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Depends on which schools are added by tf86

Michigan State and USC, definitely. Butler, not so much.

There are a number of Division 1 schools that don't play football at all. For those schools, adding men's lacrosse doesn't bump up against Title IX, or at least not to the same extent that occurs with a football school.

Moreover, a number of FBS schools have added women's lacrosse in recent years, or plan to do so in the near future. These schools are:

Akron
Arizona State
Clemson
East Carolina
Eastern Michigan
Kent State
Pitt
South Florida

Additionally, the following Division 1 non-FBS schools all are adding, or recently added, women's lacrosse without adding men's lacrosse as well:

Butler
Rhode Island
Wofford
Xavier
Youngstown State

The majority of these schools are off the beaten geographic path for men's lacrosse. Moreover, unless they added women's lacrosse programs as a means of addressing existing Title IX issues, I see no reason why, from a Title IX perspective at least, they would have been precluded from starting a men's lacrosse program in conjunction with the new women's lacrosse program.