Attackman and former Duke star Zach Greer will enroll at Bryant for the 2009 season, making Bryant a more than legitimate threat. Former Duke coach Mike Pressler now coaches for Bryant which is believed to be the major reason Greer decided to join Bryant. With Greer on the team now is Bryant a formidable opponent up north?

Greer’s 206 goals, wow 206, is tops in all-time goals in college lacrosse. Whenever he’s on the ball crowds stand up and defenses cringe. Greer, who graduated from Duke this past spring, has one more year of eligibility left, a year in which he will go for his masters at Bryant and master the field as a part of the Bryant LAX team.

Pressler and Greer reunite after the tumulsious 2006 season in which Duke cut short the season and cut loose of Pressler. Pressler was fired as the Duke squad was left in question as to whether they could come back in the coming years. Sure enough they have making a national championship appearance last season and a semifinal last year.

This coming season will be Bryant’s first venture into Division 1 sports. They make their first apperance after being a DII school in Rhode Island. Unfortanately for Greer and the Bryant Bulldogs, they are not eligible for the playoffs until next season. Sorry Zach, I guess wait ’till you’re a part of the MLL to see you in the playoffs.

Is it time? I think so. The Olympics includes pedestrian sports such as table tennis and badminton, so why not involve a real sport that actually takes physical skill? All I’m saying is that if you can win a gold medal in ping-pong, you should be able to do the same with lacrosse.

Whenever this argument arose, the main point people would bring up is that lacrosse isn’t played as much as it is in America and Canada. To that pathetic point I say how many countries play judo, water polo, and trampoline. Trampoline?!? That’s a sport in the Olympics folks, and that always becomes my most stellar argument.

So, what does lacrosse need to become an Olympic sport? It needs fans. Lacrosse needs people behind the sport that want to see lacrosse in the Olympics as much as the athletes do. It’s growing popularity with the development of Major League Lacrosse along with a huge youth movement in which a lot of young kids are picking up the sport earlier and earlier forcing their high schools to also pick up lacrosse programs.

It seems to me that most of the team sports played in the Olympics aren’t taken seriously. They aren’t because those players don’t get paid by their clubs to play for their country. So most players either voluntarily choose to sit out or are forced to not play. So in team sports like baseball, and soccer you never get to see the world’s best, which is what the Olympics are supposed to represent. If the Olympics give the opportunity to these lacrosse guys they will not disappoint. I’m positive that John Grant and Brian Langtry would have been on the first flight to Beijing if they had the chance, but sadly they didn’t but hopefully by either the 2012 Olympics(which is pretty doubtful to get a sport instated in 4 years) or the 2016 Olympics which could fittingly end up in America in Chicago, we will see Lacrosse as an Olympic sport.