Yep.
For years, I've thought we should add women's gymnastics and men's soccer.
There's a lot of soccer talent in Texas, and to the best of my knowledge, SMU is the only D-1 school in Texas with a men's soccer team. We'd have a near monopoly as the in-state school.
To add a men's team, we'd need to add a women's team. Why not gymnastics? Carly Patterson, Nastia Liukin, and Simone Biles, the 2004, 2008, and 2016 (respectively) all-around Olympic gold medalists, were all from Texas. And again, we'd be one of the only (the only?) D-1 programs in-state.
Aside from locker rooms, we wouldn't need to build new facilities for either of these. We already have a soccer field for the women's soccer team, and the gymnastics team could probably practice/compete in Gregory. We'd need to buy them some equipment, obviously.
The demand for wrestling would be pretty far down the list, probably after things like hockey and lacrosse, and we'd have to compete for talent with OU and OSU, both of which are excellent, well-established programs.
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