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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: vogue65 on June 05, 2020, 01:05:53 PM
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Why does Marquette have lacrosse teams?
It is an uncivilized, upper middle class, mostly white, low skill sport. (thanks for sharing)
It is for kids with only two attributes.
Lot's of pent up aggression and endurance.
Does Marquette field lacrosse teams because upper class Universities play lacrosse?
Is it the Big East trying to attract white upper middle class surban high school kids?
Is it for the image of the league? Why, why?
Why not NCAA crew, equestrian or fencing? Why not go all the way?
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Because it’s one of the fastest growing sports in the country.
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Because it’s one of the fastest growing sports in the country.
I hear it's just a fad.
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Why does Marquette have lacrosse teams?
It is an uncivilized, upper middle class, mostly white, low skill sport. (thanks for sharing)
It is for kids with only two attributes.
Lot's of pent up aggression and endurance.
Does Marquette field lacrosse teams because upper class Universities play lacrosse?
Is it the Big East trying to attract white upper middle class surban high school kids?
Is it for the image of the league? Why, why?
Why not NCAA crew, equestrian or fencing? Why not go all the way?
Lacrosse is also on TV. No one gives any cares to Fencing, Equestrian or crew.
Equestrian? Really?
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Technically this is a racist opinion against native Americans. Calling their cultural sport uncivilized mimics the racist thought of calling native Americans uncivilized during colonial times.
Beyond that have you played lacrosse? I played for over decade and was all conference in HS. It is not a low skill sport. It's a heck of a lot harder technical wise than any sport that involves your hands on the actual ball.
Beyond that MU is predominantly white upper middle class kids from suburbs so they don't need lacrosse to recruit that segment. Whether lacrosse breeds a$$holes is another topic that id certainly support.
What sport is civilized since were on the topic?
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Technically this is a racist opinion against native Americans. Calling their cultural sport uncivilized mimics the racist thought of calling native Americans uncivilized during colonial times.
Beyond that have you played lacrosse? I played for over decade and was all conference in HS. It is not a low skill sport. It's a heck of a lot harder technical wise than any sport that involves your hands on the actual ball.
Beyond that MU is predominantly white upper middle class kids from suburbs so they don't need lacrosse to recruit that segment. Whether lacrosse breeds a$$holes is another topic that is certainly support.
What sport is civilized since were on the topic?
Apparently we need a chess team
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Apparently we need a chess team
And Sarcastaball.
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Lacrosse teams are in vogue.
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Lacrosse is also on TV. No one gives any cares to Fencing, Equestrian or crew.
Equestrian? Really?
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And Sarcastaball.
... sponsored by MUScoop.
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Technically this is a racist opinion against native Americans. Calling their cultural sport uncivilized mimics the racist thought of calling native Americans uncivilized during colonial times.
Beyond that have you played lacrosse? I played for over decade and was all conference in HS. It is not a low skill sport. It's a heck of a lot harder technical wise than any sport that involves your hands on the actual ball.
Beyond that MU is predominantly white upper middle class kids from suburbs so they don't need lacrosse to recruit that segment. Whether lacrosse breeds a$$holes is another topic that id certainly support.
What sport is civilized since were on the topic?
So true.
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So true.
Takes one to know one brother
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Takes one to know one brother
Never played lacrosse.
And those were your words, not mine. Surprised a smart guy like yourself didn't realize that.
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Never played lacrosse.
And those were your words, not mine. Surprised a smart guy like yourself didn't realize that.
Smart I don't believe I've ever claimed as such. Took five years to graduate MU after all. Don't get defensive when you call someone an A$$ unprovoked and get called one back.
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The recruits are racist.
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Good morning,
Some interesting ideas have been presented on this topic.
Yes, there are Universities where the students bring their horses to campus. One half doesn't know how the other half lives.
I got involved with the son of a former co-worker who played football at an elite school. I had no idea there were universities where the kids brought their horses to school.
I'm with the 5 year MU graduates, me too. Proves MU is not a diploma mill. They grade on a curve and stick to requirements and standards. In my mind it is what puts Marquette in the category of real universities.
The argument that hockey and lacrosse are native american is true while irrevelant. Personally I'm opposed to violent sports. Boxing, football, hockey, kick boxing, and lacrosse all fit into the category. It is not an anti native american bias, just my world view. Archery is another left over sport, just not my cup of tea.
