Next Varsity sports at Michigan?

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

What should they be? Since the discussion kind of broke out in the thread Men's Rowing club winning their 8th straight national championship, I figure I'd expand it to the board.

For every men's team added, a woman's team has to be added as well. 

Sports Michigan could add. Men's Rowing is sponsored by the IRA instead of the NCAA (for now)

  • Bowling
     
  • M/W Fencing
     
  • W Hockey
     
  • M/W Rifle
     
  • M Rowing
     
  • M/W Skiing
     
  • Sand Volleyball
     
  • M Volleyball
     
  • M Water Polo

Sand Volleyball will officially become an NCAA sport in 2015-16.

Would be pretty cheap to add along with Men's Rowing. Here's a list of schools that have Sand Volleyball-

Nebraska is one of the schools that's on that list.

Here is USC's sand volleyball stadium that probably cost them $500 to build-

 

 

Which of these sports would you like to see added?

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Wolverine Devotee

May 25th, 2015 at 7:36 PM ^

Water Polo played 31 of 32 games this season on the road. Many of them on the West coast.

In the program's history, it has played 567 games with only 136 of them coming at home meaning Michigan Water Polo has traveled elsewhere for 76% of its 567 all-time games.

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Commie_High96

May 26th, 2015 at 11:48 AM ^

Yes, and although I am good friends with former coach Matt Anderson, I think water polo should likely not be a sport at UM. All the talent is in California and Arizona and convincing a 17 year old Californian to leave for UM is really hard. It got even harder when Princeton, Harvard and Brown started giving massive student aid. So now UM has scholarship limitations and the Ivies basically don't.

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WolvinLA2

May 26th, 2015 at 12:32 AM ^

And Michigan would get smoked.  These kids spend all year playing beach volleyball out here - it's a way of life.  I know Michigan has other sports where they recuit almost exclusively out of state, but this is a sport that's really hard to train for in the winter.  If you grew up playing beach volleyball, you aren't going to play at a college that isn't near the beach.

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rob f

May 25th, 2015 at 8:09 PM ^

for Michigan if we added a beech volleyball team.

Although they're known for their massive size and impressive wingspans, the fact remains that they are completely immobile and our volleyball team should have no problem threadding the needle and scoring against their tall but awkward defensive efforts...

Beech_Tree 

... Beech on Winter Street in Framingham. The tree has a circumference of

I think a typical game would be extremely lopsided in our favor, not at all unlike a recent soccer mis-match between a team of Doctors and the Long John Silvers Club:

 

 

 

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elm

May 26th, 2015 at 7:55 AM ^

I like your thinking, good sir, but you clearly have the wrong trees playing the game.  Willows are known to be the best at volleyball as their drooping branches give them a great ability to spike the ball.

Plus, trees are more mobile than you think.  In recent years, some have become very ent-ish and if the opposing team were made up of plant-haters likes orcs or cornhuskers, the trees could move quite swiftly to defeat them.

About the only problem I see, though, is that sand is not really our natural soil.  If it were dirt volleyball, we'd be unstoppable.

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justingoblue

May 25th, 2015 at 8:12 PM ^

Canada and the US look really good when they're playing anyone else (I do watch when they play each other, it's a cool rivalry).

Granted, the rest of the world basically puts pylons out there for them to play against, but it's kind of like watching option football in slow motion; you can almost point to the next move and there's something really cool about that.

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