Actually the growth of women's sports would help schools retain more men's sports because of the way title nine is written. If they don't add women's sport then more men's teams must go to balance it. but the truth is if it made money for them Lacrosse would be added as a varsity sport to most schools.
My thought is to allow all 59 schools to be in the ncaa D1 playoffs, crowds would grow because after their team lost some would still come to see Lacrosse played at the level of the playoffs.
would be great for the sport but then its back to the money