Tennis (I don't play it), squash, golf, water sports, various racing, soccer, basketball, baseball, are examples of less violent sports. Although high level soccer can be very violent.
My question is why Marquette plays NCAA lacrosse. Is it a requirement of the Big East, an effort to move on up, a deep seated need to fit in?
I'm no longer supporting sending teams of upper middle class kids all over the country to play sports.
I was in Denver one night awaiting a late flight to New York. There was a large high school age hockey team flying Frontier to Idaho to play hockey. Does that mean they can't find a competitive game in the Denver area?
My neighbors bring their sons at midnight or later to a local rink for "ice time". Why? To differentiate them from the rest of the country? To associate with other upper middle class kids?
I understand it is what it is, it is our culture.
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It's a relatively inexpensive sport to sponsor (in terms of equipment and facilities) and it attracts students from the East Coast.
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if contact sports aren't your cup of tea that's fine for you. but some of us have contact sports to thank For how we turned out Or like being tested to our physical limits. Specifically boxing gave me some perspective, pride and drive when I literally had nothing else in the world. Because you don't like them doesn't make them "uncivilized." And you haven't used any other reason beyond just calling them that for why they shouldn't exist.
Hockey is not a Native American sport it's a Nordic sport bastardized from the Irish game of hurling and Scottish game of shinty. I brought Lacrosse being a native sport up because you used the loaded word uncivilized. Which is a loaded term when it comes to anything Native American or African. Especially a white guy in a European country saying it, bad optics that are no different from colonial time.
Athletic talent is not unique to lower income families. What is the goal? To have an income requirement for college sports? Income requirement for college Athletic scholarships? Rich white kids can and do play basketball too, example the Hausers used to post photos on Instagram of their house, they were hardly hurting for money. Soccer and tennis are definitely rich kid sports too. So I think you are arguing not against rich white kid sports but against Lacrosse in particular which is a weird one to single out.
If you want to discuss uncivilized games why don't you start with Florentine Football in your own country. That is considerably more Brutish than anything else out there
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It's a relatively inexpensive sport to sponsor (in terms of equipment and facilities) and it attracts students from the East Coast.
My point exactly, East Coast snobs. Sorry, emotionally charged word.
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My point exactly, East Coast snobs. Sorry, emotionally charged word.
Ironically you live in New Jersey.
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if contact sports aren't your cup of tea that's fine for you. but some of us have contact sports to thank For how we turned out Or like being tested to our physical limits. Specifically boxing gave me some perspective, pride and drive when I literally had nothing else in the world. Because you don't like them doesn't make them "uncivilized." And you haven't used any other reason beyond just calling them that for why they shouldn't exist.
Hockey is not a Native American sport it's a Nordic sport bastardized from the Irish game of hurling and Scottish game of shinty. I brought Lacrosse being a native sport up because you used the loaded word uncivilized. Which is a loaded term when it comes to anything Native American or African. Especially a white guy in a European country saying it, bad optics that are no different from colonial time.
Athletic talent is not unique to lower income families. What is the goal? To have an income requirement for college sports? Income requirement for college Athletic scholarships? Rich white kids can and do play basketball too, example the Hausers used to post photos on Instagram of their house, they were hardly hurting for money. Soccer and tennis are definitely rich kid sports too. So I think you are arguing not against rich white kid sports but against Lacrosse in particular which is a weird one to single out.
If you want to discuss uncivilized games why don't you start with Florentine Football in your own country. That is considerably more Brutish than anything else out there
I live in New Jetsey, I carry an Irish Passport, I have an apartment in Bergamo, Italy, my wife is an Italian and American citizen.
I consider blood sports uncivilized.
Thanks for the history lesson about uncivilized sports.
I subscribe to the Irish Eco and they always have great action photos of young Irish guys beating the hell out of each other. The new Irish blood sport is fighting with deminstrators, great fun.
NYPD enjoy the legalized thug behavior.
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I live in New Jetsey, I carry an Irish Passport, I have an apartment in Bergamo, Italy, my wife is an Italian and American citizen.
I consider blood sports uncivilized.
Thanks for the history lesson about uncivilized sports.
