MLS considering tripling the salary budget

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  1. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    And a look through the hometowns of Duke and UNC and Wake Forest players gives you a long list of Maryland and New England cities, plus Canada and Europe.
     
  2. POdinCowtown

    POdinCowtown Member+

    Jan 15, 2002
    Columbus
    Looking at the NCAA's list of sports in which they have championships, the only sports listed that aren't on the OSU list are Water Polo, Beach Volleyball, and Bowling. OSU most certainly has a bowling team and I think they have at least partial scholarships so I'm not sure why they aren't on the OSU athletics dept website.
     
  3. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    A lot of the HBCUs have bowling. Rumors in the ACC are that Beach Volleyball is the next thing. I believe the two Florida schools have it, but I'm hearing rumors that a bunch of other schools are looking at adding it.
     
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  4. ThreeApples

    ThreeApples Member+

    Jul 28, 1999
    Smurf Village
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I checked the California rosters and the public schools (Cal and UC Davis) had an impressive majority of Californians, with a handful of Europeans. Stanford, on the other hand, seems to be all New Jersey and England.
     
  5. 007Spartan

    007Spartan Member+

    Mar 1, 2006
    Scottsdale, AZ
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Sure, they could, but they won’t.
     
  6. NashSC

    NashSC Member+

    Nashville SC
    United States
    Jan 3, 2018
    I saw college beach volleyball on ESPN just a couple days ago. Looked like they call it spike ball.
     
  7. Bill Archer

    Bill Archer BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 19, 2002
    Washington, NC
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Of course they could. Others as well - Texas, Washington, Clemson, Florida, others. What I don't get is why.

    Sure it cuts into the profit margin from football a bit but it solves some other problems and is comparatively cheap.

    As for bowling, it's complicated. Going from memory because I don't care enough about friggin bowling, the NCAA sanctions a women's championship only, consisting of ten or twelve teams chosen God knows how and all Divisions (ie. I., II and III) compete together on a equal basis.

    Schools like Ohio State treat it as a club sport since as far as I know it's not actually sanctioned or treated like a regular NCAA sport. I think the bottom line is that it's complicated and, frankly, who cares? No disrespect intended but any activity that is generally associated with sucking on a Budweiser between frames isn't really intercollegiate sport.
     
  8. POdinCowtown

    POdinCowtown Member+

    Jan 15, 2002
    Columbus
    OSU has it as a club sport though they play other colleges. I guess the billiards and chess teams are a bridge too far. I was in the rock climbing club when at OSU and we got our money from the student government rather than the athletics dept. So that's probably how they draw the line between sports and activities.
     
  9. ThreeApples

    ThreeApples Member+

    Jul 28, 1999
    Smurf Village
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Washington and Clemson do have men's soccer.
     
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  10. phedre44

    phedre44 Member

    SKC
    Apr 1, 2008
    Kansas
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    My dinky little sub-1000 student population private university wanted to add a men's wrestling team while I was there, and added a women's bowling team to off-set. Since most of my friends were graduating on time, and I knew I'd have to come back for a fifth year (don't change your major halfway through your senior year, kids...shit's expensive), I joined. And this is super accurate. We were pretty routinely getting thrashed by Wichita State, University of Kansas, etc.

    Well, I got a $500 scholarship and Academic All-American honors for my "athletic" endeavors, so I guess I care a little bit. :p
     
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