Personally, I would love to see men's soccer added. Soccer has become a huge grade school and high school sport in America. It would be great to see us offer high school players in Mississippi a place to play at the next level.
Sport you would like to see added at State
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None, we don't need to waste the money
Personally, I'd like to see men's soccer. But Cooterpoot is right. With our limited resources, we need to field the minimum for membership in the SEC. We'd have to cut track & field or golf to add men's soccer.
gymnastics 
or men's soccer
or men's soccerI literally just logged in to post this same thing. Those sports can’t cost that much to fund!! And there are so few schools playing them, we’d possibly have shots at Nattys.
I wish the SEC in general would drop track and field (12.6 scholarships for men) and add men's soccer (9.9 scholarships). Do they ever televise men's track and field? I would think Men's soccer would would get relatively decent ratings between the non-revenue sports.
ETA: Another benefit for Men's soccer: With 9.9 scholarships, if you gave 1/3 scholarship to each player, they'd probably save money compared to what they were paying to play travel soccer. So you could get a lot of students, generally from affluent families, that might not otherwise come to MSU.
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Is soccer a full ride at other schools in the country?
It also seems as if the clubs are training up their own players. Do college soccer players generally go on to MLS or whatever?
I'd rather see baseball become fully funded.
It also seems as if the clubs are training up their own players. Do college soccer players generally go on to MLS or whatever?
I'd rather see baseball become fully funded.
Don't have anything to compare it to, but LSU's beach VB complex is nice AND you can drink beer. Their students seemed to be into it and having a good time.
If we were to add a sport, it would likely be beach volleyball because it could be done relatively cheaply. It basically allows you to add a sport without the need to increase the number of student athletes you're providing scholarships for. And since it's a women's sport, it helps with Title IX.
It's high time baseball got more schollies. Has NIL helped us on that ?
New sport? I would LMAO if we won a natty in cornhole.
Gymnastics or swimming, just seems a little minor league that we don't have either.
Hey, our budget isn't big enough to support everything we need to compete in the SEC yet let's add some more minor non-revenue sports so so that a few more kids can play ball. Yea, it don't cost much...facilities, coaches, staff, player training, travel, medical, etc, etc....
Rifle. Only because the **** heeels up north have one and I know damn well our people can out shoot their people, and it's high time we showed em.
No way I want that unmasculine eurotrash sport. If I wanted to watch grown men flop I would watch Ole Miss play defense.
There's more beach volleyball out there than you think in D1, it's mainly in FL and CA.
Probably helped in terms of competing with most schools. But with the NIL money LSU is reportedly pumping into their baseball teams probably puts us further behind any of the really big schools that want to be serious about winning national titles in baseball.
Axe throwing. Being a school with a forestry program, recruiting should be an advantage to us.
Other than LSU and maybe Vandy, I have a hard time believing others are ahead of us in NIL Baseball. Am I wrong?
I’m not even sure about Vandy. With the money a lot of the big schools are spending on football, it’s hard to think many of them would decide to divert some to baseball.
I guess I was thinking about those scholly advantage #'s Vandy has had prior to NIL.
I use the same logic to argue why we should have real grass in foul territory at DNF since we have Turf Management Program.
Horse Park and Vet School on campus with no Equestrian Team has always baffled me…
I like the logic that we should have real grass because it’s a baseball field.
Have a daughter who is really into gymnastics. Went to the SEC championship (or whatever it’s called). I wore a state shirt to confuse people. It was an experience unlike an anything I have ever seen. You have four events happening at the same time. There is music blaring nonstop like you are at a club. The girls are going nuts like they are at a party. Damn near put me into sensory overload. My daughters were eating it up. As a girl dad i would really like for state to add gymnastics. Watching my daughter wear LSU, Auburn, and Florida garb is hurting my feelings.
MSU has a team. We are in the IHSA rather than the NCEA. Very few are in the NCEA, last I saw.
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