I subscribe to the Irish Eco and they always have great action photos of young Irish guys beating the hell out of each other. The new Irish blood sport is fighting with deminstrators, great fun.
NYPD enjoy the legalized thug behavior.
I hope you enjoy your bowling and figure skating.
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Ironically you live in New Jersey.
Hay Fluff, it takes one to know one. I even live a few miles from Trump in Bedminster, N.J..
However, I'm from Long Island City, Queens by way of Virginia, Milwaukee and White Plains, N.Y.. I'd say, sort of well rounded.
BTW, Newark and Camden are beautiful, peaceful examples of systemic change toward more civilized communities.
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Hay Fluff, it takes one to know one. I even live a few miles from Trump in Bedminster, N.J..
However, I'm from Long Island City, Queens by way of Virginia, Milwaukee and White Plains, N.Y.. I'd say, sort of well rounded.
BTW, Newark and Camden are beautiful, peaceful examples of systemic change toward more civilized communities.
Well rounded in what way? Seems like just about all East Coast.
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Hay Fluff, it takes one to know one. I even live a few miles from Trump in Bedminster, N.J..
However, I'm from Long Island City, Queens by way of Virginia, Milwaukee and White Plains, N.Y.. I'd say, sort of well rounded.
BTW, Newark and Camden are beautiful, peaceful examples of systemic change toward more civilized communities.
73% of the Marquette student body is from Illinois or Wisconsin. So it is okay for you to be more well rounded geographically but not MU?
Why were Denver kids flying to Idaho to play hockey. Perhaps its why kids in every sport travel far and wide to play sports. That's a common thing in dozens of sports. Competition, life experience, etc ...Denver has had a long history of hockey popularity at the college and professionally level. And its youth teams have been improving to higher levels in recent years. In ice hockey, ice time is difficult to get, as well as costly. It is common for youth to have to practice and play at all hours.
Why does MU have a lacrosse team?
1) MU is affiliated with the Big East Conference which has schools with teams, a few, very successful. 2) Lacrosse has been a big booming growth sport at various youth levels across the country. Some Midwest cities have had high school teams for 20 plus years. In California it has been the sport with moat growth in recent years.
Many sports can improve its opportunities for minority as well as low income people. Some do it better than others. Whether it is City League Lax in your area, or RBI baseball, or programs in tennis, golf, you name it...some exist.
Remember life is much bigger and different in reality than limited, incomplete inaccurate stereotypes and generalizations. It is much more individually specific and nuanced. And it's much bigger than one individual's fandom or lackthereof.
A better goal is to integrate sports more, racially, geographically, socio-economically, as opposed to having superficial separations. Some sports, teams, geographies, etc...are better at this than others.
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I live in New Jetsey, I carry an Irish Passport, I have an apartment in Bergamo, Italy, my wife is an Italian and American citizen.
I consider blood sports uncivilized.
Thanks for the history lesson about uncivilized sports.
I subscribe to the Irish Eco and they always have great action photos of young Irish guys beating the hell out of each other. The new Irish blood sport is fighting with deminstrators, great fun.
NYPD enjoy the legalized thug behavior.
Apologize for the misunderstanding about your whereabouts. Doesn't quite change the bad optics of calling the Native American sport uncivilized.
I carry Irish & USA passports. I have Italian citizenship as well but no passport. Don't see what that has to do with anything about lacrosse or contact sports.
You have every right to not like contact sports. That's Not an argument against them. And if anything taking them away is actually creating greater barriers for lower classes.
I'm not sure I understand your last paragraph at all. I'm as against police brutality as the next person
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A better goal is to integrate sports more, racially, geographically, socio-economically, as opposed to having superficial separations. Some sports, teams, geographies, etc...are better at this than others.
+1
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+1
And it has to be prioritized and intentional. It doesn't happen by accident or chance or some sort of trickle down byproduct.
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Well rounded in what way? Seems like just about all East Coast.
That's why I lived 5+ years in Milwaukee. I understand very well the midwest mentality. Yes, it is different.
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That's why I lived 5+ years in Milwaukee. I understand very well the midwest mentality. Yes, it is different.
Didn't you live here like 50 years ago?
I mean, I understand that its different. No one would seriously disagree with that. But I am not sure you have a real contemporary view of the midwest or Milwaukee.
