Author:
An Observer
[ Edit | View ]
|
Date Posted: 10:19:34 05/26/26 Tue
My take is similar to that of sparman's. First, the differential between what Ivy lacrosse coaches make and what the so-called big boys do is much smaller than exists in men's basketball or even women's basketball.
I would guess that, in lacrosse, a deficit earned by an Ivy coach can be overcome by summer camps and other secondary sources of income. In other words, if you're willing to hustle and try to monetize your time, you can probably get close to what the guy at Virginia is making.
The bigger question is where you are better situated to win.
At Northwestern, Berube can win a bigger conference title and conceivably even a national title, as the Wildcats have done in field hockey and women's lacrosse this year. She's not winning a national title working out of Jadwin Gym.
But in lacrosse, an Ivy coach can actually win it all. Indeed, it looks like lacrosse will actually be able to resist the downward pressure in basketball and some other Olympic sports. In basketball, we lose our best players to Michigan and Florida. Nobody's transferred out of the league in lacrosse yet (without his Ivy degree).
I think the big difference is that an Ivy League degree has a higher value to the kind of suburban, often private school kid who plays lacrosse and wants to work in finance, law or other traditional Ivy careers.
Nobody disagrees that Berube is in a much bigger pond at Northwestern. What does Virginia offer a head coach from Princeton, Cornell or Yale who has already lifted the big trophy?
Obviously, it's a different calculus for one of his assistants.
[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
|
Feedback: 