Why schools with larger budgets may eventually begin to dominate the sport of lacrosse it will not happen as quickly as you think or for the reasons you purport.

For those of you who don't know about Title 9 - the jist of it is that you must give the same amount of money and scholarships to womens varsity sport as you do mens. Period. There is no sliding scale or ratio to amount of money each sport brings in to the amount of scholarships they recieve, it is straight one for one.

This leads to a problem for schools with big football programs where they give 55 full scholarships a year (schools like ND, Michigan, etc). Where are you going to make up for those 55 scholarships on the womens side. Even if you create a full scholarship womens team in every man's sport - unless you create a womens football team you will always be 55 short.

So you begin 1. cutting mens sport entirely or creating womens sports and making them varsity and full scholarship in the same year. Men's sports have to be cut - for instance wrestling was cut at ND - even though they had a great team that competed with the Iowas and Nebraska's of the world. This is why it has taken Notre Dame 20 years to finally get scholarships - starting next year. They had to slowly create womens sport and make them varsity and give them the maximum number of scholarships. Notre Dame Womens Lacrosse has been around for 3 years and went straight to full scholarship.

So while those big schools MAY eventually have good lacrosse teams it will only be after they have created enough womens teams to make up for the football disparity AND by kissin the ass of their perspective ADs and convincing them that unlike ND wrestling or BC lacrosse their porgram should not be cut and eventually deserve scholarships.