Warrior Lacrosse has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA seeking damages of more than $30 million they say will be caused under new men’s lacrosse equipment rules. The rules in question detail the size of the lacrosse stick head.


Under the new rules, the head of the stick will shrink a half inch in the middle and extend a quarter inch on the ends. The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, claims that decades of investment in design of lacrosse stick heads will be lost and their current inventory will be obsolete.


The suit alleges that the change will cost players at least $58 million to replace outdated equipment and claims that Warrior has filed the lawsuit to prevent “devastating consequences” to the sport.


“Rather than provide guidelines and parameters within which manufacturers may compete on lacrosse head designs, the new version of the rule sets arbitrary, illogical, unreasonable and overly restrictive design specifications that significantly inhibit competition and innovation,” the suit claims.


The NCAA responded in an opposition document, claiming that Warrior’s claims do not have “even facial plausibility” and stated that Warrior’s complaints had been already dismissed during a similar lawsuit filed in November 2006.