Men’s soccer
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Sarcasm aside, I can see a day 50 years from now, where Soccer is a bigger NCAA sport than football. Perhaps cultivating a strong soccer culture NOW playing at JTS could lead to ISU being a future power! Just a thought that I have had myself.Maybe ISU should field a soccer team instead of football. It seems like we want a low scoring game, and soccer sure fills the bill.
Gonna have to build a soccer specific stadium downtown.
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Soccer is growing in America. I get the title 9 thing but I’m wondering if it would be wise to drop another mens sport so we could get a team together. Probably not but mens soccer would be a better sport to have than baseball. Even though I’m a baseball fan.
The only ones we have are Football, Basketball, Golf, Track & Field and Wrestling.
Not too many options for dropping a Men's sport
With college baseball's early start to the season and seemingly greater expenses, it does seem like soccer would be a better option even though I too am a bigger baseball fan. Financially doesn't make sense to do either now though.
And Cross Country. Does Track & Field count as two since it has indoor and outdoor?
Ironically I just looked it up after i posted it. Forgot that title 9 was number of
Participants and not number of sports. Football just has so many players . Women have ten sports and I was thinking the men had more sports than what we do.
Assuming a fully-funded program, that would make ISU's scholarships 54.8% male/45.2% female. The enrollment at the university this fall is 54.8% male/45.2% female.
The bigger issue is that men's soccer isn't a Big 12 sport. West Virginia plays in the Sun Belt (along with two SEC schools). Iowa State would have to play in the MAC or Missouri Valley.
ISU has 7 men's sports and 11 women's sports. Indoor track, outdoor track, and cross country are all considered separate by the NCAA because they each have their own championships/seasons.
Although it's extremely unrealistic, I would love it honestly. It would be a really affordable sport to start up, as infrastructure is already in place, unlike baseball.
Big 10 only has 9 soccer schools so I wonder if we could join them to make it 10.
UCLA will make it 10 in a couple of years (not that 11 wouldn't work either).
How would the conference thing work with the field. The artificial field has the Big 12 logo on it. Would that cause any issues.
I’d like to see adding men’s soccer but like o th era don’t know how feasible it is.
I’d like to see adding men’s soccer but like o th era don’t know how feasible it is.
It's all a thought exercise anyway, because adding sports isn't a priority.
As for the field, it's going to be changed over to natural grass soon.
