SEC Adds Rowing

I thought it already was an SEC sport. Ever since I can remember, Bama fans have been yelling "Row Tide."

 

Tennessee already has rowing, but I do not any other SEC schools that do.

I think we should use the Santa Fe River. Of course, you have to row under water at times.

 

Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma also have NCAA Rowing squads.

 

Seems like we could add sports with actual fields of play easier for practice and fan attendance. How would a row program work in Gainesville in terms of location? Would it be men and women? As hard some are trying to do away with title 9 it's still there so I assume this would not be mens rowing correct?

 

There are both men (think NE schools like Harvard and Boston U) and women's NCAA programs, but the majority are women. SEC will be a women sport. It's an inexpensive program to run for Title IX compliance. The lake that UF owns for recreation south of Gainesville..it starts with a "W"..? That could be ideal. I'd rather have Beach Volleyball, but I don't trust anything that former UF President Sasse has said anymore.

 

Three SEC schools have Beach Volleyball teams-LSU, South Carolina and Texas (2025 will be their third year as a program). I read other SEC schools are considering adding Beach Volleyball like Alabama and Arkansas. SEC will sponsor a league Championship if the sport is part of at least 25% of all SEC's athletic departments. IMHO we should add both Rowing and Beach Volleyball. Then we can add Men's Soccer. It is such a huge sport in Florida with nearly all high schools having a boy's soccer team. UF would have the potential to be competitive right out the gate for NCAA titles, just like the women's team did winning the NCAA title in only their 4th year competing.

 

Better odds of dropping a sport vs adding m soccer. NIL is stretching the dollars and adding a large roster sport is highly unlikely.
Beach volleyball is cheap and serves title IX, women's crew would also fit that narrative....pretty much the only hope for new sports

 

UF already has a very good and strong rowing club. The club has both women and men. They have won several national championships. They row on Newmans Lake east of campus on University Avenue.

Most of the SEC schools without a varsity rowing team currently have rowing clubs. The SEC does not currently have enough teams to have an automatic qualifier from the conference to the NCAA national championship. Tennessee this past year lured the SMU coach and many of her athletes to Knoxville. I have no idea why they spent that money, nor have I seen any effort to expand the number of SEC schools with varsity programs. Since many of the SEC schools already have rowing clubs in place, it would seem a moderately low-cost way to add the sport.

The NCAA only recognizes women’s rowing. NCAA rowing has been driven in large part to have a sport that adds bodies to the Title IX scorecard. The effect has been that many universities that once had men’s rowing dropped the men to club and started a varsity women’s team.

 

Need more women’s sports to offset increased football ships and full baseball ships expected in future.

 

it still amazies me people bitch about football scholies and title 9.do they not believe there would not be women's sports without the revenue football generates

 

Who is bitching about it?

 

Unless something changes with Sasse’s departure, women’s beach volleyball is next.

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there are a lot out there that think there should be equal schollies to football even if there is no comparable sport just want 85 more womens.

 

Newnans Lake a perfect venue for sculling/rowing.

 

Per Volley Talk (from April, 2023):

Could Florida be on the verge of adding a new NCAA sport?
Yes, we’re told

Don’t be surprised if the Gators someday soon have a women’s beach volleyball program. In the Southeast, schools such as Florida State, LSU and South Carolina already have programs and Florida could be next.
Given the Gators’ great success in volleyball, its popularity at Florida, and the fact it’s such a big sport at the high school level in the Sunshine State and beyond, this makes sense. It’s also fairly inexpensive.
It sounds like the playing facility would be at or near the Southwest Recreation Center.
Beach volleyball became an NCAA championship sport in 2015. The first National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship was held in 2016. Southern California, with four national titles, has established itself early as the sport’s top program.

An announcement on this sport’s addition at Florida could happen in the near future.

Whenever we do add either Beach Volleyball or Rowing (or both), we can finally add a men's sport. The SEC prefers that all schools have two more women's sports programs than men's, to stay compliant with Title IX. We already have two more women's teams. Adding another would give us three more than men's, and we will finally be able to add men's soccer. I think with all the talented elite soccer players there are in the state, we would quickly become a national power.

 

Wouldn't hold my breath on another mens team. With the NIL expenses on the horizon can't imagine they add a large roster sport like M soccer

 

Beach volleyball would seem to make a lot more sense to me than rowing. JMO.

 

Not to mention title 9