Title IX

[awefullspellare]

Wada yall think of title IX.

I personally think its screwy. It did not intend to get rid of all the mens programs, but thats what its doing. IMO the power is now on the womens side. There are generally more womens programs then mens, becuase of one world FOOTBALL. they have to figure out what to do with football. One other, thing, the most screwy, is that if ur school is 55% women and 25% of the women want to play sports, 55% of your scholarships have to be for women I think. THATS BS!!! They are now taking the oppourtunites from men, and giving them to women, and then the women dont wanna play and ruins the whole things. GRRRR.

[PopTop]

One big problem is its designers never really intended it to be about equality, yet that's what it's masked behind ... Except for some very rara cases, men's football and basketball provide the only revenue generated by sports programs at any college ... Some of the schools can also point to men's baseball as at least a break-even ... But I think that in 2001, only [I]two[/I, count 'em 1-2, women's programs across the entire NCAA had a positive cash flow, those being the women's basketball programs at Tennessee and Maryland (going on my memory on those two accounts).

I'm not saying it should be some rule that every individual sport should have to make money to stay alive ... I sorta' doubt that most of the math and English programs are huge money makers, and I'm certainly not advocating their ends ... But anyone that tells you Title IX isn't about money is only folling themselves ... Build up the women's programs, those that are generating the interest (that means NO to women's bowling and the like) ... Schools are just wastefully throwing money around at a time the economy doesn't support it ... Nobody seems to have a good idea how to implement more women's sports efficiently; they're just looking at some bottom-line number the Title IX morons give them instead of the real bottom-line numbers on the real accounting ledger.