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Apologize for the misunderstanding about your whereabouts. Doesn't quite change the bad optics of calling the Native American sport uncivilized.
I carry Irish & USA passports. I have Italian citizenship as well but no passport. Don't see what that has to do with anything about lacrosse or contact sports.
You have every right to not like contact sports. That's Not an argument against them. And if anything taking them away is actually creating greater barriers for lower classes.
I'm not sure I understand your last paragraph at all. I'm as against police brutality as the next person
To understand the NYPD it helps to be an Irish New Yorker. I grew up in the Irish ghetto, it explains, to me, the current police behavior.
The Eco, I'm still connected to my roots, addresses blood sports in Ireland. Allow me to even include horse racing.
We are discussing various sports, their history and characteristics. People have spoken about native american, Italian, and East Coast sports. Denver hockey, west coast lacrosse, and Irish sports just broden the discussion.
I only notice one reasonable explanation for M.U. Lacrosse . Lacrosse helps east coast student recruiting and is relatively a low cost opetation. The university has for a long time had the goal of being a national vs. a regional university. Got it and I agree.
Nevertheless, there might be better ways of acheiving the goal without lacrosse. The argument that Marquette plays lacrosse because it has native american roots is rather weak and actually racist, IMHO.
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Didn't you live here like 50 years ago?
I mean, I understand that its different. No one would seriously disagree with that. But I am not sure you have a real contemporary view of the midwest or Milwaukee.
Although I subscribe to the jsonline.com and read it every day, you may be correct, I'm a little out of touch.
After graduation I worked for a Minnessota company for 7 years and would frequently stop by for a visit. I have had only two visits over the past twenty years. I recognise that I am as relevant to current Marquette as an anumni in my day who graduated in 1915. 1965-50=1915. Holy cow!
I understand that Marquette and Milwaukee think, and even smell differently. While I cherish my memories, the Pfister at 1:00 A.M., 30 degrees below, St. Louis tourch singer in the first floor lounge, times have changed. No more smells of chocolate, breweries and stock yards. And now we play lacrosse, it's all part of the package.
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I only notice one reasonable explanation for M.U. Lacrosse . Lacrosse helps east coast student recruiting and is relatively a low cost opetation. The university has for a long time had the goal of being a national vs. a regional university. Got it and I agree.
Nevertheless, there might be better ways of acheiving the goal without lacrosse.
So if it helps meet other goals Marquette is trying to achieve, what specific issue do you have with lacrosse?
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So if it helps meet other goals Marquette is trying to achieve, what specific issue do you have with lacrosse?
1. I personally see it as promoting violence.
2. I see it as elitest.
3. There are additional goals beyond cost and recruiting.
Your reasons, recruiting and relative cost, are understandable.
I started at Marquette in 1961 the year after football. At the time or soon thereafter the univetsity had the slogan, Intellectual and Moral Excellence. The university had serious concerns about the Friday night pre game wilding, demonstrations, violence, and so-called pep rallies.
I just think there are better sports to play than lacrosse. Keep in mind that this discussion is connected to the character of a freshman student athlete who plays the sport. Put simply, I don't think lacrosse contributes to intellectual or moral excellence.
I know I'm in a minority. The economic downturn and the pandemic may change intercollegiate sports anyway.
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Why does MU field teams in this sport?
A tribute to all the fine people of La Crosse.
Duh.
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1. I personally see it as promoting violence.
2. I see it as elitest.
3. There are additional goals beyond cost and recruiting.
Your reasons, recruiting and relative cost, are understandable.
I started at Marquette in 1961 the year after football. At the time or soon thereafter the univetsity had the slogan, Intellectual and Moral Excellence. The university had serious concerns about the Friday night pre game wilding, demonstrations, violence, and so-called pep rallies.
I just think there are better sports to play than lacrosse. Keep in mind that this discussion is connected to the character of a freshman student athlete who plays the sport. Put simply, I don't think lacrosse contributes to intellectual or moral excellence.
I know I'm in a minority. The economic downturn and the pandemic may change intercollegiate sports anyway.
What is a true meaningful growing sport that generates some sort of revenue that Marquette could add that doesn’t “promote violence”?
There are zero, and that includes baseball which is nationally on a downswing and Midwestern schools are nothing more than cannon fodder cause they can’t practice year round like their southern competitors.
Marquette’s disgustingly East Coast elitist Lax team actually has 60% of its roster from non-East Coast locals and from nearly a dozen other states, including those not traditionally Marquette feeders like Alabama, Georgia, Colorado, and Canada like Ontario and Alberta.
It’s funny that you think of “blood sport” like lacrosse or football as befitting of scorn and taking away from the stature of the university, yet “softer” sports not currently offered like Crew, Men’s Volleyball, Water Polo, or Women’s Field Hockey are just as elitist if not more.
But you’re referencing the rowdiness and “wilding” of a pep rally 60 years ago as justification for decisions made about intercollegiate decisions in 2020 so this is probably a worthless attempt to stop you shouting at clouds
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To understand the NYPD it helps to be an Irish New Yorker. I grew up in the Irish ghetto, it explains, to me, the current police behavior.
The Eco, I'm still connected to my roots, addresses blood sports in Ireland. Allow me to even include horse racing.
We are discussing various sports, their history and characteristics. People have spoken about native american, Italian, and East Coast sports. Denver hockey, west coast lacrosse, and Irish sports just broden the discussion.
I only notice one reasonable explanation for M.U. Lacrosse . Lacrosse helps east coast student recruiting and is relatively a low cost opetation. The university has for a long time had the goal of being a national vs. a regional university. Got it and I agree.
Nevertheless, there might be better ways of acheiving the goal without lacrosse. The argument that Marquette plays lacrosse because it has native american roots is rather weak and actually racist, IMHO.
18 of 58 players on Marquette’s 2020 men’s lacrosse roster are from the East (and that’s with a very generous definition of “East”)
Why does Marquette have cheerleaders? Or a newspaper?
I think both of those are fads.
(Sorry I have no idea how to use teal).
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Vogue65 has stated he doesn't like lacrosse because it is in a list of sports he considers violent, which is fine. He names other typical examples. He does concede the physicality involved in high level of less obvious sports such as soccer (true), and you could also extend that to some other sports too.
Later Vogue65 equates those mentioned violent sports as not being intellectual, or moral, especially in college, which he prefers. This is where he drifts into broad brushes. At the same time he asks if MU plays it because elite schools play it.
It would seem that Vogue65 wants what he considers intellectual and moral sports at MU, while at the same time being what he considers to be non-violent. He is vague about race, socio-economics, geography.
He isn't aware of the mainstream growth of lacrosse over recent decades.
As I mentioned before, I wouldn't paint such broad brushes describing things in stereotypes. Reality can often times be quite different. I would also repeat that better solutions are to increase opportuntinities and integration of those sports in a wide variety of ways racially, geographically, socio-economically, instead of self segragating and walking away from them. (These things have and continue to happen at growing rates)
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Lacrosse is a physical sport, not a violent sport.
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Is Marquette running a university or a sports program?
Is Marquette a university or a glorified Marriott?
Are student athletes cash cows for the university?
When Marquette discontinued football for a host of reasons including cost, most players left the university. Obvioisly they were at Marquette to play football.
We may draw players from around the country + Canada, but I don't think many if any students come to Marquette because it has a lacrosse program.
I find broad brushes helpful in framing discussions. I have learned interesting information from this "broad brush" discussion.
When I did H.S. recruiting I found high school seniors and their parents to be very fickle. One year it was all about journalism, the next veternary medicine, then compiter science or accounting.
The university would craft offerings to fit what was on t.v.. Now the big thing is criminology or forensics. (Talk about fads)
My point being, if we want an elite image go all the way, crew, squash, fencing, OLYMPIC sports.
If we want our brand on the field with Johns Hopkins, Princeton, or Duke I suppose marketing trumps reason, my reason. Go Marquette, beat NAVY, Holy Cross and N.D. our cohort, cost what may.
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Shortly after I moved to Charlotte, I refereed high school boys lacrosse for one year. I also reffed junior high and youth league lacrosse. The sport is very popular here.
I went through extensive training but I was still a newby, so I was always the "junior official" on the field, and was always placed with an experienced partner.
I had watched only a little lacrosse before doing this, so I was surprised at how violent the sport is at the high school level. There is a lot of body-to-body contact, and the violence is especially notable in the stick play. The stick is basically a legal weapon.
