blog #22- benefits to universities.

Todays post is about how lacrosse as a sanctioned sport would benefit college universities. Some ways that it would be good for college universities is that is has great potential to; attract more kids, the newness creates excitement, adds different demographic to the school, the fans love the sport so more people to college events, and could possibly fix title 9. The more athletes attending a university the merrier. With lacrosse growing as rapidly as it is in Utah, the chances of players wanting to attend a school in the state and play their sport is very high. I know from personal experience that I was drawn to the idea of playing at the college level in this state, but was quickly shot down because of the costs of playing, if I wanted to go on scholarship I would have to leave the state for sure! So this would benefit the universities majorly! Lacrosse players would be running in left and right to attend the schools here. The newness of the game creates excitement! We all know how fun it is when something new is added to the norm, and in college it is nothing but tradition and norm. If lacrosse was added it would attract several new fans because they would be so interested in what the sport is, and because it is such a fun, fast paced game, the fans would keep on coming! It is a great opportunity for the university to get advertising out again and reboot the love that previous students had at the school, new upcoming students, and simply just fans. It would create popularity to the school, and it could be really beneficial if the teams did good in their conference and won a lot of games, it could add trophies and records to that school. Adding a new sport would create a lot of attraction, therefore it would add diversity to the campus. It could attract all sorts of races, different types of athletes, etc. One of the biggest benefits that would occur would be the potential to fix the title 9 issue in colleges. Title 9 is when there is not an equal amount of men's and women's sports at a university. There is men's football and there needs to be another girls team, so women's lacrosse could fix the issue. There are several benefits to adding lacrosse in utah and then in university's.