Any chance Nebraska will field a D1 Lacrosse team

[Makethecallsports]

Now that the BIG will have a Lacrosse conference next year I am wondering how long until the Huskers add this sport (ever?)

[mrandyk]

Michigan just started their team last year They had been dominant at the club level, but I believe they have yet to win a conference game in their first two years in the NCAA.

 

How many talented lacrosse players would consider UNL? I've never heard of any high schools playing lacrosse in this area, it could be quite a disadvantage.

[Judoka]

Probably a better chance of the Huskers getting on the rink first.

[Landlord]

who are you and why are you asking these weird questions

[StPaulHusker]

Bowling and lacrosse are the 2 fastest growing HS varsity sports in most states. It's not too far fetched that it could happen but I think you would need the state of Nebraska or at least some surrounding states to start fielding teams to get it off the ground. It will be a while.

[Omaha-Husker]

There is a ten team high school league here.

[NUance]

[Scratchtown]

Lacross to me is a soccer/hockey combo, and I don't like either sport. I can handle Hockey live, but soccer is a no go for me on every level.

[Marf]

Michigan just started their team last year They had been dominant at the club level, but I believe they have yet to win a conference game in their first two years in the NCAA.

 

How many talented lacrosse players would consider UNL? I've never heard of any high schools playing lacrosse in this area, it could be quite a disadvantage.

 

Michigan's disadvantage is just that; they were dominant at the club level. Unfortunately, they kept their same coach who excelled in the MCLA ranks but is in way way over his head at the NCAA Division 1 level. He runs routine 3 across zone rides and Princeton slide packages; things that worked for him in the MCLA where his teams were far and away athletically superior, but at the NCAA level Michigan is basically a joke. Michigan will continue to be a doormat until they dump Mr. Paul and hire some real coaching expertise in. Michigan high school lacrosse players, in general, are talented enough to play upper level lacrosse, Big Blue could pull any recruit they want in that state, but it takes a good coach to draw the talent, and the best of the best from the state continue to go to the Marylands/Hopkins/Syracuses of the world.

 

As for Nebraska. Way off in the future. Nebraska high school lacrosse is about as low of quality as you will find in the United States. UNL currently has a club team that is rather poor in the MCLA, the same league Michigan dominated for 5 years. There is talent to be pulled from Oregon/Washington/Idaho/Texas that is still undiscovered by the purists back East who only want Maryland/Long Island kids, but more established programs like Denver are starting to pick those talent clusters clean. Nebraska's only hope would be a ton of out of state recruiting on the west coast, but at this point it'd be too little too late to establish a foothold. Going to have to wait for in state talent to catch up to make a push, so we're talking 15-20 years minimum. Way, way, way off.

[NUinID]

 

Michigan just started their team last year They had been dominant at the club level, but I believe they have yet to win a conference game in their first two years in the NCAA.

 

How many talented lacrosse players would consider UNL? I've never heard of any high schools playing lacrosse in this area, it could be quite a disadvantage.

 

Michigan's disadvantage is just that; they were dominant at the club level. Unfortunately, they kept their same coach who excelled in the MCLA ranks but is in way way over his head at the NCAA Division 1 level. He runs routine 3 across zone rides and Princeton slide packages; things that worked for him in the MCLA where his teams were far and away athletically superior, but at the NCAA level Michigan is basically a joke. Michigan will continue to be a doormat until they dump Mr. Paul and hire some real coaching expertise in. Michigan high school lacrosse players, in general, are talented enough to play upper level lacrosse, Big Blue could pull any recruit they want in that state, but it takes a good coach to draw the talent, and the best of the best from the state continue to go to the Marylands/Hopkins/Syracuses of the world.

 

As for Nebraska. Way off in the future. Nebraska high school lacrosse is about as low of quality as you will find in the United States. UNL currently has a club team that is rather poor in the MCLA, the same league Michigan dominated for 5 years. There is talent to be pulled from Oregon/Washington/Idaho/Texas that is still undiscovered by the purists back East who only want Maryland/Long Island kids, but more established programs like Denver are starting to pick those talent clusters clean. Nebraska's only hope would be a ton of out of state recruiting on the west coast, but at this point it'd be too little too late to establish a foothold. Going to have to wait for in state talent to catch up to make a push, so we're talking 15-20 years minimum. Way, way, way off.

 

Wow, you know way too much about lacrosse.

[Judoka]

Lacross to me is a soccer/hockey combo, and I don't like either sport. I can handle Hockey live, but soccer is a no go for me on every level.

I loved PLAYING soccer as a kid through college, but I have never been able to watch it.