There are three degrees of penalties -- 1 minute, 2 minutes and 3 minutes. Many of the penalties are similar to hockey (interference, holding, tripping, etc). Only the most egregious infractions received 2-minute penalties. During all the games I worked, no infraction ever was assigned 3 minutes. The vast majority were 1 minute.
Again, as a newby, anytime I threw my penalty flag, I had to confer with my more experienced partner before meting out the punishment.
One time, a kid took a vicious two-handed hack with his stick and hit an opponent so hard that the victim crumbled to the ground. A wound was opened up on the side of the neck, and a little blood was trickling out a small cut. It wasn't a "gusher," but I thought it was really bad, especially for high school.
I huddled with my partner and said, "That's got to be 3, right?"
"Nope, it's only a 2."
"What the hell has to happen for it to be a 3? Does the head actually have to be detached from the body and start rolling down the field?"
"It's a 2."
"Okey dokey then. It's a 2."
That was my only season doing lacrosse. I didn't quit because of the violence but because I decided to focus more on basketball and baseball.
The body-on-body play is similar to a physical basketball game ... but basketball players aren't given a weapon.
All that being said, I have absolutely no problem with Marquette having a lacrosse program. I've even watched parts of a few games and have been entertained, and it was cool when we made the NCAAs. Those who don't like it are not forced to watch it, and I don't think having a relatively violent sport says anything bad about the university.
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In general I am a big fan of MU having made the commitment to Lacrosse.
The visibility it gives to MU athletics and academics in the top Athletic High Schools in the US is very helpful . The ACC and Big Ten have made a commitment to the sport and it helps that the Big East has a strong commitment as well. High school kids travel in similar circles for training and participate in multiple sports.
The sport requires a unique combination of hand to eye coordination, speed, lateral quickness, strength and endurance combined with basketball style IQ. Very fun to watch. The best players on any given college team generally have the athletic ability or opportunity to play other D1 sports.
MU has proven to be competitive in a short time and I think they can actually be a consistent team in the upper tier of the sport.
The sport has worked hard to overcome the douche bag factor, but it still lingers in a small way as evidenced by the fact that MU coach had to suspend 19 kids before a game last year . I think any collision sport and especially one that has sticks is going to have similar issues. A good coach can keep a lid on it .
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Shortly after I moved to Charlotte, I refereed high school boys lacrosse for one year. I also reffed junior high and youth league lacrosse. The sport is very popular here.
I went through extensive training but I was still a newby, so I was always the "junior official" on the field, and was always placed with an experienced partner.
I had watched only a little lacrosse before doing this, so I was surprised at how violent the sport is at the high school level. There is a lot of body-to-body contact, and the violence is especially notable in the stick play. The stick is basically a legal weapon.
There are three degrees of penalties -- 1 minute, 2 minutes and 3 minutes. Many of the penalties are similar to hockey (interference, holding, tripping, etc). Only the most egregious infractions received 2-minute penalties. During all the games I worked, no infraction ever was assigned 3 minutes. The vast majority were 1 minute.
Again, as a newby, anytime I threw my penalty flag, I had to confer with my more experienced partner before meting out the punishment.
One time, a kid took a vicious two-handed hack with his stick and hit an opponent so hard that the victim crumbled to the ground. A wound was opened up on the side of the neck, and a little blood was trickling out a small cut. It wasn't a "gusher," but I thought it was really bad, especially for high school.
I huddled with my partner and said, "That's got to be 3, right?"
"Nope, it's only a 2."
"What the hell has to happen for it to be a 3? Does the head actually have to be detached from the body and start rolling down the field?"
"It's a 2."
"Okey dokey then. It's a 2."
That was my only season doing lacrosse. I didn't quit because of the violence but because I decided to focus more on basketball and baseball.
The body-on-body play is similar to a physical basketball game ... but basketball players aren't given a weapon.
All that being said, I have absolutely no problem with Marquette having a lacrosse program. I've even watched parts of a few games and have been entertained, and it was cool when we made the NCAAs. Those who don't like it are not forced to watch it, and I don't think having a relatively violent sport says anything bad about the university.
MU82,
For a moment there I thought I had a compadre and then I got to your conclusion. I guess I just don't hang out with SUV moms.
When I read your story to my wife she got physically upset. It just goes to show how out of touch we actually are.
Thanks anyway, your story gave my position an ounce of support.
