<p>^ I believe a big target audience for the NCAA are the youth players. The 2 years in Boston the team closest to Boston was Syracuse and the crowds were the biggest in the history of the event … there certainly were a bunch of alums in the crowd … but the lion’s share of the crowd were youth players and their families and ex-players and their families. I think the NCAA is targeting high growth areas … and I believe Chicago is one of the areas where youth lax is taking off (could be wrong) … I do think it will be while before LA, SF, or Denver will host though.</p>
<p>Kalookakoo, I’ll presume your post was a joke, or that you never heard of Hakim Warrick at Syracuse, Kyle Harrison (College Player of the year) at Johns Hopkins, or NFL Hall of Fame member Jim Brown, a great running back (the glory days of the Cleveland Browns) whom is also the consensus greatest college lacrosse player of all time (Syracuse).</p>
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<p>you are missing the planning point and geographic points. Stadiums (stadia?) must bid on the tourney several years early. There are plenty of local NE colleges that could have been in the Foxboro finals, including UMass, Brown, Providence; Dartmouth is ~100 minutes away. In addition, many others are within a ~four hour drive – easy access for alums of the teams playing that day. There is no way those fans FLY to Chicago. It’s just not logical, nor economic. (Remember, the teams have to fly as well. A one-hour bus ride is a whole lot cheaper.)</p>
<p>btw: back to Foxboro in 2012.</p>
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<p>Don’t be sorry, just get a clue. Division 1 lacrosse colleges are listed here (mostly by conference). </p>
<p>[College</a> lacrosse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_lacrosse]College”>College lacrosse - Wikipedia)</p>
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<p>You need to get your map out as clearly you don’t know where Dartmouth is. More importantly, no perennial top 10 programs are within a four hour drive of Foxboro. So, ignoring your wish list of teams that might be in Foxboro, the teams that are likely to be there are traveling a long way. So, whether participant’s parents fly into Logan or O’Hare makes little difference. It’s no different than the basketball final four except it’s easier to get tickets.</p>
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<p>Oh contraire. I just drove from Boston to Hanover last month – it took approx. 90 minutes. </p>
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<p>Nope, not my wish list. (I even watch D3 games, so I like 'em all.)</p>
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<p>It is significantly different. There are 300+ D1 basketball schools spread across all 50 states and 5 time zones. There are 60 D1 lacrosse programs, only two of which exist outside of the eastern time zone (Denver and AFA). But more to my point, nearly all of them within a day’s drive of each other; many only ~4 hours away…</p>
<p>D1 Programs by State:</p>
<p>CO - 2
CT - 5
DC - 1
DE - 1
FL - 1
IN - 1
KY - 1
MA - 3
MD - 7
MI - 1
NC - 2
NH - 1
NJ - 2
NY - 15
OH - 1
PA - 9
RI - 3
SC - 1
VA - 2
VT - 1</p>
<p>you must’ve been speeding, it takes me 2.5 hours from my house in the Boston suburbs (and I live north of Boston too, nowhere near Foxboro)</p>
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<p>Google Maps has it at 154 miles and 2 hours 35 minutes. That’s if everything goes well. You must be an Internet Legend.</p>
<p>[College</a> lacrosse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_lacrosse]College”>College lacrosse - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Lacrosse in the United States is played at the collegiate level in both the club and sanctioned team sport. There are currently 60 NCAA sanctioned Division I men’s lacrosse teams, 33 Division II men’s lacrosse teams, 33 NAIA men’s lacrosse teams and 131 Division III men’s lacrosse teams. There are also currently 91 Division I women’s lacrosse teams, 37 Division II women’s lacrosse Teams, and 154 Division III women’s lacrosse teams. Almost 200 collegiate men’s club teams compete at the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association level, including most major universities in the United States. Another 100 schools have club teams in the National College Lacrosse League.</p>
<p>Div I, II, NAIA and III colleges
Mens - 257
Womens - 282</p>
<p>Club team colleges
300</p>
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<p>I left from a northern ‘burb, and was jes’ keepin’ up with traffic. :D</p>
<p>haha what? Lowell or Derry, NH?</p>
<p>Top 50 ranked High School Lacrosse teams in the U.s. and their locations:</p>
<p>[High</a> School Lacrosse Rankings - MaxPreps](<a href=“http://www.maxpreps.com/rankings/lacrosse/1/national.htm]High”>High School Lacrosse Rankings)</p>
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<p>Funny stuff. Yeah Derry might do it, perhaps Nashua. The northern Boston 'burbs …</p>
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<p>I’ve made the Boston to Hanover drive myself in a little over 90 minutes, maybe an hour an 45 minutes. I think the difference depends not only on traffic and whether you speed but also on where in Boston you are starting from. If you are on the surface streets in downtown Boston, it may take you a half hour or more to battle your way out to clear running on the freeways. But if you are already say on or near I-95, it’s fairly easy to zip up to I-93 and head into NH and then cut over I-89 and be in Hanover in well under 2 hours. I’ve done that multiple times - with only a moderate amount of speeding along the way.</p>
<p>haha if you see someone driving at or around the speed limit and everyone’s passing them on I-93, that would be me :)</p>
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<p>Well, the discussion is lacrosse and it’s getting teams to Foxboro Stadium not Mass. Ave., Boylston Street or even Dartmouth Street.</p>