Is it time for a UL Soccer Team for the guys?

[cajun_lannister]

In all fairness travel is the most expensive part. And when you consider there are next to no local programs travel will definitely be expensive.

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d1/ncaa-mens-soccer-rpi

[CajunEXPRESS]

Please don't cite Wikipedia. It kills your argument.

And if you're judging soccer popularity on the MLS, you're looking in the wrong place for affirmation. (Although MLS is the fastest growing sport in American professional sports not named UFC).

There are also many other things to address in this post. I'll be back when I have a min.

Wikipedia is an excellent source for stats.

Baseball is a very difficult game to master. Everyone here understands how much athleticism, mental disapline, eye hand coordination, and inate geometric IQ plays into the game. I gave up on baseball to focus on the much easier sports of football and basketball. I watched my three sons fail to excel at baseball. They went on to enjoy and excel at the the much easier soccer. I watched all the less talented boys give up baseball, and football to excel in soccer.

I'm sure soccer in America will continue to grow maybe because baseball is so damed hard to be good at.

[ManAboutTown]

Also, a coach whose worth anything? Or We could hire another Scott Weiland and not even talk to All State soccer players in Lafayette.

Obviously it'd have to executed properly. Soccer requires a minimal staff. Training facility is already in place and B-Mag is putting an emphasis on properly staffing our department.

Let's do a cost analysis, get the local soccer community involved and hash it out at least. We have great people in this area that devote their lives to the game (and are actually extremely talented).

On the flip side, when (not if) soccer begins its boom around the south, can we afford to be behind the curve... again?

[ManAboutTown]

Wikipedia is an excellent source for stats.

Baseball is a very difficult game to master. Everyone here understands how much athleticism, mental disapline, eye hand coordination, and inate geometric IQ plays into the game. I gave up on baseball to focus on the much easier sports of football and basketball. I watched my three sons fail to excel at baseball. They went on to enjoy and excel at the the much easier soccer. I watched all the less talented boys give up baseball, and football to excel in soccer.

I'm sure soccer in America will continue to grow maybe because baseball is so damed hard to be good at.

The rise of soccer and fall of baseball has absolutely nothing to do with skill or ability or difficultly. Younger generations have shorter attention spans. Baseball requires an extreme amount of focus and players endure long stints with zero interaction within the game.

Soccer is the opposite of that. Everyone is constantly involved and must be thinking 3 steps ahead at all times.

Baseball has also become a regional sport while soccer is international, and is the most popular sport in the world. Has been for many more years than American's realize.

[Hark Mudspeth]

Wikipedia is an excellent source for stats.

Baseball is a very difficult game to master. Everyone here understands how much athleticism, mental disapline, eye hand coordination, and inate geometric IQ plays into the game. I gave up on baseball to focus on the much easier sports of football and basketball. I watched my three sons fail to excel at baseball. They went on to enjoy and excel at the the much easier soccer. I watched all the less talented boys give up baseball, and football to excel in soccer.

I'm sure soccer in America will continue to grow maybe because baseball is so damed hard to be good at.

Easier? A game that is much lower scoring and requires you to be the most conditioned out of any besides track/cross country is easier? It always amuses me how many people have such strong opinions of a sport they never actually played and if they did it wasn't past the age of everyone running towards the ball and kicking it. Soccer is much harder to be good at, there are just less people that know how to play...but it's growing.

[cajun_lannister]

Just think of the beer sales soccer would make

[ManAboutTown]

Also soccer is a very convenient sport. Very few stoppages, 2 hours long. Soccer also somehow attracts a unique kind of supporter. Some of the most rabid, passionate people choose soccer as their favorite sport.

That would fit right in on a college campus like ours.

[duggie85]

Also soccer is a very convenient sport. Very few stoppages, 2 hours long. Soccer also somehow attracts a unique kind of supporter. Some of the most rabid, passionate people choose soccer as their favorite sport.

That would fit right in on a college campus like ours.

I'm all for improving our athletic offerings. Just don't see how we can prop up a program while waiting on everyone around us to invest in said sport.

[CajunDreDog]

I'm assuming we would have to play in the SBC
http://www.sunbeltsports.org/standings.aspx?path=msoc

[Turbine]

UL is hanging on by a thread in all sports trying to keep up with not only the P5 mountain, but all the other mid majors that are in better position than us.

The last thing we need is another program that will bring 0 revenue to the table.

If marketed right and if they avoid ownership problems UL can tap the imagination of Acadiana just like hockey did.