NCAA sports of the future?

Submitted by DISCUSS Man on

NCAA sports of the future. What are they? There was talk not that long ago making horse jumping aka Equestrian a sport. The NCAA eventually went back on it and are now not sponsoring Equestrian so Big 12 schools have to look somewhere else to compete.

NOW! Let's draft some new NCAA sports. My choices-

  • Broomball
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Handball
  • Ping Pong (it's an olympic sport.....no really)
  • Dodgeball

*takes a deep breath*

 

DISCUSS

Canadian

April 24th, 2015 at 8:38 PM ^

Crashed ice!! I was watching red bull crashed ice the other night on tv and thought to myself "why isn't this in the Olympics yet?" There has been events added to the summer games that are right out of the x games and a few winter events too.
Crashed Ice is fucking awesome but don't think it'd be big in NCAA sport

acnumber1

April 24th, 2015 at 8:56 PM ^

 

The teams take turns sending a "raider" into the other half. To win a point, the raider must take a breath, run into the opposing half, tag one or more members of the opposite team, then return to his home half before inhaling again.[15] The raider will chant "kabaddi, kabaddi" with his exhaling breath to show the referee he has not inhaled.[15] The raider will be declared "out" and will not gain the point if he inhales before returning to his side, or returns without touching an opponent.[15] The tagged defender(s) will be "out" if they do not succeed in catching the raider who tagged them.[15]Wrestling the raider to the ground can prevent him escaping before he needs to inhale.[15]

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi

Wolverine Devotee

April 24th, 2015 at 9:17 PM ^

I'm B1G Defensive Player of the Year if that's a sport.

I once played a game where I blocked 6 shots and forced 2 fumbles by slamming my car into the ball carrier so hard it jarred the ball loose. 

/s

 

acnumber1

April 24th, 2015 at 9:41 PM ^

Used to be a court/field/arena at the old Wayside Theater (post-theater life) across from Ypsi-Arbor Lanes near Washtenaw and Golfside.  Also used to be a court/field/arena in the warehouse district across from the AA airport.  Now I think the closest is in Novi or Canton or Livonia.

 

Some call it a sport others call it humility.

LSAClassOf2000

April 24th, 2015 at 9:01 PM ^

If I had to guess, I would guess Parrises Squares, even though ST:TNG and later series never really made the rules precisely clear even though it sounded interesting enough just based on the anecdotes they would work in to scenes in Ten Forward or other places where folks would congregate. 

If the NCAA - in a fashion true to its form - would be persuaded to make a go of lawn darts or marbles, that would be acceptable, except I have this image of groups like the Orange Pride getting rather friendly with top-rated marbles recruits. 

KO Stradivarius

April 24th, 2015 at 10:20 PM ^

My daughter rides HS equestrian.  As much as I hate to say it, it seems to be a shrinking sport.  Those girls are tough and it takes a lot of talent and hard work to succeed.  But the pool of people willing and able to keep horses or find one to lease, etc, is dwindling.  It's a sport of kings but seems like the future isn't there. 

UM competes as a club team sport in the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association as do Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University, University of Western Ontario, Ferris State University, Saginaw State University, Oakland University, Central Michigan University, Hillsdale College, Albion College, Adrian Collge, and Calvin College. The college or university that is hosting a competition provides horses.  This is a grass-roots organization doing the good stuff to keep people involved at the college level that love horses.

GRBluefan

April 24th, 2015 at 11:46 PM ^

Would be awesome. Especially if the entire campus was in play. Would really create some interesting home field advantages. Where in Ann Arbor would the wolverines chose to put their flag? Bell tower, perhaps?

kyllthan8

April 24th, 2015 at 11:46 PM ^

In all seriousness CrossFit will probably become a real recognized sport at some time and something the NCAA would look at as it continues to increase in popularity. Also because essentially anyone can compete/participate it would probably be a good thing

Zarniwoop

April 24th, 2015 at 11:50 PM ^

Kick the can. I probably spent 5000 hours playing this growing up in my neighborhood.

But the best game from my childhood was Puntball.

We marked off a small field  in my front lawn and one person was the punter and the other the returner.  Punter had to stop the returner.  If you could kick the ball over the street, you scored.  If youi kicked it into the street, the returner scored. If you tackled the returner into the well pump, he got really hurt and that was the end of the game for the day. 6-man puntball was even better. No offensive plays, just back and forth kick returns.

DrewGOBLUE

April 25th, 2015 at 1:31 AM ^

It might be cool if skiing and snowboarding were a thing, like the superpipe stuff in the Winter Olympics/X-Games. Probably not something that everybody would be gung-ho about, but it's usually exciting to watch and I'd bet for some people it'd grow on them.

Plus the SEC would be the only conference where every single school is naturally excluded.