A reasoned argument for Title IX reform

[Marcus Garvey]

The Arizona Daily Star generally sucks balls as a newspaper. One of the few talented writers they have is a sports columnist named Greg Hansen. In today's paper he wrote a piece talking about how the absolutist view held by the Federal Government toward Title IX rules is just plain absurd. It's kind of long, but worth a read. Print it up and read it on the crapper! :D

http://www.azstarnet.com/sports/160342

[ngineer]

That's been the problem with Title IX, it is open to interpretation because different schools have different emphasis within their student bodies. One cannot force one sex or the other to go out for athletic teams. The question is whether the school is providing equal opportunity for everyone to participate. Bucknell went through this the past 5 years regarding their wrestling program that was scuttled and then reinstated once the school and the alumni came up with a plan to spend equivalent money for women's sports upgrades in conjunction with the rejuvenated wrestling program. Football is what skews everything because it involves so many more athletes and costs so much more money than so many other sports, combined!

[MrTitleist]

I hate how Title IX kills wrestling programs.. you're taking away from athletes that have been recruited to that school to fulfill some absurd govt need. As is the case, when the wrestling program is cut, the athlete finds another school to transfer to that offers the program.. but no one cares because it only affects 20-30 kids per school that cuts it's program.

[BlueHen86]

Delaware dropped it's wrestling program sometime after I graduated.:mad:

[lizrdgizrd]

Well, the question is, how do we reform it? Equal number of programs for men & women rather than proportional representation?

[CollegeSportsInfo]

The Arizona Daily Star generally sucks balls as a newspaper. One of the few talented writers they have is a sports columnist named Greg Hansen. In today's paper he wrote a piece talking about how the absolutist view held by the Federal Government toward Title IX rules is just plain absurd. It's kind of long, but worth a read. Print it up and read it on the crapper! :D

http://www.azstarnet.com/sports/160342


There are benfits to Title IX. That said, there desperately need to be changes.

The system I have always banged the drum for have been treating college sports more like a business in one sense: justification. REVENUE PRODUCING sports should be exempt from Title IX. So if a sport balances it's budget and makes $0, then it is excluded. So Football and Men's basketball for most schools would not count against Title IX. For a few schools such as UConn, Women's Basketball would not count either. Same goes for Hockey for a few given schools as well a sbaseball.

Real simple: if you make money to fund your programs & scholarships, that sport should be excluded. After that, I have no reason with equal scholoships for men and women for all non-revenue producing sports.

alas, this system would be too basic and make too much sense for the NCAA to push through.

[crunifan]

A few years ago UNI had to drop their Men's Swimming/Diving and Men's soccer so that we could stay in compliance with Title IX.

[TxSt02]

There are benfits to Title IX. That said, there desperately need to be changes.

The system I have always banged the drum for have been treating college sports more like a business in one sense: justification. REVENUE PRODUCING sports should be exempt from Title IX. So if a sport balances it's budget and makes $0, then it is excluded. So Football and Men's basketball for most schools would not count against Title IX. For a few schools such as UConn, Women's Basketball would not count either. Same goes for Hockey for a few given schools as well a sbaseball.

Real simple: if you make money to fund your programs & scholarships, that sport should be excluded. After that, I have no reason with equal scholoships for men and women for all non-revenue producing sports.

alas, this system would be too basic and make too much sense for the NCAA to push through.

not really...

[ngineer]

There are benfits to Title IX. That said, there desperately need to be changes.

The system I have always banged the drum for have been treating college sports more like a business in one sense: justification. REVENUE PRODUCING sports should be exempt from Title IX. So if a sport balances it's budget and makes $0, then it is excluded. So Football and Men's basketball for most schools would not count against Title IX. For a few schools such as UConn, Women's Basketball would not count either. Same goes for Hockey for a few given schools as well a sbaseball.

Real simple: if you make money to fund your programs & scholarships, that sport should be excluded. After that, I have no reason with equal scholoships for men and women for all non-revenue producing sports.

alas, this system would be too basic and make too much sense for the NCAA to push through.

Bingo.:thumbsup: