This will be very bad for D1 lacrosse. Basically, the divide between haves and have nots will widen with more discretion to the conferences. The money is huge, but now college football inc. and college basketball inc. are saying they want more controls over the pot and will take the amateur notion out of the equation and pay players a stipend. If any of you ever played a D1 sport you know exactly what that means. Football and basketball bakes everyone's bread and butter it too. Non revenue sports are going to be acutely affected by that because there is no tier of urgency to take care of some volleyball, soccer or lacrosse player. It sounds more like kill or be killed now, so if lacrosse can figure out a revenue model like the article implies...sell tickets, swag, fund raise endowments for specific programs, etc. ...then great. If not, in the real case your sons can look forward to what it was like being a non-revenue athlete in the 1980s. Long bus rides, lots and lots of Holiday Inns and barely passable TGI Fridays meals on the road. There will be exceptions at some big ACC or Big10 type places, but in general college lacrosse will be a grander version of high school lacrosse.
