It's 2019, title ix has been around for 40 years and softball is easily one of the top 3 sports played by females in this country. So why are there still so many major division 1 universities that to don't have softball programs?
Who are the 5 Division 1 schools that you think it would make the most sense to have a softball program?
List them 5-1
5. Pepperdine. This would be a slam dunk, softball crazy Southern California, a top flight education and a school in the hills of Malibu. Our pitching coach, after playing at Arizona and professionally was looking for a place to earn her master's and be A graduate assistant coach, she said she would have loved to coach the waves and was shocked they didn't have a softball team
4. UC Irvine. I don't think many states in this country can produce the amount of d1 softball players year in and year out as the county of Orange. How does Orange Counties best University not have a softball team? They have plenty of space for the facilities and until they're built the school could use the legit softball stadiums at Bill Barber park or The Great Park, both in Irvine.
3. Clemson. The ACC is emerging as a softball power and with Florida State fresh off a national title it's time for the other ACC schools to get on board. Clemson has the money from their recent football success and have ling been a power in baseball. Tiger softball makes sense, especially with all the girls doing the Dabb and not having a clue who it's named after.
2. Miami. See ACC and FSU remark about Clemson and then multiply it by infinity for instate rival Miami Hurricanes. Miami has long been the state's standard bearer for college baseball so having a college softball team should be expected.
1. USC. The Trojans have twice as many National Titles in baseball as the next closest school. They are also the cross town rival of the ucla ruins, who are the most successful college softball program in the nation. USC leads all universities in National Championships in men's sports but lag way behind Stanford and ucla in women's championships and thus are third in the nation overall. In the last decade USC has added several women's athletic programs and have song of competed for national titles in them right away, softball would be no different. Southern California produces the most softball players Inn the country, nobody will argue that. It only makes sense that the University of Southern California fields a softball program