List of schools that can afford D1 soccer.
https://www.ncsasports.org/mens-socc.ion-1-colleges
It is not the most popular sport where you live or anywhere around here. Pretty important to the financial viability of the proposition. Didn't the league fold the lasts time soccer was tried in Lafayette. You have to have someone to play in a reasonable vicinity for it to be viable.
With all the billionaires in the world that love soccer, NIL deals could become bigger in soccer than they are in football.
I've said what I said about the program so I will only speak to the type of talent we would get.
If you could get a coach in here that can properly recruit Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and International Students. You would have a serious program on your hands. UL already has a ton of international students that come over for several of our academic programs. If you can now give athletic scholarships for soccer who is to say you can't get some incredible talent from the international player pool.
Not to mention Texas and Florida produce fantastic talent and are right next to us as well travel wise. We'd run the South if we could do it. '
If you are curious as to why LSU-Eunice is top 10 every year for JUCO soccer it is because their coach knows how to recruit Texas and International Players. He would be the ideal candidate to become the first programs head coach. Josh McReynolds. https://athletics.lsue.edu/staff-dir.-mcreynolds/54 . Check out his coaching Bio. Pretty solid.
Someone donate $4 mil and everything we are discussing can come true we're golden. Anyone got that?
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