Given its academic profile and the success of its women's team, Stanford offers a perfect fit for Division I men's lacrosse. It wouldn't be as hard as you'd think. Corey Mc. Laughlin . The move came after Arizona State said it would add a varsity women's team, giving the conference six NCAA Division I programs, enough to qualify for an NCAA tournament berth automatic qualifying bid. That got us thinking — er, more realistically, dreaming — about a Pac- 1. What could it look like and what would need to happen? Teams. First things first, the Pac- 1. There are 1. 2 already playing at the MCLA level, but we want to be somewhat realistic and not greedy. Synonyms for dreams at Thesaurus.com with free online thesaurus, antonyms, and definitions. Dictionary and Word of the Day. His plan for starting his own business was just a pipe dream. Here are seven candidates: USCStarted a varsity women's program in 2. NCAA tournament, and has at least discussed the men's possibility internally. Colorado. Has an elite MCLA program and added women's lacrosse in 2. The school has only five men's sports, the lowest of any Pac- 1. Stanford. The private school with a second- to- none academic reputation seems like a perfect fit. Its women's program has been successful for a long time. Arizona State. You would think if ASU really wanted men's lacrosse, they would have found a way to add it with its women's program. But we said this is a dream. UCLAFootball coach Jim Mora is a huge lacrosse fan.
His son, Ryder, is committed to play at Maryland. If the Bruins had a team, he could stay home. Washington. A place to look at for all the kids playing in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon. Already has a women's program and would have the coolest Nike uniforms on the left side of the Mississippi River. Schedule. It might take some thinking, but not much, to craft regular season schedules that don't break the bank and jetlag players and coaches all spring long to games in traditional East Coast hotbeds. A full conference schedule played in the West definitely helps, meaning not having one or two Pac- 1. Denver's situation with the Big East now. Pioneers coach Bill Tierney, the wizard in the West, knows travel. You're only going across country twice, and you're looking at 1. And how about eastern teams going west for their own spring breaks? Denver, Maryland, North Carolina and Notre Dame have done so in some combination in the last three Pacific Coast Shootouts in California. NCAA Tourney Access. Startup Division I men's programs can find it hard to get quality opponents on the schedule. The RPI metric is so important for NCAA tournament selection and seeding that top teams don't want to take a numbers hit. That's why a conference affiliation is huge to guarantee games and the league champion access to the NCAA tourney. College athletic directors are judged, too, and love to boost their school in the less- publicly- followed Directors' Cup, which ranks a school based on the performance of all of its teams. Things like 5. 0 points for a league championship don't hurt. Stanford has finished first every year since 1. TVAnother sponsored sport means more content for the Pac- 1. See what the Big Ten Network did with men's and women's lacrosse last year? Scholarships. The reality is Division I men's lacrosse has a very low ratio of scholarships to roster size. Schools are getting a financial deal for the most part in the lacrosse world, but still program funding has to come from somewhere. There are Title IX requirements to consider, too. With football in the gender- equity equation at all Pac- 1. We don't see Pac- 1. Facilities. When big- time schools go in on any sport, they go all- in. Former Michigan AD Dave Brandon said after the Big Ten Wolverines added varsity men's lacrosse, . The conclusion is that the Libertarian Party might do to Trump what the Reform Party did to George H. W. Bush. But the establishment exodus is not a sign of troubles ahead for Trump, but rather a necessary purging. Trump is merely reclaiming a party that was overrun by neoconservatives who trace their origins back to the Democrat Party. These neocon squatters came to the GOP disenchanted with George Mc. Govern . Paul Ryan may try and claim the moral mantle of Republicanism, but his brand is one that perverts traditional conservatism. So if these individuals feel a disdain for a Trump campaign that is restoring Republicanism, their departure is not a loss. And the fact they are fleeing to the Libertarian Party merely demonstrates that these Republican refugees are without power, authority, and influence. What exactly does the Libertarian Party (not to be confused with libertarianism) have to offer these exiles or America? It has a vice presidential candidate who thinks that enforcing immigration laws is the same as Hitlerism. Then there is the national chairman hopeful who decided to strip naked, while on television, during the national convention. The man atop the ticket, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, is a pot connoisseur who told the Daily Caller in March that he had consumed marijuana edibles just weeks before the interview. If Johnson loves pot on the campaign trail, will Mary Jane be his chief of staff? Pushing aside the fact that the Libertarian Party resembles one of the three rings at Ringling Brothers, the party is marginal at best. Not exactly a great record for a party that has been around for four decades. Can we really say that this is a party that should be taken seriously on the national stage? Or, better yet, should be taken seriously period? The party. Both Ron and Rand have brought Libertarian ideals to the GOP and, in doing so, have done more to advance the cause of liberty than the entire Libertarian Party. Make no mistake; aspects of libertarianism are positive and prudent, but the Libertarian Party has serious issues that have nothing to do with ideology. The Orlando striptease is just the tip of the iceberg. And the fact that rejected Republicans are treating it as Syrians are treating Europe will only add to the party. Just look what happened when Pat Buchanan moved to the Reform Party in 2. Trump has nothing to worry about. But for those Republican refugees seeking amnesty in the party this election cycle, one can only hope Johnson is generous with his brownies. Joseph R. Murray II is a conservative commentator, former campaign official for Pat Buchanan, and author of Odd Man Out.
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