Univ. of New Hampshire is getting rid of its women's rowing. The official line is that it has to get rid of some sports so that it can get into compliance with Title IX. Really is that it is doing a big budget cut. I wonder if this is the first women's team to be axed becasue of Title IX.
I don't understand how Title IX can possibly be used for what seems to me to be a really cheap blow to many girls. Rowing is a somewhat expensive sport, lots of coaches, lots of equipment.
The trouble with Title IX and college athletics (even when you have ADs who are not using it as an excuse, like Matt S. mentioned) is football. It is big, expensive, and has no equivalent female sport to balance the numbers. To get gender equity requires a lot of balancing to make up for the hundred-ish (male) football players.
My former college swim coach thought that football should be explicitly excluded from number crunching (since there is no way that alumni would let football disappear).
The trouble with Title IX and college athletics (even when you have ADs who are not using it as an excuse, like Matt S. mentioned) is football. It is big, expensive, and has no equivalent female sport to balance the numbers. To get gender equity requires a lot of balancing to make up for the hundred-ish (male) football players.
My former college swim coach thought that football should be explicitly excluded from number crunching (since there is no way that alumni would let football disappear).
