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Why are we launching this sport again? I'm not against (on the contrary) but our home conference doesn't have a league, and neither does AAC or Big Ten. So not sure what the play is here. 

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I believe it may have been related to funding. IIRC with the increase of funding going toward football, we had to balance it elsewhere, hence launching the WLAX program (that will also use the OCS) an

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Brad mentioned Title IX, which is right, but why we picked this one ..... I think it is a relatively low cost sport to field. We were close to starting Rowing, and it is very expensive. I know we

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That's great.  I thought it might be at an actual beach since we have so many to choose from.  I like it right there at the YC. Put on some Jimmy Buffet, mix up a 'rita and try not to blow out my

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18 minutes ago, Triple B said:

I'm not so keen on putting yet another sport that close to the YC .......... it would have been nice to put it far away as possible as a test. Sailing has their version of a natty and look how far away that is.

They sailed their first two seasons in the Corral, so there's that.

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Why are we launching this sport again? I'm not against (on the contrary) but our home conference doesn't have a league, and neither does AAC or Big Ten. So not sure what the play is here. 

Title IX

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2 hours ago, Brad said:

They sailed their first two seasons in the Corral, so there's that.

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4 hours ago, hm101 said:

Why are we launching this sport again? I'm not against (on the contrary) but our home conference doesn't have a league, and neither does AAC or Big Ten. So not sure what the play is here. 

Did someone mention a while back that some ACC schools did?

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Did someone mention a while back that some ACC schools did?

I think so. Think it was with the WLAX that the ACC has too 

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7 hours ago, Brad said:

Title IX

Can you elaborate? Is this some regulation we were not compliant with? A way to get more funding?

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7 hours ago, hm101 said:

Can you elaborate? Is this some regulation we were not compliant with? A way to get more funding?

I believe it may have been related to funding. IIRC with the increase of funding going toward football, we had to balance it elsewhere, hence launching the WLAX program (that will also use the OCS) and the beach volleyball program, both of which put us in line with the ACC and potential colleagues there.

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16 hours ago, hm101 said:

Why are we launching this sport again? I'm not against (on the contrary) but our home conference doesn't have a league, and neither does AAC or Big Ten. So not sure what the play is here. 

Brad mentioned Title IX, which is right, but why we picked this one .....

I think it is a relatively low cost sport to field. We were close to starting Rowing, and it is very expensive. I know we looked at bowling years ago, but that never got much traction. 

Working hard to not cut men's sports is very admirable. 

 

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28 minutes ago, Mike Stuben said:
16 hours ago, hm101 said:

Why are we launching this sport again? I'm not against (on the contrary) but our home conference doesn't have a league, and neither does AAC or Big Ten. So not sure what the play is here. 

Brad mentioned Title IX, which is right, but why we picked this one .....

I think it is a relatively low cost sport to field. We were close to starting Rowing, and it is very expensive. I know we looked at bowling years ago, but that never got much traction. 

Working hard to not cut men's sports is very admirable. 

 

When it comes to all of the above, plus the overall emergence of this sport and our locale, starting a program at USF seems kinda like a no-brainer to me.

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14 hours ago, Bull Matrix said:

I think so. Think it was with the WLAX that the ACC has too 

You're right. It was the LAX that was mentioned.

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