UCONN lax 2021????

[Typical Lax Dad]

BYU has tv money, they’ve got a niche market cornered. UMass has yet to how thy can be competitive in 1A/FBS.

Growth has been good but this is nuts. Recall butler who
Didn’t have football dropped a solid lacrosse program to reinforce BB. That was a borderline top 20 program Stan Ross has built.

And whoever noted CT is broke is correct. The HF guys are leaving (long before the myth of 2&20 bursts and it’s already way down), lost GE, check Waterbury, anywhere around hartford or the casinos. They can’t even afford fire extinguishers on a July 4th night.

Richmond dropped soccer to add lacrosse.

[HowieT3]

How does UMass and BYU do it? Or Sunbelt teams do it?

They play a ton of "buy" games to supplement their revenue.

As I said, there is little difference overall between running a DIA program and DIAA football program. It is why lots of teams have made the jump over the last decade. Scholarships are pure accounting on the part of the university. Outside of the accounting world, they don't cost anything to the university.

And the point I responded to was dropping down not eliminating the program. They might eliminate the program but I doubt they start a lax program in its place.

That statement only applies to private schools. Nearly every, if not every, state has a law which prohibits funding athletic scholarships (along with the rest of the athletic department) with state funds. Now, could they play games with charging a player in-state instead of out-of-state tuition, sure. However, there's no write-off of the amount of the scholarship by the financial aid office like a private school can do. I know for a fact, each semester the UVa Bursar sends a bill to the Athletic Department for the tuition, fees, room, board, and books for the scholarship athletes and the Virginia Athletics Foundation writes a check to cover it. The funds that back that check are 100% from private sources. State schools are subject to the same NCAA rules regarding financial aid to athletes that are not part of an athletic scholarship ("need-based aid") that private schools must follow.