SI's Title IX Issue

With a Zero sarcasm response. There are so few upper middle class white left that it doesn't matter. Aren't they all missing?

 

You really think every female athlete gets a full ride now?

 

D1 Women's soccer, probably the shiniest example of Title IX, only gives out 15-ish full rides. Look on any D1 team, there are usually 25 players.

 

Still wondering what the actual agenda is.

 

Same situation in college baseball in a lot of places. In baseball and soccer, and most other sports not called football or basketball, coaches have the option of giving partial rides.

What I'm getting mostly out of this thread, though, is: Titile IX is a good idea, unless it rubs up against my beliefs. But, yes, there are places where some fairly strange choices have been made in the interest of "gender equity." I'm thinking of Fresno State, where offerings include women's lacrosse, even though they're way out of the lacrosse hotbeds on the East Coast, and equestrian.

 

Cut football down to size and you have a much easier Title IX solution.

 

Certainly at the lower college levels that might be the case but at D1 level the football revenue is part of the Title IX solution.

 

The number of programs that make that kind of money is probably a lot smaller than you think and certainly not enough to throw out the idea. I don't think the idea was a forced reduction for everybody, but individual schools making the choice to drop a few football scholarships rather than cut entire programs.

 

By the DI level you mean the top 30-40 BCS schools (if that). The majority of DI schools lose money on football.

 

I wish the SI issue had at least one in-depth read on Title IX. Didn't include a substantial piece of deep journalism, just a bunch of short takes. All were interesting...none were particularly revelatory.

 

Actually, they don't. Every single team from a BCS AQ conference, plus independents Notre Dame and BYU, makes gobs of money in football, thanks to their TV contracts. And those schools make up more than half the membership if FBS football.

 

Actually, they do. DI football covers FBS and FCS. Ain't no FCS schools making any cash on the pigskin.