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[QUOTE="TexanMark, post: 366864, member: 35"]
Isn't Loyola joining a league that has lacrosse?
 
Yes Hopkins would be awesome... but guys need to think bigger picture. You add Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan as partial members and the ACC could help shape and grow lacrosse.  I think the ACC will get an exclusive weekly GOTW on ESPNU the current 6 powerhouses in the ACC...but adding B10 schools broaden the audience and includes three huge flagships. Eventually you could see multiple games televised on ESPN/2/U during the regular season involving all these schools.

As for partial members...this would be most likely temporary as I predict other B10 schools would add a team (Northwestern, Wisconsin, IU) and they would eventually break away. Lacrosse has a few advantages over college baseball (can be played in rain and snow, games last 2 hours so TV programming is predictable, and the game is more popular than the pro version).

Finally, one other side benefit...if the ACC starts talking about this maybe it will finally get 1 or 2 of these schools (VTech, NCSt, WF, FSU,Clemson) off their ass and upgrade.

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I understand the program building argument...why does the ACC/Cuse have to help build program build...especially since we are n longer dominant...well I put that on Desko and the fact that this is the natural progression if the sport is to grow.
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