Kolek planning to go pro
I'd rather add baseball/softball than bring back football.
Hockey would be the best fit, IMO
I'd love for MU to have hockey. But outside of Providence is there another Big East school with hockey? And how many comparable institutions have hockey? BC, ND but they can subsidize it with football money.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
UConn
Not even that, but they’ve had it forever. ND’s program has been around since the early 70s, far longer. They were established, funded programs far before the finances of college sports became hyper focused. Same with Providence and they play in hockey’s premier conference. Both of the major college programs to start recently, Penn St and ASU, were totally funded by boosters, despite being at huge well funded athletic departments. Penn St hockey was fully funded in the 9 figures by Terry Pegula who owns the Bills and Sabres, and ASU hockey raised $35MM from boosters and ASU club hockey alums. It was awesome how Marquette put Lax together, but forming a hockey team would be a far more difficult and costly endeavor that would directly compete with their most important and well funded sport
ND dropped their hockey program for about 15 years from the mid 80s to about 2000. (Off the top of my head.)
Gotcha. I remember watching them usually get clocked by Wisconsin in the old WCHA days in the late 70s. They weren't very good back then.
No...and after reading many many psosts from people on this board that do...I have to say I'm MUCH better off, if this is the type of "intelligence" a degree from MU gets you. It sure is on full display I will say that.
And Marquette doesn't need any additional sports at this time.
Number of sports teams per each Big East school's web site. Track and field includes both an indoor (winter) team and an outdoor (spring) team. This does not count split teams by sport. Georgetown, for instance, counts women's and coed sailing as two distinct "teams" but merely lists it under one title, same with HW and LW rowing. GU counts 30 "teams" but only lists 26.Georgetown 26Villanova 24Connecticut 24Butler 20Providence 18Xavier 18St. John's 17DePaul 15Creighton 14 Marquette 14Seton Hall 14
i feel like theres some clowns on this site that are sub conciously anti football simply cuz marquette doesnt have it.
I can honestly say the lack of football was a consideration in my decision to attend MU.
Still doesn't mean Marquette needs more sports.
I love college football. I have called it the quintessential American sport. Saturday night SEC game? Awesome. That being said, Marquette shouldn’t sponsor it. It would be a complete resource drain with little upside.
College football is stupid. Pro football is awesome