We could do like nearly any one of those and also add scholarships in other sports.
You’re using inanities to dodge the actual point. Plenty of other schools find more sports than NU does and have done so for many years. NU has more money now than almost all of those schools ever have. There is NO logistical or budgetary argument that holds water, they are simply choosing not to.
No. While certain options might make some sense others do not for NU. We have very little land or places to put things that other programs can do easily. For example Hockey is probably impossible at NU. Simply no place to put it and the cost would be along the lines of the new FB practice facility. Venues at NU have been built or upgraded through donations. The money you talk of NU having can pay operating budgets but you are not going to pay for new venues with those funds. Reality is that if new facilities are going to be needed it will be a hard sell. So if new facilities are going to be needed, you have to have some alums that are likely going to have to champion the new sport.
You talk about all the money NU athletics has. Reality that is a relatively new situation. It really did not exist prior to recent BTN revenue shares. And unlike what you suggest, we have no where near as much to work with of other programs in the BIG (you know, the other programs we usually compete against) I would likely add most of the programs in the SEC. And our costs are significantly higher to do something than any other program in the BIG (higher scholarship costs, higher operating costs and higher cost of living for coaches)
I have no problem with the idea of wanting to add something like Men's LAX. I just recognize that there is a lot more to it than just deciding to do it. Furthermore, Title 9 adds a lot of complications. And before I would want to see Men's Lax added, I would want to see us fully funding the men's non revenue sports we currently have. Some have suggested shutting down a current men's sport to provide the scholarships for Men's LAX but the current sports they suggest are already underfunded as far a scholarships and to do so would just change one substandard program for another. The solution seems clear that the only way to do anything is to add additional women's sports.
The question is what they should be. Unless it is something that can use existing facilities it is likely a no go. It is nice that Men's Lax could use our current facilities but that does not help with that in order to add it, you have to have a way of adding women's sports and you have to have the facilities for them. And any you try to start has to be done from scratch. Most likely would seem to be gymnastics and/or water polo (OK, maybe rowing) and neither really works if they cannot be done using current facilities
