing more into the ski teams would be a top priority.
I would be curious if Rugby ever gets NCAA sanctioning, the Pac-10 has some really good club teams in that sport and CU would fit into that as well.
Varsity Men's Soccer. :nod:
There actually is already a women's crew team as a club sport, probably wouldn't be too hard to convert it to a scholarship sport. That's what they did with women's soccer. One of my roommates for a couple of years was on the women's club soccer team her freshman year and made the D1 team when they converted the following year.
Would be awesome, but would require a brand new facility. I actually like the rowing idea & field hockey. That would bank a ton of Title IX credits.
Plus water polo is not a pac 10 sport.
Del
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I agree!!!! That's why TexASS has made so much money. Texas Monthly did a great article http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-11-01/feature.php on the rise of Texas athletics from the 90's to now -- They wanted to be great at every sport so they decided to limit the ones they compete in compared to say Ohio State which has sports in almost everything. This way they had the money to hire the best coaches and build the best facilities for every sport they compete in. Make no mistake, I'm not saying that I wouldn't like to see CU have some more sports at all but I think we should focus on building up the ones we have now and then maybe adding some more later