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Yet again with your tolerance and acceptance you lecture us all on. Doesn’t wholly agree with your position so you have to toss a cheap shot at him. Must be a charmed life to get “physically upset” over a HS breeding during a sporting event.
Kudos for at least realizing you’re out of touch. Let us know how your campaign for MU’s dressage team goes with the Athletic Department.
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Yet again with your tolerance and acceptance you lecture us all on. Doesn’t wholly agree with your position so you have to toss a cheap shot at him. Must be a charmed life to get “physically upset” over a HS breeding during a sporting event.
Kudos for at least realizing you’re out of touch. Let us know how your campaign for MU’s dressage team goes with the Athletic Department.
I think football would more interesting if the players had pugil sticks.
We are talking about lacrosse so cheap shots are more than appropriate.
I was pretty good with pugil sticks back in the day. Great training for police academy recruits or Marines.
Marquette was doing fine before lacrosse, it will do fine after lacrosse.
To each his own, hurah.
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If only we could all strive to only play Vogue approved civilized sports. That aren't elitist like Tennis, golf or polo at the country club, perhaps sailing at the yacht club. You know, civilized sports with low barriers to get good at that are WASP approved.
Probably shouldn't play basketball at MU either because it occasionally gets physical especially below the basket. God forbid a fight breaks out.
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If only we could all strive to only play Vogue approved civilized sports. That aren't elitist like Tennis, golf or polo at the country club, perhaps sailing at the yacht club. You know, civilized sports with low barriers to get good at that are WASP approved.
Probably shouldn't play basketball at MU either because it occasionally gets physical especially below the basket. God forbid a fight breaks out.
I see a difference between "physicality" and uncivilized. I don't see hitting someone with a stick as a civilized sport. An accident is one thing, taking a two handed swing at someones head/neck is another. And it is only a 2 min. foul?
WASP, OLYMPIC, is one thing, organized mayhem another.
The NCAA is always trying to make their sports safer. The flagrant head shot in basketball is a good example. Ejection for a flagrant foul is appropriate.
I'm going to let go of this topic, have at it, swing away, hone your skills, get on t.v., hang with the surban elite schools. Sorry I even brought it up, how foolish of me.
I'll stick with my inner city sports, drum line, handball, basketball and stick ball.
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I see a difference between "physicality" and uncivilized. I don't see hitting someone with a stick as a civilized sport. An accident is one thing, taking a two handed swing at someones head/neck is another. And it is only a 2 min. foul?
WASP, OLYMPIC, is one thing, organized mayhem another.
The NCAA is always trying to make their sports safer. The flagrant head shot in basketball is a good example. Ejection for a flagrant foul is appropriate.
I'm going to let go of this topic, have at it, swing away, hone your skills, get on t.v., hang with the surban elite schools. Sorry I even brought it up, how foolish of me.
I'll stick with my inner city sports, drum line, handball, basketball and stick ball.
Right tell the guy that grew up in the city Of Chicago till he was 15 and played Freshman lacrosse at a CPS school all about how suburban I am compared to your oh so urban self in New Jersey.
Next you'll be telling me any minority kids I played with don't count because it's lacrosse or that lane tech wasn't inner city enough
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I'll stick with my inner city sports, drum line, handball, basketball and stick ball.
Handball and stickball were fads.
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Handball and stickball were fads.
Fads were the last topic.
Killer handball lives on in the city, some fads take a long time to go away.
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Big East Women's Lacrosse expansion.
Xavier Athletics Announces The Addition Of Women's Lacrosse
Women's lacrosse will be Xavier's 19th sport
05.16.21
https://goxavier.com/news/2021/5/16/athletic-department-xavier-athletics-announces-the-addition-of-womens-lacrosse.aspx
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Big East Women's Lacrosse expansion.
Xavier Athletics Announces The Addition Of Women's Lacrosse
Women's lacrosse will be Xavier's 19th sport
05.16.21
https://goxavier.com/news/2021/5/16/athletic-department-xavier-athletics-announces-the-addition-of-womens-lacrosse.aspx
Smart economic move by X . Will attract 45 students that otherwise may not have gone to school there . Fields are likely already in place . Costs 12 scholarship so 33 net paying students which more than offsets costs of coaches .
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This was a wild read.